Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa Earlier this year, there were reports that Facebook CEO had this super ability to send messages on the social network and then take them back right out of the recipient’s inbox. At the time, it was a beta feature only availed to a few privileged members at the company. Well, it seems the company is […] Facebook Messenger now has Unsend Feature that enables you ‘take back’ what you send up to 10 mins ago Felix Omondi

Microsoft is taking a new step to make it easier to run Windows software on computers powered by Arm-designed chips, rather than Intel processors, the software giant revealed Friday. In the past,  Windows apps ran slowly on Arm-powered devices. That was a relic of the mighty duopoly of the PC era—the Intel and Microsoft together known as “Wintel.“ But that relationship has been fraying over the past few years. Microsoft is eager to move the Windows platform onto devices that are more mobile, which means bringing Windows onto the Arm chip architecture. Arm-based chips suck up less power than Intel… The post Microsoft Stabs Intel As Windows Moves To Arm Chips appeared first on Tekedia.

Listen to Gbenga Bamiji for deep insights on business. He discusses why businesses fail and what we can learn. The post Why Businesses Fail As They Grow [Video] appeared first on Tekedia.

Listen to Gbenga Bamiji for deep insights on business. He discusses why businesses fail and what we can learn. The post Business Lessons from the Suya Seller – Gbenga Bamiji appeared first on Tekedia.

To create perception demand, you need to go beyond serving customer needs and expectations to meet their needs at the level of perceptions. Perception Demand is very risky: you think without much learning curves decoupled from aligning scaling and market demand. But when you add “Stimulating” before it, you have a construct, Stimulating Perception Demand, which focuses on existing trajectories in the markets and how to take them to the next level, and around there massively get many fans to connect. Here, you have seen how the products in the markets are doing. You just want to take them to the… The post Operational Data + Experience Data = Perception Service appeared first on Tekedia.

GIGM has the first top-down transport management system in the country, a 600-bus fleet and over 2000 employees. The post GIGM Is Nigeria’s Most Technologically Advanced Road Transport Company appeared first on TechCabal.

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa The ‘polling booths’ are open for public voting for Google Impact Challenge Africa that seeks to support startups and ventures from across Africa that are solving societal problems. The competition has startups from Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya going head-to-head against each other for the top four slots for each country. The 12 startups (four […] Public voting for Google Impact Challenge Africa opens today through to Nov 25 Milicent Atieno

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa The main attraction to the E3 2019, was the prospect that Sony will be unveiling its next console, the PlayStation 5. But guess what, that is not going to happen. There will be no PS5 being launched at this year’s E3 conference. In fact, Sony will be giving the E3 conference a wide berth; and […] Sony skipping E3 2019 and it could be because of PlayStation 5 Felix Omondi

I enjoy moments in electronics labs. They are a big part of my weeks. I build and test circuits therein. My week is divided into three areas: advisory services (startups and corporations), electronics, and software. For the electronics, I work on designs. Then we also have a big business with Intel Corporation as one of the two programmable microprocessor partners in continental Africa. Most times, it is reviewing designs from partners and helping on hardware descriptive coding. Then, we test for them. In this business, we control a lion’s share of the highly specialized market in Africa. I pioneered this… The post Unlocking Aba Opportunities with SEZ to Double Nigeria’s GDP in a Decade appeared first on Tekedia.

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa It might not be big news, given there are now more powerful image software compared to Microsoft Paint. However, a good number of users began drawing digital images on Microsoft Paint at a younger age. You might be interested to know Microsoft Paint has received an update that will make it recover any unsaved work. […] Good news! Microsoft Paint will automatically recover your unsaved images Felix Omondi

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa Recently, Africa has shown to be a fertile ground for Cryptocurrency with several countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe among others embracing its adoption. There are several reasons to this boom. One of them is the fact that African governments no longer impose stringent regulations to Cryptocurrency. This might be […] Reasons for the Growing Bitcoin market in Africa Felix Omondi

iPhone is an innovation and discovery machine – we keep learning about it. Apple focuses on every detail in iPhone to bring us the best experience in a smartphone. Yet, some interesting features have been overlooked by many iPhone users. This infographic, courtesy of IOTransfer – the creator of iPhone Manager –  provides some tips and tricks to discover the best phone yet. The post Learn These iPhone Tips and Tricks appeared first on Tekedia.

by Nnamdi Odumody One of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals is the provision of quality education for everyone. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) set a benchmark of 26 percent of national or state budget to fund education. Sadly in the developing world like Africa this directive is not adhered to which is why African states are lagging behind in Human Development Indices index. Quality relevant education is the key to the sustainable development of any nation or state. Singapore’s success as an Asian economic miracle without natural mineral resources is due to the high emphasis its government… The post Rethinking Education in Southeast Nigeria appeared first on Tekedia.

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa Whenever you open the Status tab on your WhatsApp, you see your contacts updates in chronological order. That is, the first one to be posted is the first you are going to see; though as it works out, you are more likely to see the most recently posted as it will appear at the top. […] WhatsApp to start Ranking your Friends’ Statuses based on how often you interact Felix Omondi

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa The Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) has approved a partnership between Kenya-based telecommunication company Telkom Kenya and Project Loon. Project Loon is an initiative by Google to connected rural and remote areas underserved by telecommunication infrastructure to access the internet. Project Loon uses high-flying hot air balloons to beam down the internet connection. Doing so […] Google’s Project Loon partnership with Telkom Kenya approved by telecommunications regulator Felix Omondi

I woke up and it was an email from the Vice Chancellor: “On behalf of the University Senate, Faculty, Staff and Students, I write to invite you to deliver the 15th Public Lecture of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria”.  The University Public Lecture is a celebrated ceremony in university systems where scholars present topical issues. Within seconds, I replied, partly, “I accept”. I had left FUTO years ago. I could not understand how my professors could vote for me to return in this special way. Every faculty would like to mount that podium for the rarity of UPL: one… The post Audition for the Best Job; Get an Ikenga appeared first on Tekedia.

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa For some 70 startups from across the African continent, today is a big day. The day they get to present their businesses in front of Africa and the world for a chance to not just get funding, but also get noticed by investors, buyers, and partners. And it is all happening today and tomorrow at […] Today’s D-Day for the 70 African Startups pitching at AfricArena happening today and tomorrow in Cape Town Felix Omondi

Hakeem Fahm, the Commissioner for Science and Technology in Lagos State described technology as a key driver of efficiency in any successful organisation. He said this at the graduation ceremony for 22 Nigerians that successful completed a three-month intensive digital training and certification programme based on SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting and SAP Activate Project Management. According […]

Are you a Nigerian FinTech startup? You are invited to apply to develop a payroll management solution for SMEs to be implemented by First City Monument Bank (FCMB). In March, Passion Incubator partnered the Swedish Embassy to launch Collaborate, a platform that allows corporates to present challenges, and startups already building solutions along those lines to help […]

Chinese tech giant Huawei has announced plans to build its Public Cloud in South Africa to provide cloud services to all sub-Saharan African countries. It described the move as geared towards accelerating its cloud business across the world. Huawei will hold a launching ceremony on 14th November in Cape Town for its first African station […]

Courtesy of IOTransfer, the creator of iPhone Manager, here are awesome eight fun facts about iPhone. Since its first release in 2007, Apple iPhone has brought countless revolution in the Smartphone market, obsoleting every other smartphone on the planet in every way that mattered. It changed the way how people used a cell phone, from the way we text/take a photo/view pictures, to the way we play games and listen to music. So far, iPhone’s evolution is connected with more than 200 registered patents, which is quite remarkable for just one single phone. The post Eight Facts About iPhone [Infographic] appeared first on Tekedia.

Innov8tiv Innov8tiv - Blacks In Technology in USA, UK, Caribbean Islands & Africa There are many reasons why you would want to partition your computer’s hard drive. The most common reason is to safeguard your files in case your PC fails to boot up for one reason or the other. In which case, it might require a clean install of the operating system and a possible partitioning of […] How to partition Hard Disk in Windows 10, 8.1, 7 Felix Omondi

I have explained Conglomerate Tax using Dangote Group: governments pay taxes to conglomerates to have them in their domains. Simply, with the power vested on conglomerates by markets, they get governments to support their future ambitions in ways no other entity could. They have that ability because they focus on fixing the upstream challenges in economies where they operate because they have accumulated more capabilities than anyone. Yes, as Dangote Group builds a refinery, it could extract more goodies from governments than a man building petrol filling stations since government can easily find builders of petrol filing stations over people… The post Amazon Taxes Virginia and New York on HQ2, The Power of Conglomerate Tax appeared first on Tekedia.

Through an unlikely alliance, the founders of Helium Health are using their product to improve outcomes for healthcare service delivery in Nigeria. The post An Unlikely Band Of Entrepreneurs Are Reducing Cost, Wait Times In Nigerian Hospitals appeared first on TechCabal.

I like designs and electronics is my passion. In junior secondary, I fell in love with electricity. But every person wanted me to study medicine (a great call) but I was not a fan. The closest I got to medicine was writing JAMB in first year, while in Federal University of Technology Owerri, just to prove that it was not about any difficulty of getting in. University of Nigeria Nsukka offered admission for MBBS but I only revealed to family a day after the matriculation. My message to you today is this: Do all to discover your passion. But do… The post Discover Your Passion appeared first on Tekedia.