Online scam is on the rise in Nigeria as the internet marketing business is on the increase a typical example of tars (weed) growing amidst the wheat. It's often difficult to tell if an email is legitimate. A friend of mine that travelled to the US recently sent a mail to his wife in Nigeria, in which he requested she pays Five Hundred Thousand Naira into an account he gave him. In less than five minutes, t ...

Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse and developer of early incarnations of email, word processing programmes and the internet, has died at the age of 88. He died from acute kidney failure at his California home after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, said one of his daughters, Diana Engelbart Mangan. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, when mainframe computers took up entire rooms and were fed ...