Category: Technology
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Russian court fines Twitter for failure to remove illegal content
A local court on Thursday fined Twitter 19 million rubles (about 259,000 U.S. dollars) for its failure to remove banned content. This includes calls for unauthorised protests, increasing fines on the company to 27.9 million rubles (380,000 U.S. dollars). Twitter was fined 8.9 million rubles (121,000 dollars) in early April for the same offence according…
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ABU students win global Huawei Cloud, AI track competition
Three students of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, have won the global grand prize in cloud and artificial intelligence of the Huawei ICT Competition 2019-2020. Prof. Kabir Bala, the Vice Chancellor of the university, disclosed this during the 2019/2020 Huawei Nigeria ICT Competition Award and inauguration of the 2021/2022 Launch Ceremony in Zaria on Wednesday.…
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Pantami expresses delight as ICT contributes 6.47% to GDP in 2021 Q1
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has expressed delight at the 6.47 per cent contribution by the ICT sector to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first Quarter of 2021. Pantami expressed this in a statement issued by Dr Femi Adeluyi, IT Technical Assistant to the Minister in Abuja.…
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FG expresses grave concern over updated WhatsApp privacy policy
The federal government has expressed grave concerns over WhatsApp’s recently updated privacy policy which threatens Nigerian users, who fail to agree to it sharing users data information with Facebook and all Facebook affiliates, risking not being able to use the service at all. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami expressed the…
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IMEI issue: NCC says phone tracking ID will be auto captured without qualms
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said Nigerians are not required to submit the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of their phones. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports NCC as saying it’s system will capture IMEI automatically without any requirement for subscribers to submit same. Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC’s Director of Public Affairs made this known on…
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We need IMEI of every phone in Nigeria – NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said President Muhammadu Buhari has directed it to deploy a Device Management System, which entails keeping a repository of all mobile phones’ International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and owners of such devices in the country. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the NCC made this known in the Revised National Identity Policy…
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NCC resolves 99.2% of telecom consumer complaints in Q1 2021
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has resolved 99.2 per cent of service-related complaints received from telecom consumers across the major network operators in Q1, 2021. According to the Q1, 2021 Report on Complaint Management issued by the Consumer Affairs Bureau of the Commission, a total of 3,019 consumer complaints were received from four complaint channels…
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Privacy: NITDA searches for local alternatives to WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said it will organize a hackathon for Nigerians to pitch solutions that can provide services that will provide functional alternatives to existing global social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports this is contained in a public advisory issued by NITDA and released…
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SpaceX signs deal with Google for global high-speed Internet connectivity
Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday signed a deal with Internet giant, Google to provide high-speed broadband internet connectivity around the world. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the deal is to deliver data, cloud services, and applications, leveraging Starlink’s ability to provide high-speed broadband internet. Under the deal, SpaceX will locate Starlink ground stations within Google data center…
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People to lose $10.5 trillion to cybercriminals by 2025
People will lose a whopping total sum of $10.5 trillion to cybercriminals by the year 2025, the International Criminal Police Organization, commonly known as INTERPOL has said. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports INTERPOL made this known as it announced a new cybercrime operations desk known as African Joint Operation against Cybercrime (AFJOC). According to the law enforcement…