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Funke opeke

Funke Opeke: The founder and visionary behind West Africa’s internet backbone, MainOne

Women in Tech

Funke Opeke was named one of the World’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018 by Forbes, an attestation of her efforts in sparking the internet revolution that finally put Nigeria on the internet with the rest of the world

August 14, 2021 / 0 Comments
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App Review: How Tudo is helping users set and achieve financial goals

App Review

Individuals dream of making their lives easier. But the one factor that keeps hindering the execution of that dream remains their inability to attain financial freedom.

July 28, 2021 / 0 Comments
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Buhari approves change of name for Federal Ministry of Science and Technology

News

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the change of name of Ministry of Science and Technology to Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

July 21, 2021 / 0 Comments
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Meet John Dabiri, President Biden’s new adviser on Science and Technology

Founder Sportlight,  News

It is no longer news that President Joe Biden of the United States of America, appointed John Dabiri, a Nigerian-American aeronautical engineer, as a member of his council of advisors on science and technology.

July 21, 2021 / 0 Comments
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Elon Musk

How young Elon Musk started and sold 3 businesses for $1.9bn before Tesla

Founder Sportlight

Success is never an accident. It is most times the result of many years of hard work and consistent effort. Elon Musk is popular today for his electric car company Tesla and his space project SPACE X.

July 21, 2021 / 0 Comments
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President Buhari receives first made in Nigeria cell phone

News

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, received the first made in Nigeria cell phone, called ITF Mobile.

July 21, 2021 / 0 Comments
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Crypto

Top Crypto jobs paying thousands of dollars monthly

Explainers,  Feature

From developers to crypto analysts, Bitcoin’s boom has created a significant amount of wealth and jobs that are rooted in a variety of skill sets. As blockchain technology disrupts the global economic system at an exponential rate, it’s no longer news that the cryptoverse has created immense job opportunities, increasing the prominence of blockchain and […]

July 21, 2021 / 0 Comments
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What you should know Nigeria’s unemployment rate as of the end of 2020 rose to 33.3% from 27.1% recorded as of Q2 2020, indicating that about 23,187,389 (23.2 million) Nigerians remain unemployed. According to the last Gross Domestic Product Report, released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the information and communication sector grew by 13.8%% in full-year 2020 compared to 11.08% recorded in 2019 and 9.65% in 2018.

Unemployment: Tech can be used to reduce youth unemployment – BOI

News

The FG disclosed that Technology can be used as a catalyst to solve the youth unemployment crisis in Nigeria, citing that embracing tech and infusing it into business processes will make organisations and the country more competitive. This was disclosed by Mr Olukayode Pitan, Managing Director,  Bank of Industry (BOI), at the inauguration of BOI-UNILAG Incubation and […]

July 21, 2021 / 0 Comments
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FG moves to develop first Nigeria made electric vehicle

News

The Federal Government through one of its agencies, the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Zaria has set up a 22-member project team for the development of an electric vehicle.

July 20, 2021 / 0 Comments
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As technology evolves, many devices and tools that once felt essential have gradually faded from daily use. Items we once relied on have been replaced by faster, more advanced alternatives, making them obsolete. When a technology becomes outdated because of newer innovations, it is considered obsolete. Over the past decade, several once-popular gadgets and systems have disappeared, including typewriters, landlines, and VHS tapes. Typewriters First introduced commercially in 1874, typewriters became widely used after the mid-1880s. They were essential for writing tasks in offices, homes, and schools. However, computers eventually replaced typewriters with their faster, more versatile capabilities. By 2011, the last company producing manual typewriters in Mumbai, India, shut down permanently. VHS Tapes From the 1970s until the early 2000s, VHS tapes were the standard for watching and recording home videos. DVDs eventually took over as the preferred format, offering better quality and convenience. By 2008, VHS was largely phased out. Film Cameras Photography began with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s first photo in the 1820s. Film cameras became widespread years later, requiring physical reels of film that needed to be developed into printed photos. The rise of digital cameras and smartphones has made film cameras unnecessary. In fact, Canon sold its last film camera in 2018, eight years after halting production. Floppy Disks Floppy disks, once a common storage medium, first appeared in the 1970s. The original 8-inch version could hold just 80 kilobytes of data, while the smaller 3.5-inch disks stored up to 1.44 MB. By the mid-2000s, USB drives, memory cards, CDs, and cloud storage made floppy disks obsolete. Interestingly, the floppy disk’s image lives on as the “save” icon in many software programs. Landline Phones Landlines were a staple for over 100 years, ever since Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call in 1876. Today, mobile phones have largely replaced them, offering the freedom to communicate from virtually anywhere. In short, these technologies—once vital—have gradually been replaced by more efficient and versatile solutions as the digital world keeps advancing.

5 Tech Products you never thought would become obsolete

Feature,  Industry Analysis

As technology evolves, many devices and tools that once felt essential have gradually faded from daily use. Items we once relied on have been replaced by faster, more advanced alternatives, making them obsolete.

July 18, 2021 / 0 Comments
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