This comes after the several petitions from the student leadership over the matter.

The management of the school earlier in 2017 imposed the ban supposedly because students were misusing sockets in the various lecture halls.

Among the reasons cited for the imposition of the ban was the lack of concentration by students who fidget with their phones and laptops while lecturers were ongoing.

The General Secretary of the Students Representative Council of GIJ, Nathaniel Alpha, in a statement announcing the decision by management on January 28, 2018, said, the lifting of the ban takes immediate effect.

Some students of the school have had their mobile phones and laptops seized by school authorities for flouting the ban when it was in force. They often had to go through tedious administrative processes before retrieving their devices.

Many students complained that the ban was regressive and negatively impacted on their academic work. However, the complaints did not yield positive results.

Nathaniel Alpha said, “The SRC President, aware of the seriousness of the issue, forwarded these concerns to the Governing Council of the Institute, and made submissions at Council sittings to this effect… after several days, weeks and months of petitions, letters, meetings and the deployment of various advocacy techniques, management backed by a decision of the school’s Governing Council; which the SRC President is a member of, has revoked this decision.”

While noting that all electrical sockets were being reconnected to enable students use them, he urged the student populace to “handle the sockets well.”

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By: Farida Yusif/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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That’s based on a report from South Korea’s Electronic Times, which noted that the search giant has offered to invest at least $880 million (about 1 trillion won) in LG Display Co., so as to secure a stable supply of flexible OLED screens for its next smartphone.

It’s not unsurprising to hear that Google might be interested in exploring curved displays, as that seems to be the flavor of the year in phone design. Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 sports one, and Apple has reportedly inked a deal with the firm to have it manufacture 160 million of them for its next iPhone.

Don’t bet on it just yet though: LG Display is still considering the proposal, and Google may not have too many other options if it wants a curved screen. It isn’t clear if Samsung will be able to accommodate the additional demand after signing its deal with Apple, and rival manufacturer Japan Display Inc. said in January that it won’t be ready to produce flexible OLEDs until 2018.

Google is also believed to be working on a better camera for the second-generation Pixel, as well as a budget variant with pared down hardware that’s aimed at emerging markets.

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Source: Thenextweb

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The patients all suffering from back pains, red eyes and headaches are fidgety, anxious and at times aggressive if prevented to go online.

At the Bachir Mentouri clinic in Constantine, the capital of Constantine Province in north-eastern Algeria, Counselling, physical exercises, meditation and music therapy is the treatment being offered for internet addiction.

Bachir Mentouri clinic rolled out the rehab programme intended for compulsive users of technology, chiefly social networks users.

The North African nation has a low internet penetration rate which is at 32.8 percent in a country of 40 million people however for the more than nine million Facebook users; there is an increasing number of internet users losing control.

Sihem Hemadna, a psychologist at the clinic says she has met over 100 patients in May that ‘can spend the entire day online, from sunrise till sunset, getting into arguments on forums and social media – sometimes without taking a break to eat or even use the bathroom.’ The patients range from 17 years to 41 years.

People can spend hours each day in front of a screen without being addicted. The critical distinction between an addiction and just a bad habit is that addiction implies a pattern of use that you cannot stop.”

“A 2013 study (pdf) of university students in Uganda and Namibia found that while students spent less time online than their Western peers, they showed more instances of emotional dependency and mood modification—behavior like choosing to be online over going out.” Says Quartz.

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Mixpanel pegs 65.21% of iOS device users as having Apple’s latest software update, while Fiksu DSP has it at 66.7%.

According to Fiksu’s data, iOS 10 has hit the two-thirds mark faster than any of the past six iterations of the mobile OS. The update first came out of beta 27 days ago, on September 13.

As 9To5Mac notes, one interesting bit here is the apparent spike in iOS 10 downloads that arrived two weeks after the initial release. As you can see in the chart below, iOS 10’s adoption rate lagged well behind iOS 9 and iOS 8 for the first 15 days of its life cycle, at which point it began its rapid ascent.

Since iPhone 7 models — which have iOS 10 preinstalled — still make up a small amount of the iOS device pool, it seems as if a large chunk of Apple users were either hesitant to upgrade after a few early bugs, or just collectively patient. Fiksu, for its part, speculates that many iPhone owners waited to see if they should buy the iPhone 7, then decided to update their current devices once reviews for the new model proved less enthusiastic than usual.

Either way, people seem to want those iMessage updates and lock screen widgets.

A familiar refrain
The fast adoption also serves as yet another reminder of the chasm between iOS and Android when it comes to software updates.

It’s been said time and again, but Apple’s iron-fisted rule of the iOS ecosystem allows it to push big updates like iOS 10 to much more of its customer base at once. It controls the hardware, it controls the software, and it barely has to deal with the meddling of mobile carriers, so it has very few hoops to jump through when it wants to get its latest features into people’s hands.

Compare that to Android, whose openness allows for a much larger base of devices, but prevents its caretaker Google from directly pushing updates to non-Google devices. According to the most recent update on Google’s Android developers page, the newest Android 7.0 Nougat update was available on less than 0.1% of devices about two weeks after it launched. That’s still early, but given that only 19% of devices ran Android 6.0 at that same time, the situation isn’t likely to improve anytime soon.

As we’ve said before, that doesn’t make iOS better than Android — Nougat is a fine update, and different people have different preferences. It just shows that Apple’s way of doing business gets around the massive structural issues that are inherent to Google’s way of doing business.

Google is trying to rectify this with its new Pixel phones, but only to an extent. While those devices aim for the sort of hardware-software harmony that Apple has mastered, they’d have to seriously catch on to force the rest of the Android world to get its act together.

That might happen; it might not. For now, only Apple can get two-thirds of its user base to upgrade in less than a month.

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Source: Business Insider

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