Author: ITPulse

As Agricultural businesses continue to grow the engine of the country’s food industry, a high-flying Agric Start-up, AgroDomain has launched its platform in the Nigerian Agro market, promising to take the lead in empowering farmers with access to market and capital, link Agric produce buyers with reliable suppliers and providing on-demand logistic support for value-chain players. AgroDomain.com is an integrated Pan African Agro Marketplace Platform designed to cater for the end-to-end requirements of the agricultural value chain, and envisioned to bring digital transformation to the agricultural ecosystem in Nigeria in particular and the entire Sub-Sahara Africa in general. Founded in…

In a bid to give Nigerian students global exposure and opportunities that would allow them compete with their global peers, global technology company, Huawei recently hosted a one-day campus talk and job fair at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The job fair gives the students an opportunity to interact directly with the organization and to prepare them for their future careers in Information and Communications Technology. Speaking to the press at the one day event, Kenneth Igwe, Huawei Channel Training Manager (ICT Talent Ecosystem Development) in Nigeria, disclosed that the essence of the event is to meet with students from…

As people become more and more surrounded by smart devices, with the Internet of Things (IoT) attacks intensifying, Kaspersky, a leading anti-virus company has recommended ways users of smart devices can keep them safe. “Judging by the enlarged number of attacks and criminals’ persistency, we can say that IoT is a fruitful area for attackers that use even the most primitive methods, like guessing password and login combinations. Thus, to keep your devices safe, we urge everyone to take this simple step towards securing your smart devices” – said Dan Demeter, a security researcher at Kaspersky. Install updates for the…

One of the world’s leading antivirus companies, Kaspersky has revealed that 105 million smart devices were attacked in the first six months of 2019. The company’s honeypots noted that this figure is around nine times more than the number found in H1 2018 when only around 12 million attacks were spotted originating from 69,000 IP addresses The attacks, according to Kaspersky are mainly on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses that are capitalising on weak security of IoT products, where cybercriminals are intensifying their attempts to create and monetise IoT botnets. “Cyberattacks on IoT devices are booming, as…

Digital security expert explains, when you should use a PIN and when a password As users of this digital age, we have many different choices. You can enable or disable web cookies, depending on how much information you want a website to gather about you. You can use encrypted services or unencrypted ones, depending on how much you’re concerned about your privacy and security. You can also use a PIN (Personal Identification Number) or password to secure your digital devices or online accounts. However, in this particular case, the choice for most of us is not as straightforward as it…

In a bid to boost Agricultural produce and increase famers’ yield, through innovation, driven by digital intelligence, Standard Bank has partnered Rhiza Africa. The bank’s satellite hosted-remote sensing innovation is delivered in partnership with service provider RHIZA Africa and backed by Origin Enterprises PLC and the European Space Agency. About 60 per cent of the world uncultivated arable land presents is situated in Africa, which presents a major opportunity to meet the 70 per cent increase in global food demand expected by 2050. Africa also has potentials to grow through dramatically increasing its agricultural yields. However, Africa’s current dependence on…

Lynnette Luna, Principal Technology Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has this to say following Google’s introduction of new hardware that is characterized by Artificial Intelligence. “Within all of Google’s hardware announcements was a primary theme: Google Assistant makes devices better. This exploits a weakness with Apple’s Siri, which has never been very smart, and helps push Google’s goal of leading a technology community that is shifting from a mobile-first strategy to one characterized by Artificial Intelligence (AI) interactions regardless of the device. “The new Google Assistant offers breakthroughs in speech processing, which means that more requests…

A new report by GlobalData, data and analytics company has predicted that the global spending on virtual reality (VR) is expected to reach $28bn by 2030 from $7bn in 2018. In the report titled ‘Virtual Reality – Thematic Research’, GlobalData noted that the VR market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13 percent over the forecast period, from 2018 to 2030. This growth, according to the company will be driven by developments such as custom chips, untethered headsets, robust business models, new content and notably, enterprise applications. “Virtual Reality has been around, in one form or another,…

The Nigerian government at all levels has been advised to appreciate the efficacy of Artificial Intelligence technology, which is helping some governments in the areas of roads and bridge construction. An AI specialist, Mr. Saar Dickman, who gave the advice, believes that with Artificial Intelligence, bridge, tunnel owners and operators can obtain a visual diagnosis of the assets they manage. He cited New York and Tel Aviv based startup Dynamic Infrastructure, which is implementing the world’s first deep-learning solution, which provides live, cloud-based, 3D views of the bridge or tunnel and automatically alerts when changes are detected in maintenance and…

Available records from the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement Scheme (NIBSS), an umbrella body of all licensed banks, including the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), show that the value of online transaction in Nigeria in the first six months of 2019 is N49.35 trillion. This figure is an indication that online transaction in Nigeria and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s financial inclusion initiative is gaining traction, compared to the first half of 2018, when the total online transaction was valued at NGN 36.49 Trillion. Meanwhile, as the online financial transaction is soaring, cheque transaction is dwindling. According to WeeTracker that analyse this…