A new partnership between Nigeria and Microsoft will create 27, 000 jobs, equip five million Nigerians with digital skills, and provide internet connection for under-served communities in the six geopolitical zones in three years. According to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN the Nigerian government is leveraging on Microsoft’s experience in the…
Rulers Who Feast in the Morning
By CHINAZO-BERTRAND OKEOMAH Every great leader obeys a law called the law of delayed gratification. Simply put, the law expects one to shift enjoyment of certain benefits to the future if such act will make the future better. Thus anything we do today that puts our future in jeopardy is a breach of the…
Microsoft Embraces ‘Middle Finger’ Emoji
Microsoft has dared to go where Apple and Google have so far feared to tread, becoming the first big consumer OS vendor to add the “middle finger” emoji to its software platform. Flipping the bird in emoji form has been around since the middle of last year, and rolled out as part of the Unicode…
Microsoft Partners Truecaller
Swedish startup, Truecaller has announced a partnership with Microsoft that will see its Live Caller ID feature arrive for Windows Phone users. Truecaller is a cross-platform call and contact management service, claiming more than 85 million users globally. It’s like an international crowdsourced telephone directory – everyone who registers with Truecaller can optionally open their…
