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Specspricenigeriasitelogo 1 Hey Friend , Here are the top consumer tech stories of last week (23rd -29th Oct). Apologies for the late delivery , i had a very hectic weekend. *** 1) iTel Mobile celebrated 10 years anniversary with launch of dual-camera smartphones The Era of Two Early last week , iTel mobile celebrated 10 years of existence in style by launching their first set of dual-camera smartphones ; iTel S32, S32 LTE and S12. At an event held in Lagos , iTel revealed they sold over 50 million devices in 2016 , making them one of the biggest smartphones brands in Africa. The iTel S12 is a budget android device with 5.0 inch display , 1GB RAM and dual 5MP front selfie camera. iTel S12 Key specs : ▪ Display size: 5.0-inch screen ▪ Type: TFT capacitive touchscreen ▪ Back-mounted Fingerprint scanner ▪ OS: Android 7.1 Nougat ▪ Processor: 1.3GHz quad core ▪ 8MP back camera ▪ 5MP + 5MP front camera ...

10 reasons why your Android battery is charging slowly and how to fix them. 10 reasons why your battery is charging slowly and how to fix them: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10207874183153947&id=1276903190 You can remember a time when it didn’t take all night to charge your phone. Back in those golden days, Android’s battery meter went from a pixel-wide strip of red to a fat green bar in a quarter of an hour. Nowadays,however, your poor phone takes ages to recharge, and you’re constantly scrambling from one charge session to the next. Or maybe your phone has always been a snail- paced charger, constantly left in the dust by your friends’ devices. Whatever your experience, it’s time to finally put your smartphone under a diagnostic microscope and get to the root of its slow-charging issue. Odds are your phone is suffering from one of these ten ailments, and we’re going to show you how to fix it if possible. We’re g...

7 FACTS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT BLACK FRIDAY Jumia Black Friday 2017 is almost here!!! You can tell we are very excited!  Think you know everything about Black Friday? Here are some facts you may never have heard of. BLACK FRIDAY WAS ONCE A STOCK MARKET TERM It was first used as far back as the nineteenth century, September 24th, 1869 to be specific when the price of gold plummeted.   Black Friday used to refer to stock market crashes. IT WAS POPULARISED BY THE POLICE The US Philadephia Police made the term popular in the 1960s. They used it to describe the overwhelming traffic congestion they had to contend with during throughout the weekend. A US PRESIDENT WAS ONCE PETITIONED OVER BLACK FRIDAY President Franklin Roosevelt’s office was once flooded with messages from concerned citizens. They demanded a change in the chosen date for Thanksgiving which invariably influenced Black Friday. IT BECAME A RECOGNISED TERMINOLOGY IN THE 1990S. Black Friday became a t...

PHONE SECURITY ADVICE The more technology advancement makes our day to day activities become easier and faster, the more vulnerable we have become to cyber attacks. Cyber criminals are growing in numbers and becoming smarter day by day. Whereas, the effect of cybercrime can be extremely devastating for victims, especially when it has to do with financial reasons. Moreover, due to its light size and handling, we find it easier doing internet related activities on mobile devices than personal computers. Our chat with clients (vital contents), push mails, banking transaction alerts, important files, contacts, notes, all these are vital things we can't afford to loose for whatever reasons. Cybercrime include internet fraud, hacking, online scams, identity theft, email spam and phishing, online trading scams, ATM fraud, wire fraud, counterfeiting and forgery, attacks on computer systems and illegal online content. In other word, anything that has to do with illegal use of internet is...

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BRACE YOURSELVES! BLACK FRIDAY IS COMING! When the clouds are dark and dawn billows with a promise of mouth-watering deals, It is Jumia Black Friday! Maybe you’ve heard, or maybe you have not just heard enough! Black Friday is the new black that is turning our heads around. And we cant just wait!! Black Friday is that time of year where you get to pay little or nothing to get products and deals of a lifetime! Yes…You heard me right? It is a deal that can happen at only one place at the same time. Jumia, your number one retailer of course in care of me (Jumia sales consultant) Here are few things to do before Black Friday: Budget: It is definitely not a joke! Your account can practically run dry while checking out deals on the Jumia website. If you don’t want to order so many goods and leave nothing to celebrate Christmas with, or pay for the remaining carted goods; please budget. I am begging you and here to put you through and manage your order while y...

* Red Alert 2.0 Trojan is out to get your banking login * Red Alert 2.0 Trojan is an Android malware whose sole purpose is to steal your banking and social logins from your phone. A Trojan horse, or Trojan, is any malicious computer programme (in this case a mobile application) that appears harmless but tricks users of its true intent so they download/install and use it. It may provide unauthorised access to your device or steal sensitive information. How Red Alert 2.0 Trojan Works Red Alert 2.0 is hidden in plain site in third-party app stores as fake versions of legitimat banking or social networking mobile apps. You could run a search for XYZ bank and find an app that looks exactly like the XYZ bank app that you know. You would install it without realising that you were installing a fake. When you launch the app, of course, it presents you with what appears to be your regular bank app login menu. Should you proceed to enter your login details, voila! They are sent to the hacker...

When will smartphones be intelligent? Many tech businesses these days are investing heavily in developing artificial intelligence, and with good reason. Artificial intelligence can potentially evolve much more quickly than human intelligence and therefore find solutions to problems much more efficiently. We’re not quite there yet though.  In fact it may be a few decades before we get any artificial intelligent constructs that can match the general intelligence of humans… well, some humans.  Right now we’ve got some basic constructs performing narrow intelligence tasks.  Which is to say, they can solve very specific problems. If/Then Rules For most of the age of computers, calculations were solved using rules that were pre-programmed into the computer. We started with basic math, then moved up from there. Even today smartphone graphic user interfaces are still hand coded around rules.  “If user taps this button, then do this.”  Th...