Thorsten Heins ''Tablet will be useless for five years''

Blackberry CEO Thorsten Hein  is of the opinion that tablets will be useless for five years. He believes Tablet business is not a good fit, and so therefore, the firm won't venture into it. He backed it up with a claim that Blackberry will rule the mobile computing world in the next five years.
Guys, remember this same gentleman said last year that the company new operating system Blackberry 10 will obsolete the laptop for three years. I wonder how he can be so sure about this.

Google Glass Tutorial video will explain how to use Glass

Guys, if you have the Glass already or need a tutorial before you get one, this video will explain how you can make the most out of Glass. It is imperative that you follow the steps carefully.Pls watch.

World Wide Web is 20 today

Today mark 20 years since British computer Scientist Tim Banner Lee created the World Wide Web(www). The first website was launched on 1993 to give test base instructions to educators on how to use the internet.
On April 30, 1993 the first website was updated, announcing that the newly born 'www' is available to the everyone. This mark great change in technology. You can attest to this fact.
To celebrate this special day, the first website has been restored after it went offline 20 years ago.
CERN, the firm behind the website said the website receives huge traffic, though it has loading issues. As at the time when WWW was made available to the public, there were 500 website. But recent report from CERN, proves that there are currently 630 million websites world wide. What a figure!!!
see the first website here CERN One man idea, change the world over. Think!

Woman duped into buying 'mirror' iPad.

On my way to Ikoyi yesterday, I ran into a woman who was  narrating to a man how she was duped into buying an iPad. Although, I have heard such cases before, but this particular story, personally, is really surprising.
According to her, the man approached her saying that he needed cash urgently and was ready to sell his N108,000($800) iPad for N45000($300). The woman saw that price was good so, she paid him the money. The man gave her the iPad without her checking to see what inside, and then drove off.
Immediately the man drove off, she opened the box and to her regret, it was not an iPad but instead, only a mirror. The box had an Apple logo on the front. This made to assume that the product inside was genuine.
Her long for cheap product made her fall for this scammer. I believe this should serve as a warning to those who expensive product from street vendors, simply because they come cheap.

Rolls-Royce to build convertible version of Wrath

What?! did I get it right or my eyes are deceiving me. Torstein wants to pull our legs right? Oh no! it is true. Rolls-Royce will build a convertible version if Wrath.
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Father of the 9-year-old boy who drove Ferrari 430 was arrested

How could he allow a minor let alone his 9-year-old son to drive his Ferrari 430. For the fact that he has fleet of cars, doesn't give me right to let his son to drive the car. He could get killed or kill someone.
Mohammed Nishan is a Indian millionaire, he is into tobacco and real estate business. He is the father of the boy who drove the Ferrari 430 three weeks ago. His wife Amal Nishan filmed when the minor was driving the car with his brother on the passenger seat.
On Monday, Police say they arrested Nishan for endangering his 9-year-old life. He was later released on bail.
According to him, his son was insisting to drive the F430 and, since it was his 9th birthday, he gave him the permission to do so. The mother story is even more surprising. She said ''we are proud of him. He has been driving since he was five'' she said. It was later disclosed that the boy had drove his father Bentley, Lamborghini and some other luxury cars owned by the father.
Can you imagine the mother statement ''he has been driving since he was five''.

World largest cyberattack suspect arrested in Spain

Statement from Spain Police say they have finally arrested the man behind what is believe to be the biggest cyberattack in internet history. The 35-year-old Dutch man was arrested on Thursday in the city of Granollers, north of Barcelona, Spain, in compliance with the directives on an European arrest warrant issued by Dutch judicial authorities .
Last month cyberattack, which was launched from Spain, affected internet service in the Netherlands, UK and the U.S. What led to the cyberattack was a feud between spam fighting group, Spamhaus and those group(Spammers) who sends junk mails(spam) to peoples in inboxes. Spamhaus periodically published the names of the servers those Spammers uses. Don't be surprise, Spamhaus has destroyed innocent websites in the past. It can shutdown a website without court order.
Meanwhile, Police say the Dutch man does most of his sophisticated attacks in his van, and even host interviews with international media firms there.

Photos: The Alfa Romeo 4C

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Google would change the way we search by 2029

Google is looking forward to building a search engine that would change the way we search for information on the platform. It said through Ray Kurzwell, who joined Google last year, that the search giant would integrate a search that would pick up the exact keywords in the user mind when searching for information, base on the type of content the user search for.
Ray Kurzwell said in an interview with Wired that he foresee the vision come to reality by 2029. In his words ''search has moved beyond just finding keywords, but it still doesn't read all these billions of web pages and book pages for semantic content''. If by any chance that vision come to reality, computers would interact with humans. As such, we could ask more complex questions, since computers would already know the human minds.
Ray Kuzwell is optimistic that the vision will come to reality by 2029.
Ray is regarded as one of the world leading futurist. He won the National Media of Technology and Innovation award; the highest technology award in America.

Smartphone for the blind created in India

The world first ever smartphone for the blind have been created by a team of innovators in India. The team said they worked nearly 3 years to create the smartphone prototype.
The smartphone, according to Summit Dagar head of the innovators, would enable the blind read SMSes, chat and even send emails.
The Braile smartphone has an innovative touchscreen that transforms the contents it receives into touchable patterns, making the blind to quickly recognize letters.
The smartphone is expected to launch later this year and, could be price at Rs10,000.
It is not known on what operating system the phone would run on, the team disclosed that they working on that.

Couple missed out of taking pictures of beautiful tiger, because their camera was taken by the predator

Those of you with ''sharp'' memory would remember sometime last month when I wrote on this blog of Giraffe that attack certain Safari tourists in South Africa. A similar incident recently happened in a reserve in India. But this time, they were not chased or hurt, the predator only took their precious belonging.
A certain couple who went taking safari in Tadoba Andhari tiger reserve in India, missed a golden opportunity of taking pictures of beautiful female tiger---tigress .
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New York Times launches news app for Google Glass users

The New York Times has just released its news app for the weirdest-tech Google Glass. Users of Google Glass can get the latest news from the New York Times right in their face(or sort of).

''Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro is the best windows laptop'' Soluto'

I don't have a MacBook Pro in my possession right now(Acer fan), but I have tried the Apple 13-inch MacBook laptop and therefore, I rated it best of all windows laptops. Although I rated the MacBook Pro as best windows laptop, I wasn't so sure about this due to the face that I haven't tried all laptops. But new report proves that the Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro is the best and reliable performing windows laptop.
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Would you pay $180,000 to sit for a cup of coffee with Tim Cook?

First, Facebook said that anyone who wanted to message CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the social network can do just that by paying $100 per message. Some of us said ''Mark is making himself an Internet God", but here comes the unbelievable. Anyone who wants to sit down for a cup of coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook should pay $180,000. Surprisingly enough, there are 52 bids and someone has already placed a bid of $180000 (an Apple insider).
Tim Cook has said to auction 30 minutes to an hour with the two lucky winners through CahrityBuzz, and all proceeds goes to charity.
Among the bidders are top celebrities like David Letterman, Peyton Manning, Robert DeNiro and Alex Trebek.
Personally, I believe the winners would like to show off about this. But wait a minute before you leap, there are strict rules. The auctions reads that '"the winners cannot blog, talk to press,write about, social network, take photos or record the experience in any way because of security regulations.
Also, would-be winners will sign an NDA, non disclosure agreement and we have to pass security screening.
The auction still has 19 days remaining, as it will close on May 14. So guys, go bidding!

Nokia unveiled new Asha 210 dual sim phone

Blackberry just got a new rival in the smartphone market. Nokia has finally unveiled its Asha 210 dual sim phone(Qwerty smartphone)
The Asha 210 looks very much like the Lumia lineup. One thing that will make the phone compete with Blackberry is that, it comes with a built-in WhatsApp mobile messenger.
Recently Nokia and WhatsApp entered into partnership to have WhatsApp mobile messenger built in the new Asha 210 dual sim phones.
Nokia said at the unveiling, that the Asha 210 will start shipping in the second quarter, and it is expected to cost around $72. For now, no UK availability details.

MTN Nigeria starts preorder for the Galaxy S4

MTN Nigeria. the largest telecom operator in the country has started accepting preorder for the latest Samsung flagship device, the Galaxy S4. According to the telecom operator, customers who wishes to preorder the device can walk into any of its outlets in the country.
Preorder for the device starts at N108,000 and comes with free internet access for six months.

The new $100 bill

Reports has it that the new high-tech $100 dollar note will be made available in the hands of every American starting October 8, Fed said Wednesday.. The new $100 bill has new features that makes it so different from the old, thereby helping retailers to identify counterfeit ones.
Benjamin Franklin image is still on the new $100 bill, except for a few added security features such as a blue ribbon woven with image of a bell and a ''big'' $100 that is able to change from copper to green when tilted back and fort.
When the new $100 note is out, FED says you cannot trade with old ones anymore.
Why the change? the $100 is the most counterfeited of all U.S currencies.

Study: Humans do show empathy for robots

Guys, do you feel empathy when watching a video of robots being treated violently? I believe your answer is as good as mine.Furthermore, German Researchers have proved this fact to be true beyond reasonable doubts.
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Survey: Nigerians prefer social networking sites to email for communication.

The population of Nigerians using social networking sites these days, have greatly increased in last three years. This fact was finally confirmed in a recent study.
According to a recent survey by the largest social network in Nigeria Eskimi, it revealed that nearly 80 per cent of Nigerians prefer social networking websites to email for communication. The survey was conducted on 1000 Nigerians. When asked, some say they used email only for business while others say they have emails just to sign up on these social networking sites. The popular social networks used by Nigerians are : Facebook, Twitter, Eskimi and mobile messaging app WhatsApp.
It therefore showed that social networks  have become more popular among Nigerians these years.

Google Glass: how it came and affect lives

Sterner, second to right in 1996

Google Glass! Google Glass! yes!! it's all over the internet. We hear about it everyday. It is even the most discussed topic right in the U.S than gun control or gay marriage. How it should be used or price tag of the device. But who brought the idea of glass or wearable computing? was it Sergey Brin or Thad Starner?
For those who are unaware, Thad Starner introduced wearable computing. He first introduced it in 1993. He did not have the knowledge it would be a modern mainstream product.
Starner, during his days in high school, made his own personal wearable(very similar to Google's own Glass) back then in 1996 when he found he couldn't engaged in class. In order to be fully engaged, he made this wearable. The device helped him to store lecture notes and also helped him remember all that was taught. He
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Facebook planning to build $1.5 billion data center in Altoona, Lowa

Earlier this year, it was rumored that multi-technology companies, including Apple planned to erect a huge data center in Altoona, Lowa. But today, reports reaching us proves that Facebook will build a huge data center in Lowa.
According to a confirmed source, the social media giant is planning to build a 1.4 million square feet data center in the small town. The project could possibly cost Facebook $1.5 billion.
Facebook already has two data centers in Forest City, N.C. Sweden and one in Lulea, Sweden; but those two are a bit smaller  when compared to this one.
Looks to me that our Facebook likes and photos are heading to a new home.

Today, Monday 22, 2013 is earth day

Survey: 19 per cent of U.S consumers likely to buy an Apple iWatch

A few months ago, there were rumours and speculations that Apple was building a smartwatch. A source then calls it an 'iWatch',' since most of Apple branded products starts with the letter 'I'. Then a few weeks later, we heard that Samsung, Google,LG  and recently joined Microsoft are building smartwatches. Which means, we have five different smartwatches to choose from.
However, base on consumers reactions, most of them say they would prefer a smartwatch made by Apple.
According to a recent survey conducted by ChangeWave Research on 1713 U.S consumers. it shows that 19 percent want an iWatch when it is made available. 4 per cent say they 'very likely' while an additional 15 per cent say 'somewhat likely'. By this, it shows that U.S consumers buy Apple's idea of developing a smartwatch.
One question, are you one of them?

Shark at Sai Kung

They are having a good time out there. Watch guys!

Thermal heat photos revealed how Boston marathon bomber was captured alive.

For five days, the whole of America couldn't close their eyes and have a good night rest all because of a suspect in the midst of peace loving Americans. Five days, men in Black and those in green work hard to capture the other suspect in the Boston marathon bombing. I praised their courage. Well done guys!

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Touch your lover over the internet, thanks to this technology

Last week, it was a group of Chinese teenagers who developed a coat that makes you like your lover hugged you. Yesterday, a team of Canadian Engineers developed a dress that change their colour and shape and a shirt that can charge your cell phone. This week, a bra and electric pants that makes you feel like your spouse is touching you, even in long distance have been developed by a team of professionals, Durex Australia.
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Samsung developing a mind control device

Inspector-General of Police: tinted glass permit is free of charge

Over the past few months, after the ban of the use of tinted Glass by non government officials in the country by the Nigeria Police Force--- which it said it is one of the powerful weapon used by criminals to successful carry out their evil acts---there have been complaints from motorists that the police collect huge sum of money for tinted permits, the IG, therefore said motorists are not allowed to pay money to police for tinted permits.
He made this known at a meeting on Friday with Assistants Inspectors-General of police who are in command of the 12 zones in the country to find lasting solutions to the recent crisis in the country.
Like earlier stated, most car owners(with tinted glass) have been complaining that police collect not less than 10,000 Naira to 50,000 for tinted grant permits.

Watch 10,000 iPhone 5 fall like dominoes

Get ready, relax and watch these real iPhone 5 smartphones fall like dominoes. This masterpiece was created by Aatma Studios.Ok, watch the video guys.
Reshare and let us know your thoughts in the comment.

Samsung Galaxy S4 hit Verizon

Verizon made this known yesterday in a tweet that it will start offering the latest technology smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4 to its subscribers next month. Though the US carrier did not disclose price of the device or the date when the smartphone will be made available.
Looking at the picture above, you see that the device already has Verizon logo.
it is the seven U.S carrier to start offering the Galaxy S4. AT&T and some other U.S carrier have already start preorder for the device.

Bayer Levekusen announced high-tech stadium plans

German club, Bayern Leverkusen  said it plans to install 350 wireless internet points in the 'bay arena', a stadium with a capacity of 30,210, by July. CEO of the club Wolfgang Holzhaeuser said Tuesday that fans who wants to keep their friends up-to-the-minute action inside the stadium are unable to do so due to poor network coverage. With the quality wireless service, fans can do just that.
Other stadiums such as Madrid Santiago Bernabeu, Amsterdam and London Wembley already have wireless internet service in their stadiums.
Bayer Leverkusen are almost set to appear at next season's UEFA champions league.

Bring Google+ comments to Blogger

In a blog post written by Emily Wood and posted by Principal Engineer Yonatan Zunger, starting today Google+ comments come to Blogger. By this, all bloggers using the Google blogging platform can increase  traffic to their blog greatly with this new feature.
When you enabled the feature on the dashboard(click Google+) you immediately start to experience great benefits. According to the post, there are six ways to improve your Blogger blog with this feature, you can share your posts and ask your audience to reshare your posts to relevant themes and trending topics. You can also host hangout with your readers, thus allowing you to have good relationships with them. Last but least, you can host all your comments even those one Google+ in one place.
So, I will be the first to do so. Reshare these posts with your friends.

NASA discovered three new planets that supports life.

NASA has discovered three new distant planet that it says supports life. It looks to me that Humans might eventually live Earth and settle there someday.
Red NASA press release below.
Two of the newly discovered planets orbit a star smaller and cooler than the sun. Kepler-62f is only 40 percent larger than Earth, making it the exoplanet closest to the size of our planet known in the habitable zone of another star. Kepler-62f is likely to have a rocky composition. Kepler-62e, orbits on the inner edge of the habitable zone and is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth.

The third planet, Kepler-69c, is 70 percent larger than the size of Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun. Astronomers are uncertain about the composition of Kepler-69c, but its orbit of 242 days around a Sun-like star resembles that of our neighboring planet Venus.

Elastic touchscreen prototype lets you pinch and zoom in '2.5D'

What if your screens were elastic? you could literally pull, push and pinch them. Data as we know it would
not be limited to a flat screen. Data would be alive.
A Dhairya Dand and Rob Hemsley of MIT's Media Lab created a new prototype which they called 'Obake'--A mythical Japanese that shape-lifts. But according them, it means an elastic 2.5D display that shape-lifts which can create mountains, rivers by pulling them out of the screen.The photos below shows their working prototype.
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LG to begin selling curve OLED TV

Months after unveiling the curve OLED TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, LG said ti will start selling the TV set sometime later this year. Vice President Thomas Lee said the firm is planning a retail launch but did not disclose when or where it stage the event.
Analysts are in agreement that curve OLED TV could cost $20,000.

Google: you can't resell or loan Glass

After much excitement from the first would-be owners who finally bought Glass for $1500, the search giant is refusing users to resell or rent the wearable device out.

According to Google ‘terms of service’ concerning Glass, you are not permitted to resell, loan or even auction the device. If you do, Google has the rights to deactivate the device, no money back and no access to Glass. It beat my imagination that companies these days now have the rights to retain their products even after the consumer acquired them.

One would-be owner of Glass auctioned the device on eBay. After receiving the news, he halted the auction. The auction began at$5000, and with so many people trying to lay their hands on the device, it’s a lost opportunity to make $100,000 off something that only cost $1500.

Google knows when you resell or loan the device because each device is registered under the buyer’s Google accounts.

Twitter add new keyword targeted ads feature

Twitter, the microblogging company has again rolled out a new feature that will allow marketers get their brands to the knowledge of potential users at the right time. The new feature was rolled out by the San Francisco company on Wednesday according to Twitter Product Manager Nipon Malhutra blog post.
She said the new feature won't change or affect users Twitter feeds, saying they can dismiss promoted tweets if they so desire.
The new feature is a keyword targeted ads that brings out sponsored ads according to what keywords the user typed in.

Shocking revelation: people spend more time on Tumblr than Twitter or Facebook.

This is so shocking to me. When I first read the news, I was like 'David are you serious?'. Facebook and Twitter have billions and millions of users all over the world, but when it comes to the number of times a visitor or member spend on a platform, Tumblr according to David, Facebook and Twitter are far behind.
In an interview with Paidcontent in NewYork, CEO of Tumblr David Karp said members spent 14 minutes per visit on the blogging platform.
The reason? well he said it's 'media'---what you need  to do before checking an email.
Few weeks ago, Tumblr hit 100.1 million blogs and more than 80.2 million blog post have created each day. It was ranked 9th most visited website in the U.S last year with 61.3 million local visitors and nearly 170 million visitors worldwide.

Lamborghini Veneno named ugliest car of all time

The America car Authority website, Edmunds named it the ugliest car of all time.
What's your take on this?

Galaxy S4 officially announced in the US by Samsung

More updates coming soon....

Toyota Prius/hybrid car hit 5 million sales globally.

On Wednesday at the Toyota’s Tokyo office, Vice Chairman Takesh Uchiyamada, who is the brain behind the team that designed the Prius, told reporters that the auto maker has sold more than 5 million hybrid cars as at late march, after it first went on sale16 years ago.

The hybrid passenger car uses a technology that delivers low gas usage by recharging the engines as it travels.

When Toyota first released the car in the U.S, people were in agreement that they would not need such a car since prices of gas is low then. But now, the price of gas has skyrocketed and people are flocking to get the Prius.

The hybrid car even helps to deliver electricity to disaster zones after the Tsunami quake in Japan on March 2011.

For the first time in a single year, the global sale of the hybrid car hit 1.2 million in 2012.

Biography Movie of Steve Job 'iSteve'' released today

Comedy website Funny or die released the much anticipated biography movie of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The movie titled 'iSteve'' is a 79 minute video of the life and times of Apple great leader.
The casts are Jorge Garcia who will star as Apple co-founder Steve Woznaic while James Urbaniac and Michaela Watkins will both star as Bill and Melinda Gates in the movie.
Mind you, don't get yourself confused with other two movies out there which Ashton Kutcher played Steve Jobs

Alcatel launches world thinnest and lightest Android phones in India

Earlier this year, at the Consumer Electronics Show(CES), Alcatel announced two Android phones at the event which it claimed to be the world thinnest and lightest Android phones.
Recently, the phone maker launched the two Android phones---the one touch Idol extra(thinnest) and the other, one touch Idol(lightest) in India. These phone will sell at Rs21000 and Rs15,800.
Those living in India can pick up these phones at Idea Cellular Network.

WhatsApp hit 200 million users monthly

Just weeks after it was rumoured that Google planned to acquire the mobile messaging app, WhatsApp recently hit more than 200 million active users. WhatsApp milestone was broke out by CEO Jam Koum at an event in New York City.
In a day, 12 billion messages are sent out and 8 billion inbound messages. WhatsApp is great app no doubt.

Fujitsu develop a device that turns paper into a touchscreen

Fujitsu won't kill us with its 'terrific' technology. The firm recently developed a device that turns paper into a touchscreen. Watch the video presentation above.

World fastest personal internet launched by Sony in Japan

Pictured above is a ''Nuro'' fiber  service which can support a download speed of 2gbps and boast 1gbps upload

Google could start shipping Glass in the next few days

Google is too anxious to get Glass in the hands of Explorers. In an email, the search giant said instead of waiting for all the device to be ready before shipment, it will start to ship out the device in next few days to ''2000'' individuals who preordered the device last year in San Francisco.
See the email below

Are you excited?

YouTube launches live streaming app for iOS

On Monday, Youtube launched its 1.3 app for iOS. With the YouTube 1.3 for iOS, iPod, iPhone and iPad users can now watch live streaming event on their mobile operating system anywhere they are in the world.
Apart from the live stream support, it has ''my subscription feed'' which also let iOS users to queue up and watch YouTube videos on their TV.
You can download the YouTube I.3 for iOS directly from Apple app store.

 

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Next generation very light car unveiled by Edinson2

It is only a prototype and has already won the Automotive X-Prize champ . The firm said no production plans yet, but  said the car could sell for $20,000 when fully developed.

World largest telescope construction approved

Plans by the two U.S universities and Canadian universities---the University of California System, the Californai Institute of Technology and the Association of Canadain Universities for Research in Astronomy to build a massive 30 meter optical telescope at the summit of Hawaiian Mauna Volcano have been given go-ahead on Friday by the Hawaiian board of Land and Natural Resources.
The project, which is expected to cost $1 billion, will help Scientists get images of space and monitor how new planets and stars are formed.
The telescope should be able get image of object in space 13 billion light years away.