Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork Two surveys – one low-tech and one high-tech – gathered data on phone habits among market traders and mobile bankers. A recent study by telecoms firm Ericsson predicts there will be more than 635m mobile telephone subscriptions in Africa by the end of the year, with this set to rise […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfriaNetwork.org Nigeria is no longer the preferred destination for oil exploration in Africa, the Managing Director\Chief Executive, Total Upstream Company in Nigeria, Elisabeth Proust, has said. Proust attributed this to stiff competition from East Africa with large volumes of gas discovered in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Angola. According to her, these
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Lytro has opened up its light-field technology platform for companies to develop custom cameras. NASA and the Department of Defense are among the first to jump on board. Lytro could soon be coming to a space mission near you. The company behind the light-field camera of the same name has
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Mozilla has revealed that the Firefox OS will soon expand to Africa. The Firefox OS ecosystem has gained support from three new key partners in the region: Airtel, MTN South Africa and Tigo, operated by Millicom, are the first carriers working with Mozilla to soon bring first Firefox OS smartphones
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Today, companies have apps and websites. Tomorrow, they’ll let their customers link electronically in a new way with if-this-then-that actions, IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets predicts. DUBLIN — If IFTTT Chief Executive Linden Tibbets gets his way, your house’s lights will blink off and on when the FedEx delivery truck arrives
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A USERNAME and password combination has long been the standard security mechanism for online accounts. But that method just isn’t cutting it anymore. Huge data breaches, in which hackers gain access to personal information, have risen sharply in the last few years. And consumers have named identity theft their No.
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Dr. Rick Sacra, a missionary who contracted Ebola in Liberia this August, was first treated there. Each nurse on the ward cared for 15 or 20 patients, and none could work for more than an hour at a time because the protective gear was so suffocatingly hot. They never drew
Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Arriving some months after its initial introduction, Google Fit aims to track a variety of Android users activities. First announced at Google I/O 2014, Google Fit is finally available for Android users everywhere. Offered as an Android app, the client tracks a host of user activities, including walking, running, and
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Mr. Ibrahima Cisse Bio Senior VP Promotions, Chief Protocol Officer and Secretary, Go Africa Network Inc. (Non-profit) and ASG Global Trade Inc. Mr. Ibrahima Cisse has with over 25 years of experience in Health, Human Services and Wellness in the New York Metro area which entities such as African Services Committee, Harlem Hospital and
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The New York Police Department will begin equipping all of its officers with smartphones and outfitting many police cars with tablet computers in an effort to modernize the nation’s largest police force, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced on Thursday. The program, the N.Y.P.D. Mobility Initiative, will distribute 41,000 devices
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