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  The global management consulting and professional services company , Accenture Nigeria, yesterday showcased its technology innovations in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Robotics and Blockchain, saying these technology capabilities will revolutionize Nigeria’s Economy. Speaking to the media at its Lagos office, Accenture, which provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services said the technologies will help businesses across different sectors in the country boost their productivity and efficiency. “Early this year, we predicted that in five years, more than half of consumers and enterprise clients will select products and services based on a company’s AI,…

  The Managing Director of Vodacom Business Nigeria, Lanre Kolade, has called on Nigerian Businesses to adopt new technologies to drive productivity and efficiency, saying that will make them to remain competitive in the face of technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data Analytics, which have continued to transform and disrupt the business world. Mr. Kolade stated this while speaking at the recently held Business Day CEO Forum Nigeria 2017, an annual thought leadership initiative in collaboration with McKinsey & Co. He said technology such as IoT enables growth across business sectors, making many  organisations using such…

  Today, it is no longer a question of adopting AI or not. Instead, ask yourself if you and your sales team are ready for the inevitable. Artificial intelligence for business is a reality. If your goal is to forge ahead and lead in your field, then you need to adapt to a workplace where AI plays a crucial role. As J.J. Kardwell, founder and CEO of predictive marketing software company EverString, puts it: “Growth-focused sales organizations of every size and stage cannot afford to ignore the benefits of AI-assisted sales.” Where is AI for Business Today “Artificial Intelligence heralds…

YouTube today released its annual Rewind lists, showcasing the moments that captured the attention of Nigerians and YouTube users around the globe this year. The top 10 videos (excluding from major music labels) most viewed by Nigerians this year include comedy skits by Mark Angel, coming in 3rd and 8th position, as well as political concerns with the return of President Buhari from his medical trip to the United Kingdom and the Biafra protests coming in at 2nd and 4th position. A look at the music videos most watched in Nigeria, shows how Nigerians have embraced indigenous music, but…

  Nigeria’s first tricyle taxi networking company, Matattu has boosted its operation in Lagos with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Tricycle Owners and Operators Association of Nigeria, TOOAN. Matattu is a technology based tricycle operation model that allows passengers to engage the services of tricycle riders using an app also called Matattu. Speaking at the official signing of the MOU at TOOAN office in Lagos, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Matattu, Engr. Samuel Ajiboyede said that the partnership between Matattu and TOOAN will bring about a seamless tricycle business operation in the state. He said: “What…

  Search engine giant, Google today announced the launch of an application that clean up, find and share files on the phone. Tagged ‘File Go’, the application runs on all Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher and is available for download on the Google Play Store. “Files Go helps smartphone users manage their files and storage space. Every day, millions of smartphones run out of space, all over the world. And images, videos, apps and documents never stop coming. Eventually, users reach a point where they have to choose what to keep or delete,” Google said in a statement. Files Go…

  By Kester Omu The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has asked the stakeholders, especially the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) to collaborate in resolving some of the disputes that usually arise between telecom providers and the consumers. The Director, Consumer Affairs Bureau at NCC, Abdullahi I. Maikano, who made the call in his opening remark at the 4th Quarter Industry Consumer Advisory Forum (ICAF) 2017 organized by NCC with the theme ‘Telecom Dispute Resolution And Redress Mechanism’, believes such collaboration will further protect the interests of the telecoms consumers, who sometimes feel cheated by the service providers. “To empower the consumer…

  Any nation that wishes to advance technologically and play big, in the games of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, AI, must invest significantly in Education and make it possible for more students to take up Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM, subjects. This is exactly what Russ Fisher-Ives, Co-Founder and his fellow Co-Founders are doing, with RoboRaves International. I recently had a chat with Russ on his thoughts on the future of Robotics in Africa. Russ stated that, Robotics brings technology for the 21st Century. “As we move to make our machines smaller, so, they run more efficiently, they use…

  By Moses Braimoh Many business organisations and public institutions are faced one way or the other with challenges of their corporation email been compromised. This to a large extent has brought loss of businesses or embarrassment. Those who have not been able to successfully manage it by being on top of the situation are those whose knowledge and technology partnership need to be upgraded. In the technology parlance, the Business e-mail compromise (BEC) is when an attacker hacks into a corporate e-mail account and impersonates the real owner to defraud the company, its customers, partners, and/or employees into sending…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Chief Technical Officer of Medallion Communications Limited, Mr. Krishnan Ranganath has disclosed that the converged services being deployed by Medallion has been able to address infrastructure challenges in the Nigeria’s telecom industry, where teledencity is said to be above 100 percent with over 137 million active mobile phone users. Krishnan made this disclosure last week in Lagos at this year’s West Africa Convergence Conference, with the theme: ‘Convergence & the New Deals: – Entrepreneurship & Employability’, and was organised by Knowhow Media International. According to Krishnan, Medallion knew a long time ago that the convergence…