In one of the major turnarounds, Facebook is letting go its ‘Real Name’ policy, with a few conditions. Facebook on Friday, confirmed that it is modifying the terms of its heavily criticised “real name” policy which demands users go by their “authentic name” when on the social network rather than an alias to protect their identity. While there has been opposition to the real name policy since Facebook first started it, the [....]

It sold over 48 million iPhones in the period, which it said were "record fourth quarter sales", although the figure did miss analysts' expectations. It also reported a net income of $11.1bn for the period, adding that 2015 was its most successful ever year. "The growth was fuelled by record fourth quarter sales of iPhone, the expanded availability of Apple Watch, and all-time records for Mac sales and revenue from services"  [....]

Samsung Galaxy S6: It is the successor to the Galaxy S5 and is expected to be unveiled at its "Unpacked 2015" event on 1 March. It may come with features like Exynos 7420 processor, Android 5.0 Lollipop, 1440 x 2560 pixels, 20MP main camera and 5MP front snapper, and 32GB of internal memory and 3GB RAM, according to AnTuTu benchmark as reported by Chinese [....]

The phone is only 8% larger than the existing iPhone 5S, this increase is to accommodate the larger screen. Sapphire Crystal display The use of sapphire crystal as opposed to Corning Gorilla Glass has been widely rumoured in the past 6 months. The benefits of using Sapphire Crystal come mainly in the form of added strength/durability and added scratch/fracture [....]

Vodafone Ghana has recorded an increase in its gross subscriber additions by 1,071,539 at the end of the first quarter of 2015. This achievement is significant, especially as a thorough sanitisation of its subscriber base in the same period, resulted in a loss of 120,000 subscribers. This development has been attributed to a base cleaning exercise by the company  [....]

Facebook has teamed up with nine news publishers to launch a feature that will allow them to publish articles directly on the network's mobile news feeds Sharing articles on Facebook's mobile app is more and more common. The new feature makes it far faster. As it stands, it takes about eight seconds to load articles. And this is by far the single slowest content  [....]

Apple's streaming service will likely bear the name ‘Apple Music’, according to reports. 9to5Mac.com reports that the service will also include a functionalities of social networking tools for artists when it is launched next month. The site likens the new tools to the short-lived Ping social network, saying that artists will be able to possess personal profile pages within [....]

So you’ve set out to purge your Camera Roll of all those blurry cat pics. And maybe, while caught up in a whirlwind of power, you overzealously deleted the best of the batch. You’re not alone. Luckily, iOS 8 has a safeguard for such situations. Here’s how you can recover (or permanently delete) those images. 1. Go to Apple’s native Photos app. 2. You’ll see your  [....]

Samsung Electronics Africa today launched its Digital Village in the Volta Region of Ghana. Positioned at the heart of communities like Volo in the North Tongu District Assembly, the Digital Village will provide access to the world’s most advanced information and communication technologies, education and health services to under-resourced areas [....]

RackAfrica, a leading data centre company for Ghana, in partnership with TechXact has organized for the first time IDCA (International Data Centre Authority) datacentre certification-training program at Holiday Inn, Accra. CEO of RackAfrica, Rajnish Sharma, explained the need of high-level datacentre training program in Ghana. He said that Ghana’s IT  [....]

Facebook may have missed Wall Street’s estimates for its latest quarter, but it continues to grow at a healthy clip when it comes to users. During the social network’s Q1 2015 earnings report on Wednesday, the company reported its user base is larger than ever on desktop and mobile. There are now 1.44 billion people who use Facebook every month, up from the 1.39 billion [....]

Young people are deserting social media sites such as Facebook in a bid to ditch online relationships with their parents, a new report has revealed. Research showed a third of younger internet users admitted deleting social media accounts because their parents had started to use the same site. The phenomenon involves more established social media sites such as Facebook  [....]