Author: Akeem

These days, becoming an entrepreneur could be said to be a lot more accessible than it has in the past. The internet has opened up a world of opportunity, as has the fast-paced evolution of technology. That said, nobody said that it was easy becoming a successful business person, so here’s some essential technologies that every entrepreneur needs to get them well on the way...

Visa has announced plans to deploy its tokenisation and mPOS services in Nigerian market. The service is already available for financial institutions in Europe since mid-April 2015, is part of Visa’s developed service to meet an increasing demand from consumers to use their latest smartphones and wearable devices for payments. Speaking at #VisaTechFeed, a Visa Card-Bloggers meeting, Mr. Ade Ashaye, country manager, West Africa at Visa...

Something rather interesting is happening at the Gmail.com domain right now. Google has started notifying users of its experimental ‘Inbox By Gmail’ service that this has replaced their Gmail account… The pop-up appears when Inbox users login and states “Thanks for trying Inbox! To make it easier we’ve updated Gmail to redirect you here”. In plain URL terms this means the standalone inbox.google.com address for the...

This is where we say that technology meets internet data speed, and the latest technology in the making is the LiFi technology that is said to offer internet data speed that is 100 times faster than your WiFi technology. Here we are talking of whopping internet data transmission of 22GB per second download speed from the laboratory test conducted; and if you know what that means,...

Not long ago, Samsung announced that it has started mass producing of 12Gb LPDDR4 RAM chips using its 20nm process technology, being the first company on the globe to achieve the feat. As Samsung itself notes in its press release, this will allow the creation of smartphones with 6GB of RAM. If these numbers don't seem to add up, then you should note the difference between...

First of all, you might want to ask; what is a virtual pre-paid MasterCard? Virtual pre-paid MasterCard is almost the same thing with your normal pre-paid (reloadable) MasterCard, but unlike your normal pre-paid MasterCard that is physical and tangible, the virtual pre-paid MasterCard is not a physical card. With virtual pre-paid MasterCard, you are only supplied with all the major card details needed for online transactions; card...

Scientists from the University of Washington have developed a technology called Power Over Wi-Fi, which will allow gadgets to charge through a Wi-Fi network . According to the authors of the project , with the help of Wi-Fi network they managed to secure a power which can transfer sufficient energy to your phone. In addition, the technology known as Power Over Wi-Fi which looks like...

When you’re looking for a new smartphone, just what is it that appeals? What is it that draws you in and makes you want to buy it? Is it the quality of the screen? The construction? The camera quality? Just what is it that you’re looking for from an advanced smartphone? Oo, ooh! I know! I’ve always wanted my smartphone to double up as a chopping...

1. Poor location; its been said over and over again; location is everything! We were swamped on every side by other viewing centres who had been in the business way before ours. Because of the way humans are wired, it’s not always easy for the customers to switch to a new brand, or product. Despite the projectors and other unique value propositions we were offering,...

Despite the fact that there is a new, ambitious tech start-up launched pretty much every day, there has never been a better time to try to get one off the ground. Of course, it's easy to look to the famous start-up successes from the US as an example of how to go about things, but the reality doesn't have to be all about spending money.   01....