The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr. Kenneth Ashigbey, has clarified that the previous SIM card registration exercise was not useless but rather incomplete. His remarks come after the Minister-Designate...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications, Dr. Kenneth Ashigbey, has clarified that the previous SIM card registration exercise was not useless but rather incomplete. His remarks come after the Minister-Designate for Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovation, Sam Nartey George, announced plans for a new SIM...
Households are being warned of the five biggest ‘energy-draining’ appliances that you should ‘never’ leave on standby. Many people leave their devices on standby because it is quicker to use them when needed. But although it may seem more convenient to leave frequently-used appliances like TVs, computers and game...
US President Donald Trump has signed a legal settlement that will see Facebook and Instagram owner Meta pay out roughly $25m (£20m). Trump sued the social media giant and its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, in 2021 over the suspension of his accounts after the 6 January Capitol riots that...
Social media giant Meta has offered to pay up to $5,000 (£4,040) to popular creators in the United States who join Facebook and Instagram. It says those joining from “third-party social apps” will get cash based on “an evaluation of your social presence”. Though it does not mention TikTok...
TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect. A message appearing on the app for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning “you can’t use TikTok for now”. “We are fortunate that...
We’ve all been there: you’re tidying up your WhatsApp chats and, in a moment of haste, accidentally delete a conversation or an important message. Perhaps it’s a phone number or a link you really needed. It happens to the best of us, especially when we’re multitasking or trying to...
Today, both Android and iOS are robust, versatile, and capable mobile operating systems that can do virtually anything you need them to — well, almost anything, if Apple would play nice. The European Union has been taking Apple to task on everything from USB-C to alternative app stores and...
Phones hold so much of our digital lives — emails, social media and bank accounts, photos and more. As a result, if our phones ever get stolen or lost, we can face major problems. In some places, phone thefts have increased. Britain, for example, has some 200 phones stolen...
Google has announced that Twi, one of Ghana’s most widely spoken languages, is now available on Google Voice Search, Gboard talk-to-type, and Google Translate voice input. This inclusion is part of Google’s expansion of African language support, which now covers 15 new languages across the continent, enhancing accessibility for...
Tired of being forced to both remember and type in passwords to log in somewhere? Try a passkey: the FIDO Alliance-developed authentication method that was quickly adopted by the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft. Though they aren’t quite the standard across the industry just yet, passkeys are slowly becoming the “solution” to passwords,...