TECHNOLOGY

The Kosmos Innovation Center on Thursday hosted a second round of business plan pitches at the ISSER auditorium at the University of Ghana, Legon. The first in the series of three business plan pitches was held last month on April 28. At Thursday’s session, 16 teams pitched their proposed business plans which aim to address business challenges in a wide ...

Busy has launched the second phase of its e-learning and social portal, JUMP. Branded JUMP Academy, the addition to the online educational portal sees the inclusion of audio-visual materials covering various academic and professional courses put together by experienced professionals and lecturers tailored to the local curriculum. JUMP Academy has been added to the Education category of the portal www.jump.com.gh. ...

The 2016 co-winner for the Tigo Digital Change-makers’ competition, Ernestina Appiah, has organized a one-day coding session for over 400 school children drawn from basic and Junior High schools in the Greater Accra Metropolis. Themed ‘Ghana Code Day’ Appiah brought together app developers from Mobile Web Ghana, Leti Arts among several other experts to teach the children various applications including ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard University—the school he dropped out of to start the pioneering social network—to urge its graduating class to help create a new social safety net in order to allow creative risk-taking. The 33-year-old tech founder of the world’s largest social networking company said he would never have been able to risk leaving the elite ...

That would be Google’s 10th annual developers’ conference. Like most devcons these days, its primary audience is software writers. But the opening keynote unveiled lots of developments that even non-nerds can understand: new features coming soon to Google products. CEO Sundar Pichai opened his keynote speech with an observation: That Google (GOOG, GOOGL) may have begun life as a search ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – One of Harvard University’s most famous dropouts, Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg, returns on Thursday to the Ivy League school to address its graduating class. The 33-year-old tech titan, who dropped out the college to found the pioneering social network company, has been on a nostalgia trip during the week leading up to Harvard’s commencement. On ...

We’ve all got smartphones these days, and almost everything we do on them requires using an app. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could make extra money just for using them? Well, you can. You’re not going to get rich by downloading mobile apps, but you can use these to earn a little extra money every month. Considering some of them ...

LONDON — On Wednesday, one of the most hotly anticipated gadgets of the year finally hit store shelves in the UK. No, not the latest iPhone, or an Amazon Echo smart speakers. I’m talking about the new Nokia 3310. The 3310, originally launched in 2000, was a cult classic — hardy, with a long battery life, and an iconic design. ...

A group of hackers was able to defeat the iris scanner in the Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone using relatively common supplies, creating concerns that biometric logins may not be as foolproof a security measure as once believed. The German hacking collective Chaos Computer Club revealed Monday it was able to gain access to a user’s Galaxy S8 with a MacGyver-like ...

Microsoft has launched a “faster, more powerful” Surface Pro tablet, with a battery life of 13.5 hours. The device, which weighs 770g (1.69lb) and has a 31cm (12.3in) screen, will cost from $799 in the US and £799 in the UK. Microsoft Surface boss Panos Panay told the BBC it had been “completely redesigned inside out”, and would be more ...