With all eyes on the upcoming seasonal rush, most companies have been looking for ways to make their voices heard. The US market estimates that $51 billion is expected to change hands during Black ...

Yahoo’s strategy to grow its business in mobile has largely been focused around what the company is doing with apps for smartphones and tablets. But a piece of news today points to how it is also ...

Twitter is working hard to build up its profile and usage among people in developing markets, and today another piece of that strategy has come into focus. It has signed a deal with Switzerland-based ...

On this bright Monday morning, as I put my materials together for this Wednesday column, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, is holding a crisis meeting with the ...

In this great big world of digitisation seemingly on steroids, and innovations springing up faster than mushrooms overnight after a good soft rain, it is more than easy to be considered out of fashion ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN yesterday said the dispute between the telecommunications operators in the country and Deposit Money Banks, DMBs over earnings on the Unstructured services Data, USSD, ...

Did you know that smartphone penetration in South Africa was estimated to be around 82.5% in 2024, but nearly 28% of users frequently avoid using their devices due to high data costs, limiting ...

The USSD technology is prone to fraud, slow and laborious. Technologists believe it is time for Uganda to shift to better technologies and this will require a collaborative effort from the innovators, ...

Mobile customers access the USSD service (most commonly as *401# services for unconditional call forwarding services) by dialling the active code on their phone screen. Mobile customers access the ...