TECHNOLOGY

An Ethiopian media owner and online activist known for his active use of Facebook has been blocked by the platform. It is not the first time Facebook is blocking Jawar Mohammed’s account on the basis of hyperactivity – “posting too fast,” as they chose to put it. Jawar on Wednesday confirmed via his verified Twitter account that he had been ...

Tech giant, Huawei Technologies, has won the 2018 GSMA awards for its outstanding contribution to the mobile industry. The award was presented at a special ceremony, where Huawei was recognized for decades of advocating new technology standards, driving digital transformation, and building out the digital ecosystem. At the ceremony, Ken Hu, Rotating and Acting CEO at Huawei, accepted the award ...

A startup that licenses the Nokia phone brand has unveiled a new version of the 8110, a curved mobile phone that was first released in 1996 and featured in “The Matrix.” The phone, which is offered in banana yellow and black, will sell for €79 ($97). It comes loaded with a new version of the game Snake, Finnish startup HMD ...

A businessman has taken Google to the High Court in London in what is being seen as a landmark case over “the right to be forgotten”. He is challenging Google’s decision not to remove a criminal conviction he has from the 1990s from search results. People can ask for online information to be removed from searches if they feel it ...

Germany is investigating a security breach to its defence and interior ministries’ private networks, a government spokesman has confirmed. A notorious Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear, or APT28, is being widely blamed in German media. They are thought to be behind a number of cyber-attacks on the West, including breaches in the 2016 US election. The hack was ...

Lifestyle site Little Things says it has had to close after changes to Facebook’s news feed algorithms “decimated” its business. The closure of the female-focused publishing business will result in the loss of 100 jobs. The company focused on a mix of “feel-good news” and videos. Since launching in 2014, it attracted 12 million followers on Facebook. But the company ...

 A smartwatch that uses the back of its wearer’s hand as a display is on show at the Mobile World Congress tech expo in Barcelona. The gadget manages to squeeze a projector into the device’s side to offer something unique to the wearable tech market.   Source:BBC Share on: WhatsApp

Scientists say they have observed a signature on the sky from the very first stars to shine in the Universe. They did it with the aid of a small radio telescope in the Australian outback that was tuned to detect the earliest ever evidence for hydrogen. This hydrogen was in a state that could only be explained if it had ...

Monetizing an app is a tricky business because most people expect to be able to download a new app for their phone without paying. The problem, of course, is that as an app developer, you need to be paid for all your hard work. It doesn’t do you much good to invest countless hours creating an app if you aren’t ...

*Discussions on artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality and the latest gadgets including smartphones are some of the things one can expect from this year’s Mobile World Congress, Europe’s biggest annual technology industry gathering.* AI Telecom operators are looking to artificial intelligence as a potential money-spinner to combat stagnating mobile service revenues as once-lucrative features ...