Google Cloud today announced it’s making Google Meet, Google’s premium video-conferencing solution, free for everyone, everywhere, assuring that availability will roll out over the coming weeks. Starting in early May, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to G Suite’s business and education users. These include features like scheduling and screen sharing, real-time captions, and layouts that adapt to your preference, including the expanded tiled view. “With the lines blurred between work and home, Google Meet can offer the polish needed for a work meeting, a tiled view for…
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Konga, a foremost composite e-commerce giant, has entered into a partnership with renowned Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturer, Unilever aimed at seeing the wide range of products on the brand’s stable placed at the reach of shoppers across the country. DigitalTimesNG understands that Unilever is keen to leverage Konga’s massive regional warehousing infrastructure, advanced logistics capabilities and unmatched reach, through its thriving online platform which caters to a growing clientele of online shoppers in search of genuine products at the best prices available in the market. Further increasing the appeal of Konga as a premium vehicle suited to Unilever’s…
At a time when global players in the e-commerce sector have seen the peculiarities of their operations come to the fore in helping governments and people in other climes observe social distancing and stay in the supply of essential items without leaving their homes, the Nigerian e-Commerce sector is instead buckling under the weight of heavy restrictions by state actors and law enforcement officials; leading to no end of frustrations for players in the sector. E-commerce giants in other climes such as Amazon and Alibaba, for instance, have played important roles in the fight against COVID-19 in other parts of…
Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has promised that the Agency is willing to offer full support to the tech community in Nigeria. This is to enable her to innovate on ways of crafting an exit and recovery strategy from this COVID-19 pandemic and to make sure Nigeria comes out stronger as a nation. Mallam Inuwa made this known yesterday during his speech via Skype at the opening ceremony of a Hackathon event put together by ‘100 women in ICT’ with the theme: ‘Hack the Crisis in Nigeria.’ “Hack the crisis project is…
WhatsApp Friday announced that it was expanding its group calling limit from four people to eight people. This would make it easier for users to stay in touch with their friends and family during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement was part of a bunch of new product updates announced by Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this week, the company started to roll out this feature to users of the app’s beta versions on iOS and Android. Now, this functionality will start rolling out to everyone starting next week. For comparison, Houseparty allows eight participants and Google…
As a part of its effort to address the social paradigms emerging from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Facebook Friday announced new features heading to Messenger, Portal, Facebook Live, Instagram, and Facebook Dating that aim to make it easier to connect with close friends, followers, and significant others. A report by VentureBeat showed that perhaps the most notable is Messenger Rooms, which creates joinable group video calls on Facebook and Facebook Messenger. Hosts can invite anyone to join even if they don’t have a Facebook account and rooms will soon hold up to 50 users without a time limit. The account-free…
Apps using Apple and Google’s contact tracing solution, due out soon, will be able to encrypt metadata associated with smartphones and randomly generate keys for identifying phones to make it harder to identify an individual or track people. A seed version of the app will be released Tuesday for iOS users, supporting Apple devices released within the last 4 years, in order for public health authorities to begin testing it, according to a report at VentureBeat. Apple and Google spokespeople, as well as privacy advocates, insist that high levels of user trust are needed for a voluntary app approach to…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is once again joining the global community to mark the Girls in ICT Day. The day is marked annually on the fourth Thursday in April and this year’s celebration falls on the 23rd April 2020. NITDA is, therefore, highlighting the need to promote technology career opportunities for girls and women in ICT, the world’s fastest-growing sector. During this year’s celebration, NITDA is drawing attention to the critical need for more girls and women to participate actively in the ICT sector of our economy. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) had estimated skills shortfall of…
As the COVID-19 pandemic bites harder, and movements are restricted in some major parts of the world, Nigeria inclusive, Firstmonie Agents, an agent banking initiative from First Bank of Nigeria Limited is bridging the gaps and helping people to meet their needs of accessing the funds to buy food items and groceries as well as to send money to their loved ones. With many Banks and business reengineering efforts to improve the adaptability of their customers to electronic ways of carrying out business, this is one of the many measures by the premier financial institution in Nigeria to support the…
Access Bank, Nigeria’s leading retail financial institution, says it will reward 10 customers with N10 million in its May edition of DiamondXtra monthly draw. Group Head, Retail Products and Segments at Access Bank Adaeze Ume, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Monday, said the bank would continue to deliver on its promise by continually rewarding its customers for their loyalty and savings culture. She said that 10 lucky customers would be rewarded with one million naira each in the May monthly draw slated for May 13. “We have been encouraging our customers to stay safe and stay…