TECHNOLOGY
Iphone Users To Receive $65 Payouts From Apple
Apple is expected to pay out $500 million to iPhone users to resolve a long-running lawsuit accusing the company of purposefully slowing down customers' batteries. The 'battery-gate' scam was dubbed 'one of the greatest consumer frauds in history' since it compelled people to purchase new iPhone models. Despite continuing to deny any wrongdoing, Apple consented to the settlement in 2020, which...
Apple’s New Iphone 15 Release Date Revealed
Apple's next iPhone model is only a few weeks away from being released and available for purchase. The iPhone 15 is scheduled to be unveiled at Apple's Cupertino, California headquarters on Sept. 12 or 13, with the next phone going on sale around Sept. 22. The iPhone 15 could include some of the most significant design changes for an Apple smartphone...
Twitter Unveils New Logo, Removes Bird
Twitter launched its new logo on Monday, replacing the blue bird with a white X on a black background as the Elon Musk-owned company moves toward rebranding as X. The social media network’s website showed the company’s new logo, but its URL was still showing as twitter.com and the blue “Tweet” button was visible, suggesting the rebrand was not yet...
Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Meta’s ‘Copycat’ Threads App
The microblogging site, Twitter has written to Meta threatening to take legal action over its new app, Threads. ABN TV reports that the app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday and will run with no ads for now, but its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns. In...
How To Sign Up For Threads, Meta’s New Twitter Competitor
The giant tech company, Meta, will officially launch its own microblogging app, Threads on Thursday. With the structure of its service, Threads will ultimately serve as a competitor to the popular social media platform, Twitter. The launch comes in the wake of a new feature introduced by the latter, which limits the number of tweets users can see per day. While the...
Facebook, Instagram Users To Pay $12 Monthly
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will launch a paid subscription service starting at $11.99 a month allowing users to verify their accounts, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Sunday, following a similar move by Elon Musk at Twitter. Meta Verified, which will roll out first in Australia and New Zealand this week, will let users “verify your account with a government ID,...
Eight Hot Networking Technologies For 2023
Innovative technologies are designed to make networks faster, smarter, more secure, and easier to manage. Despite the challenges posed by economic turmoil, epidemics, and political upheaval, network researchers are continuing to blaze new trails in innovation, performance, management, and security. In sum, 2023 is shaping up as a year of network evolution and transformation. Here are eight network technologies you will...
Elon Musk Auctions Off Twitter Blue Bird Statue For $100,000
A Twitter bird statue fetched $100,000 on Wednesday as Elon Musk auctioned off furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment and more from the tech firm’s downtown San Francisco headquarters. An online auction of “surplus corporate office assets of Twitter” that lasted slightly more than 24 hours also featured a 10-foot neon light in the shape of Twitter’s bird logo, which brought in...
Masari Urges Mechanics To Embrace Modern Technology
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has charged mechanics in the state to embrace modern skills and technology while addressing automotive issues. The world, today, according to Masari, is moving faster hence issues concerning automobiles have gone beyond the work of spanner or hammer but computers and brains. Masari gave the charge on Tuesday when he performed the foundation laying ceremony...
WhatsApp Will Stop Working On 49 Phones From December 31 (SEE FULL LIST)
WhatsApp, a major social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg will from December 31, 2022 block at least 49 mobile phones. Majority of the phones on the list are extremely old, and it’s likely that only a very small number of people use them. Some of them are actually so old that nobody may be using the phone. This merely indicates...
