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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 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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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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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Designed for iPhone and iPad users, the new Switch website explains everything from transferring photos and music to setting up email and messaging. Google has launched a website called Switch that has one goal in mind: educate Apple iPhone and iPad users on how they can easily move their data
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Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork After giving us all a taste of Android L in June 2014, at the I/O developer conference, Google is finally releasing the next version of Android to the world, version number 5.0, code-named Lollipop. The release, which comes nearly one year after 4.4 KitKat, ushers in a brand-new design throughout
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Foolow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Written By John Lynn I’ve long been interested in voice recognition together with EHR software. In many ways it just makes sense to use voice recognition in healthcare. There was so much dictation in healthcare, that you’d think that the move to voice recognition would be the obvious move. The
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork FlickPay, Snapscan and Zapper might sound like a foreign language – yet these are the apps used by a fast growing group of consumers in South Africa who have bought into the world of mobile payment. Mobile phone providers, merchants, financial institutions and consumers represent the fast-growing ecosystem centred on
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