Author: ITPulse

The claim by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof, Isa Pantami that Nigeria recorded 12.99 million cyberattacks in four days during the presidential election has continued to generate reactions, especially in the cybersecurity circle. Prof. Pantami had on Tuesday in a statement signed by his spokesperson, Uwa Sulaiman, disclosed that 12.99 million cyberattacks were recorded during election week. According to the statement, there were 6.99 million attacks on February 25th, which was election day with those attacks including a series of hacking attempts such as Distributed Denial of Service, email and IPS attacks, SSH login attempts, brute force…

Sweetgreen, the Government of Rwanda, Michigan Medicine and more will be a few of the First Customers to deploy Zipline’s New Platform  Zipline today unveiled its new platform that provides quiet, fast and precise autonomous delivery directly to homes in cities and suburbs. The company’s next generation home delivery platform is practically silent (designed to sound like wind rustling leaves), and is expected to deliver up to 7 times as fast as traditional automobile delivery, completing 10-mile deliveries in about 10 minutes.  Zipline has spent the last several years building and fine tuning its next generation technology, Platform 2 (P2),…

In the global race to eliminate friction from digital access, passwordless authentication has emerged as one of the most celebrated evolutions in cybersecurity. Banks, SaaS companies, fintech platforms, and enterprise systems are transitioning to biometric authentication, magic links, smart tokens, and cryptographic keys, largely under the belief that removing traditional passwords will significantly improve the user experience and reduce the risk of credential theft. But a new wave of engineering and security analysis is revealing a more complex reality: passwordless systems may resolve one problem while quietly creating many new ones. So far, security analysts and back-end engineers who work…

This technology also plays a powerful role in digital and financial inclusion Nigeria is at an inflection point where it needs to adopt enabling technologies at scale to support high growth in the telecommunications and digital sectors. Using the right technology as a catalyst, these sectors can support financial inclusion and widespread economic growth. Gur Geva, founder and CEO of iiDENTIFii, a world-leading biometric authentication platform, says, “Biometric technology is a crucial consideration in Nigeria’s ongoing digital expansion. If financial institutions, telecommunications companies and the public sector adopt enterprise-grade biometric authentication, they can provide services to Nigerian consumers safely, efficiently…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has urged Mobile Networks Operators (MNOs) in Nigeria to implement energy-saving measures that will empower telecom consumers in the face of the ongoing energy crisis caused by supply and climate issues. Giving a remark at the 2023 World Consumer Rights Day with the theme “Empowering Consumers through Clean Energy Transition” held in Abuja yesterday, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, noted that given Nigeria’s recent licensing of the 5G spectrum networks, which consume twice as much energy as 4Gs, it has become expedient for MNOs to look for green and sustainable…

Smile Communications has introduced FREE Streaming data services that will allow its customers get access to FREE Youtube, FREE Netflix and FREE Amazon prime video when they subscribe to any of the select Bigga plans from Smile. “We are giving our customers so much more when they purchase any of our select Bigga plans with FREE streaming data, so they can have fun engaging with their favourite entertainment and social media services for longer,” Mr. Abdul Hafeez, Chief Marketing Officer, Smile Nigeria announced in a statement. The Bigga plan takes care of Smile customers who recharge from 1.5GB to 20GB,…

For nearly 25 years, Google has built helpful products that people use every day — from Search and Maps, to Gmail and Docs in Google Workspace. AI has been transformational in building products that have earned a valued place in people’s lives. Across our productivity suite, advances in AI are already helping 3 billion users save more time with Smart Compose and Smart Reply, generate summaries for Docs, look more professional in meetings, and stay safe against malware and phishing attacks. We’re now making it possible for Workspace users to harness the power of generative AI to create, connect, and…

In an effort to drive more meaningful voter engagement in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, Yiaga Africa, a leading non-partisan, non-profit organisation, partnered with Infobip, a global cloud communication company to implement an innovative WhatsApp conversational chatbot solution to better connect with, and educate voters across the country. A first-of-its-kind project for Infobip in Africa, the voter education chatbot named #MyElectionBuddy was developed to provide critical election-related information to the citizens of Nigeria, in line with Yiaga Africa’s drive to increase voters’ education and citizen engagements. Isaac Akanni, Customer Growth Manager for Africa at Infobip Nigeria, who led the project implementation,…

International powerhouse brands turn to inaugural GITEX Africa 2023 as launchpad to scale operations in the world’s next biggest digital economy   Global tech pioneers and innovators are preparing to supercharge double-digit business growth across Africa, as they eagerly anticipate the debut of the continent’s largest and most inclusive tech and start-up event in Marrakech, Morocco. GITEX Africa will open doors for the first time on 31 May-2 June 2023, welcoming 500 exhibitors and 400 start-ups from 95 countries, with regional and international companies exuberant about the potential of the world’s rising tech continent, and the opportunities amplified by Africa’s ongoing…

In a bid to measure, monitor and manage all IT equipment and supporting infrastructure housed within its facilities, Africa Data Centres (ADC) has decided to partner TechAccess in deploying Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions in all its facility. The DCIM solution will help Africa Data Centres and its partners to gain critical insights into their operations at the click of a button. “Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies a pan-African technology group, is pleased to announce it has partnered with TechAccess, to implement a Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution,” it said in a statement. As the…