HELLO

Samsung has launched a smartphone which allows users to control its 5in (12.5cm) screen using only their eyes. The Galaxy S4 follows on from last year’s S3, a product that sold over 40 million units worldwide. At a lavish, Broadway-themed event in New York, the company also demoed the phone’s ability to take two different pictures at once. Analysts widely regard Samsung to be the biggest challenger to Apple’s dominance of mobile products. The Galaxy S4 will be rolled out globally at the end of April. Following the launch,  shares  in Samsung fell 1.7% in early trade in Seoul on Friday amid worries the market for phone upgrades was “flattening out”. The company’s head of mobile communications, JK Shin said 327 mobile operatiors in 155 countries will carry the handset. The device will be made available in two colours, white and black In the UK, Vodafone, Three, Orange, T-Mobile and EE have all announced plans to offer the device on their networks. Through a...

Samsung Electronics is developing a wristwatch as Asia's biggest technology company races against Apple to create a new industry of wearable devices that perform similar tasks to smartphones. "We've been preparing the watch product for so long," Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile  business , said in an interview in Seoul. "We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them." Lee had no comment on what features the watch might have, how much it would cost and when it would go on sale. The Suwon, South Korea-based company already plans to release three high-end smartphones this year - including the Galaxy S4 unveiled last week and one using the Tizen operating system - as it competes with Apple for customers in a slowing global market. Samsung's disclosure comes after people familiar with Apple's plans said last month the U.S. company h...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has unveiled its Microwork job creation initiative. The event which held in Lagos was launched by the ministry of communication technology in a collaboration with World Bank. The Minister of Communication Technology Omobola Johnson said the job creation scheme, ‘Microwork  for Job Creation’, is aimed at reducing unemployment and creating wealth for youths of Nigeria. The ministry, with support from the STEP-B project under the Ministry of Education, is unveiling the scheme to address the issues of employability and job creation, using information technology. The primary objective of the project is to create awareness about the work opportunities in the Microwork and e-Lancing space as well as create job opportunities for Nigerian youths in order to reduce unemployment, according to the statement.  The initiative also aims to reduce the country’s brain drain, create business opportunities for potential Nigerian Microwork and e-Lanc...