TECHNOLOGY

NCC To Assist In Rebuilding Telecommunication Facilities Destroyed by Boko Haram

Daily Dispatch March 5, 2017

The Nigerian Communications Commission said on Sunday it was willing to assist GSM service providers in rebuilding telecommunication facilities destroyed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East. Hajiya Hafsat Lawan, the NCC Assistant Director, Legal and Regulatory Services, made

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32 million accounts accessed using ‘forged cookies’ – Yahoo

Daily Dispatch March 2, 2017

Yahoo Inc, which disclosed two massive data breaches last year, said that about 32 million user accounts were accessed by intruders in the last two years using forged cookies. The company said some of the latest intrusions could be connected to the “same state-sponsored actor believed to be responsible for the 2014 breach” in which […]

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5G ‘lightning’ fast mobile network to be unveil by 2020

Daily Dispatch February 24, 2017

A working group of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), said it has completed a cycle of studies on the key performance requirements of the next generation mobile networks (5G technology) for the International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-2020 systems. The ITU Secretary-General, Houlin Zhao, in a statement, said 5G mobile systems would provide lightning

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Stallion rolls out made in Nigeria Xcent

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2017

Stallion Hyundai Motors Nigeria Limited has rolled out made-in-Nigeria B-segment Hyundai Grand Xcent family sedans. According to Daily Trust, this it said was to cater for growing demand for functional cars and cushion imminent scarcity occasioned by the government’s ban on importation of vehicles through the land borders. The 1.25Litre Kappa Dual VTVT capacity saloon […]

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NCC Intercepts Pirated Movie Copies Worth N2m, Arrests 5 Suspects

Daily Dispatch February 23, 2017

The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) in collaboration with the police in Lagos arrested five suspects for alleged piracy of copies of a movie valued at N2million. The NCC Lagos Zonal Manager, Mr Obi Ezeilo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday that the suspects were arrested at the Computer Village, Ikeja. […]

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GM Plans To Build, Test Thousands Of Self-Driving Bolts In 2018 – Sources

Daily Dispatch February 18, 2017

General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018, two sources familiar with the automaker’s plans said this week. It is expected to be the largest such test of fully autonomous vehicles by any major automaker before 2020, when several […]