Phonemaker HTC Sales Plunge Pushes firm to a Loss

A sharp plunge in sales has pushed the Taiwanese phonemaker HTC into a loss for the three months to March, as it struggles to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung.

Revenue for the first quarter dropped 64% to 14.8bn Taiwanese dollars ($456m; £315m), while the net loss was 2.6bn Taiwanese

This Thing About Selfies… Who Are We Really Slaying? by Iniobong Umoh

You love taking selfies at every given opportunity. Your mobile phone is always with you at all times because you use the camera on the go to snap your cool pictures. You can truthfully admit to yourself that you are addicted to snapping pictures.

 

Apple asks court to reverse FBI iPhone order

Apple has asked a US court to overturn an earlier ruling ordering the company to help the FBI break into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino killers.

In court papers Apple says law enforcement authorities are seeking "dangerous powers" and the move violates its constitutional rights. 

 

The FBI and White House have said the request is limited to one iPhone.

But Apple says the software needed to comply with the FBI's request "simply does not exist".

Instead Apple says it would have to create a new version on the iPhone operating software, containing a back door to the device's encrypted data.

It argues that the lower court did not have the authority to force Apple to do that.

Apple also says no court had ever forced a company to weaken the security of its products to gain access to personal individual information.

Get Your Favourite BBM Sticker Packs, Cash Back in Your Firstmonie Wallet and a BBM Passport Phone in 5 Steps

To allow you explore and access fun and interesting sticker packs on the BBM Shop, Firstmonie; the mobile money service of First Bank of Nigeria Limited and MMIT (Mobile Media Info Tech) partnered with BlackBerry in Nigeria to enable social commerce in BBM™; the popular private social network.

 

You can now access and pay for contents on the BBM Shop using your Firstmonie mobile wallet from FirstBank. To make your chats more exciting, Firstmonie rewards you with cash back in your wallet when you purchase a sticker pack. The first 500 subscribers to buy a BBM sticker pack from the BBM Shop with their Firstmonie wallet will get cash back in their wallet to use for other purchases.

Talk Talk website hit by " cyber attack"

News that the TalkTalk website had been hit by a "significant and sustained cyber-attack" broke last week.

The phone and broadband provider, which has more than four million customers in the UK, said bank details and personal information could have been accessed.

But credit and debit card numbers had not been stolen, it said.

"In the unlikely event that money is stolen from a customer's bank account as a direct result of the cyber-attack [rather than as a result of any other information given out by a customer], then as a gesture of goodwill, on a case-by-case basis, we will waive termination fees," the company said on its website.

Compulsory encryption?

Insurance hits Policies sales, through Mobile phones

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More people are signing up for insurance products using their mobile operator, thereby deepening the penetration rate for micro-insurance in the country over the past three years.

A 2014 National Insurance Commission (NIC) study found that 28 percent of people have a micro-insurance product either through a mobile operator, savings account, or in a loan product.

Are Tablet Computers affecting Children’s ability to read?

Since the invention of the television, a box you could put children in front of and leave them passively entertained, nothing has changed how children spend their time as much as the tablet computer.

Four years ago, just seven per cent of 5- to 15-year-olds in the UK had access to a tablet. By last year it was 71 per cent. Some 34 per cent of this age group even owned the tablets themselves, as well as 11 per cent of three- to four-year-olds, according to Ofcom figures.