In a season filled with new phone releases such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and the Google Pixel 4, the new iPhone 11, 11 Pro and Pro Max impressed me early on. Apple packed its latest phones with a new ultrawide-angle camera, an A13 processor, Night Mode for photos, iOS 13 and one of the best all-around camera systems found on any phone today. Plus, the...
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WhatsApp Launches First Digital Payments Option
Facebook on Monday added a digital payments feature to its WhatsApp messaging service, starting in Brazil but with an eye to expanding around the world. WhatsApp users in Brazil can use the encrypted mobile messaging service to send money or make purchases, Facebook said in a blog post. It marked the first time the payments...
Facebook will let users opt out of political advertisements
Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in an opinion piece for USA Today, in which he discussed Facebook’s efforts to prevent election interference. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company will let users opt out of political ads and will help register 4 million voters for the 2020 election. Zuckerberg made the announcement in an opinion...
Google Play Music Is Shutting Down. Here’s How to Save Your Tunes.
In a few steps, you can transfer files, including playlists, and uploads, to YouTube Music and podcasts to Google Podcasts Fans of the streaming service Google Play Music may soon want to hold a moment of silence. Google has announced that the app will be shut down and replaced by the YouTube Music app, which...
Sterling Bank launches OneBank App
Sterling Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading digital bank has launched a new, unique but simple banking application that can be used for all banking and payment transactions by its customers. Chief Digital Officer of the bank, Mr. Olayinka Oni has said the new app is an affirmation of the bank’s position as the most innovative bank in Nigeria, adding that the app is also in line with the bank’s forward...
Facebook launched its Bitmoji-like Avatars. Here’s how to make yours
Facebook launched its Avatar feature this past week in the US. Say goodbye to the days of only being able to express your emotions through the generic sad, happy, angry or thumbs up emojis on Facebook.Facebook rolled out its Avatar feature to users in the US this week, after launching it last year in other...
APPLE DETAILS ITS APPROACH TO SAFETY STORES, PLANS TO REOPEN
Apple’s head of retail Deidre O’Brien has posted a letter on the company’s website detailing how it plans to safely restart operations at its retail stores. Apple shut all of its stores outside Greater China in March as COVID-19 spread worldwide; all the Greater China stores reopened that same month, while Apple is still in...
BREAKING: iPhone, Android device may tell owners when COVID-19 carrier is nearby
Apple and Google are partnering to add technology to iPhone and Android devices which will alert a user if they’ve come into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Quoting Bloomberg, WWLP reports that the technology, known as contact-tracing, is designed to curb the spread of coronavirus by telling users if they should quarantine after coming...
NCC TELLS NIGERIANS TO IGNORE 5G NETWORK RUMORS
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the telecoms industry regulator has called on Nigerians to disregard information making the rounds that telecoms operators were laying 5G cables in Lagos and Kano, in readiness to switch on their 5G network. The NCC described the information as misleading and called on Nigerians to disregard it.The purported information that...
BREAKING: ADOBE ANNOUNCES AL TOOLBOX FOR BETTER EXPERIENCE
Most companies don’t have the personnel to do AI well, so they turn to platform vendors like Adobe for help. Like other platforms, it has been building AI into its product set for several years now, but wanted to give marketers a set of tools that take advantage of some advanced AI capabilities out of...