All Things Technology

My friend, gone are the days when you had to make flimsy excuses to
your boss, like, 'am away from my computer, can't complete the task,
goodnight'!
Microsoft today released its Android version of Office 365 to its
subscribers. Just a few weeks after it released the iPhone version of
Office 365.
Those who subscribed to Office 365 monthly or yearly, will be able to
use the app on their Android devices. A month subscription for Office
365 is $9.99, while yearly subscription is $99.99.
What about my datum? don't worry, Data is saved in Microsoft's
SkyCloud, so all of the documents, presentations, and spreadsheets are
accessible from users' desktop or laptop versions of Office.

In an attempt to boost its connection to current events and breaking
news, Facebook is making the social network's public content more
accessible to news outlets with the Wednesday release of embedded
posts. The new feature is intended to let media organizations, and
eventually everyone else, embed public Facebook updates such as
photos, videos, hashtags, and other posts from people or
Pages on their own Web sites. Viewers of the embedded content can
"like" or share stories, as well as like the Page or follow the person
who originally authored the content. At launch, just a small group of
media outlets including CNN, Huffington Post, and People magazine will
be able to embed Facebook updates in their stories. A company
spokesperson said the feature would roll out more broadly to users
"soon." "Today, we are beginning to roll out Embedded Posts to make it
possible for people to bring the most compelling, timely public posts
from Facebook to the rest of the Web," Facebook software engineer Dave
Capra said in a
statement. "Every day, public figures, journalists, and millions of
regular people share their thoughts on what's happening around the
world on Facebook publicly." Where available, an "Embed Post" option
will show up in the drop-down menu for public updates and, on click,
generate a snippet of code that can be pasted on Web sites and blogs.
The embedded post release comes on the heels of hashtags, which the
social network added in June to create a link to current affairs, and
supplements Instagram's new Web embed feature. The embedded posts
feature is ultimately meant to make Facebook a relevant part of pop
culture and news stories, an area where Twitter has long reigned
supreme.

In the PC world Asus is number one no doubt, but entering a crowded
smartphone market already dominated by the likes of Samsung, Apple, LG
and Sony is not a ball game.
Asus announced that it will enter the US smartphone market in 2014. It
mentioned that it has already building relationships with carries and
retailers, which the guys over there believe is an essential pillar
for the company to succeed.
For clarity, Asus already sells mobile phones outside the United
States of America.
Asus is a newcomer in the smartphone market already dominated by
Samsung and Apple, even Sony and LG find it difficult to keep up, do
you think Asus can survive ?

The Galaxy Note II is good about sharing.

The German carmaker said the projected range for its i3 standard
model would be about 80-100 miles on a single charge.

If you are a car owner out there, this piece of information is
important. Do not conclude that it is common knowledge or not consider
it possible because one has to physically connect the required tools
in order to hijack a car.
Two US security experts used a laptop to take over a car from the
actual driver---a Toyota Prius and a 2013 Ford Escape. How they did
it? Well, it wasn't an easy task though . They had to connect their
laptop to the car electronic control units(ECUs), that computer
network that controls all functional units of a car, such as braking,
steering , horn and monitors displays.
By these, they wrote softwares which they used to instructions to the
car computer network, and were able to control the car remotely from
the actual driver.

Michael Ikpoki, currently the CEO of MTN Ghana, has been appointed the
new CEO of the company, thus, MTN Nigeria first chief executive
officer.
Ikpoki replaces Brett Goschen, who took on the role of MTN Group chief
financial officer and executive financial director.Ikpoki was
appointed CEO of MTN Ghana in April 2011 after successfully running
MTN Nigeria's sales and distribution channel as its executive from
2016.
He joined MTN in 2001 as a regulatory advisor after a six-year stint
with the Nigerian Communications Commission.
As they say, hardwork pays; you deserve it sir.

It has so many advantages over the iPad Mini no doubt, but can Acer
dent the tablet market dominated by Apple with the lconia W3?

Just when hackers are trying to get over the death of Aaron Swartz,
another celebrated computer Hacker, Barnaby Jack dies, at 35. l read
he died a week before making a presentation at a hacking conference.
News of his death was broke by a neighbour who found him dead on
Thursday Evening at an appartment in San francisco . What led to Jack
death is yet to be known. Sources say it could take a month before the
autopsy results could be determined.
Barnaby Jack was known as the computer hacker who forced bank ATMs to
spit out cash and sparked safety improvements in medical devices.

On Monday, l reported that Apple's developer website was hacked. And
that a UK based Hacker, Ibrahim Balic claimed responsibility. The
Hacker showed proof that he had grab personal informations of 100000
registered developers. But according to a Guardian investigation,
Ibrahim Balic claims may be wrong.
How? in the first instance, Balic said he used cross-site scripts(XSS)
bug in the website and found 13 issues, which he reported all found
bugs to Apple between 16 and 20 July.
However XSS attacks generally require the attacker — which in this
case would be Balic — to "infect" a page, in this case Apple's, with a
malicious piece of Javascript or HTML which
would then be used to extract data from a visiting user. If Balic's
claim is correct, he seems to have used the XSS exploits against his
own system.

Balic offered to provide proof of his hack by sharing some details of
the file with the Guardian, and provided the emails for 19 people; the
Guardian also extracted another 10 from an email Balic put on YouTube
in which he apparently showed how he hacked the site. (He has since
made the video private.) But attempts by the Guardian two days ago to
contact 29 of the group whose details Balic claims to have acquired
found that seven of the emails bounced — because the email is no
longer operational — and not a single one of the others has responded
to a request to say whether they are registered with Apple. Nor could
any of the emails or names be discovered online — which would be
unusual for any active developer.

This tablet features a black-on-black design that looks a whole lot
like the original Nexus 7. It's slimmer and lighter than the first
Nexus 7, but unless you're holding the original slate and the new one
in either hand, you're probably not going to notice much difference.

This picture was sent me by one of my avid reader who lives in the
US(California) what's your take on this?

The first time l read this news, l was like..., My gosh! so some
mothers do have them. You embezzled your employer money and now you
want people to help you out. Anyways, am not in the best position to
judge.
Renata Shamrakova created two American Express cards in her boss name,
and used the cards to booked into expensive hotels, and even bought
expensive jewelries, all worth $821,000. A whole lot of money right?
But now, she has to pay the money or go to jail. What can she do?

Shamrakova has created a page on Go Fund Me. She would like you to go
there and give her money. Wil you help her?

The approach utilizes thousands of sensors that form an electronic
sheet over a mattress to detect in real time the precise distribution
of pressure across the mattress. The system links up with a handheld
monitoring device that
displays images of pressure distribution and sounds alarms if patients
need to be turned. It even keeps a history of the patient's
positioning that caregivers can access across multiple shifts.

Just two months ago, lntel launched its 4th generation quad core
processors, code-named Haswell. It seems Apple has been staying close
to lntel latest technologies. The first Haswell powered Notebook is
here, and it is Apple MacBook Air for 2013. There are so many specs,
but the 12-hour battery life really move me.

Why Leave Your Private Jet When You Can Have Your Hotel Come to You?

Yesterday, Nokia disclosed that it will unveil something big today.
Well, the Finnish phone maker finally let out the big secret when it
unveiled its largest Lumia phone to date, the Lumia 625. Though the
new phone is not quite a ''phablet'' by today's standards.
Spec highlights include a 4.7-inch WVGA display, A 1.2GHz
Snapdragon
S4 processor, 512GB of RAM, 8GB of memory, microSDXC
support, 4G LTE and a 5-megapixel camera.

As Americans, both Blacks and Whites, take to the streets demanding
justice for Trayvon Martin, the unarmed kid who was killed by a White,
George Zimmerman, but was later found not guilty, one young man wants
to take the law into his hands.
On July 13, 20 year-old Remel Nelson, like any other angry American,
is angry at Zimmerman's verdict. To air his grievances, he took to
Facebook and updated his status. He wrote ''#kill al Whites'', and
went on ''let's kill cops and neighborhood''. Come on man, you got it
all wrong.
On July 17, nemesis caught up with him. he was arrested by a New York
Police department, after they saw the post. He was also charge with
unlawful possession of marijuana.
However, he confessed to Police that he made a mistake. But his lawyer
claims her client only copied and pasted the post from someone profile
onto his.

So advanced is the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class that not one traditional
incandescent lightbulb can be found anywhere on it; not in its
headlamps, its tail lamps, its mood-setting ambient lighting or its
instrument cluster. In fact, you could easily correlate one LED bulb
for every time
that Mercedes-Benz has referred to its redesigned flagship as not only
the best S-Class it has ever built, but the best car ever built.

Nokia earlier today posted a message on its website saying it will
unveil something big tomorrow. In my opinion, l think it may probably
be an unveiling of its first phablet. But the Finnish phone maker
refused to let the cat out of the bag. Editor of Nokia Conversations
Ian Delaney wrote: "We can't tell you what it is yet. But we can tell
you when. Tune in tomorrow at 9am UK time. See you then!". Should we
be expecting a Lumia Phablet?

Apple lnc disclosed that its developers website was hacked on
Thursday. Suggesting that the hacker may have gotten hold of emails,
names and mailing addresses of its developers, thereby taken it
offline in order to fix it.
However, one Turkish security researcher, Ibrahim Balic has claimed
responsibility. According to him, he only wanted to show that Apple's
system were leaking developers personal informations. He even posted a
video on YouTube which showed that the portal is prone to attack. He
alerted all found bugs to Apple but have not received anything reply
from them since. In his own words ''my aim was to report bugs and
collect datum for the purpose of seeing how deep to go with it''.

Can you name 3? What does a social media rockstar mean to you?Is it
the people with the most followers/fans? Is it the most interesting &
popular experts in their fields?
Let me know your thoughts in the comment.

Motorola's first major release under Google's ownership looms
near as the company recently sent out media invitations to an
August 1 event in New York. Unlike cryptic invitations from
Apple that are open to interpretation, Motorola made no effort
to hide what they plan to reveal on the first of the month – the
Moto X smartphone. One source claiming to have used the handset told
The Verge it features a display that's roughly 4.5-inches in size and
is
powered by a dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon MSM8960T
processor, 2GB of system memory and has a removable Kevlar
rear shell. Additional rumors from around the web point to
16GB of internal flash memory, a front-facing 2-megapixel
camera and a 10-megapixel rear camera – all running Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2.

Google has finally hit the 50 billion downloads milestone, according
to CEO Larry Page. Page announced this new feat during the company's
recent second quarter earnings call.

Sony has confirmed that its new gaming console, the PS4 will support wireless headsets of the PS3, unlike the Xbox One which does not support wireless headsets of Xbox 360.
Also, Sony’s next-generation console will also ship with its own mono headset in earbud form out of the box, alongside the usual bits and bobs such as a DualShock 4 controller, power cable, USB adapter and HDMI cable.

The basic PS4 package will set you back $399/£349 this holiday season, though there are bound to be various bundles on offer, too. Launch titles include Killzone: Shadow Fall, Knack, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and DriveClub among others.

Google recently sent invitations to media on Wednesday, which probably means the search giant is getting ready to unveiled its next generation Nexus tablets, come July 24. The event will be hosted by Sundar Pichai (SOON-dahr pihch-EYE), a Google executive who oversees the company's Android and Chrome operating systems.

You no longer need an email invitation to test out the overhauled
Google Maps web experience. Unveiled two months ago at I/O, the
completely rethought, vector-based
Maps makeover is now available to all users; you simply
need to visit Google for instant access to the beta. The
Maps team says it's been listening closely to feedback since
revealing an all-new take on one of the internet's most vital
tools, and promises further improvements "to make the experience even
better." Aside from bringing Maps in line
with Google's other recent software offerings, the new UI
includes a wealth of new contextual information, improved
prediction capabilities, and edge-to-edge content. We took a look at
the redesigned interface back in May, and the below video should give
you a good sense of what to
expect once you commit to making the switch.


Source theverge

Some people are REALLY funny. What has Apple got to do with your sex life or family. Why many would lash back at me for these comments, but  before you jump into conclusions, think! Below is how Thesun is reporting it....
Chris Sevier, 36, claims that his addiction started when he “accidentally” replaced the “a-c-e” in Facebook with a “u-c-k”.
The Tennessee dad said the "F***book" site “appealed to his biological sensibilities as a male,” and he started to prefer the images on the screen to his own wife.
He is now suing

Yahoo is now allowing people to place claims on inactive email
addresses that are being given a second life. The opportunity to
request the identifications began Monday and will extend through
August 7. Up to five different names can be submitted at http://
. Yahoo Inc. says a substantial number of old email
IDs are being made available, but isn't providing specifics. All the
deactivate

Microsoft has reduced price of its first ever computer, the Surface
down to 30 percent due to low sales. The Surface which debuted in
October last year, has only found favour with few consumers---selling
just 900,000 units in each of its first two quarters on the market.
The last time l checked Microsoft website, the least-expensive Surface
model which sells before at $499,.now goes for $399. The Surface model
with a keyboard will now sale at $499 as against its previous price of
$599.

Apple Inc is investigating an accident in which a Chinese woman was
killed by an electric shock when answering a call on her iPhone 5
while it was charging, the U.S. technology company said on Monday.
Last Thursday, Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old woman from China's western
Xinjiang region and a flight attendant with China Southern Airlines,
was electrocuted when she took a call on the charging mobile
telephone, the official Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying on
Sunday. "We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and
offer our condolences to the Ma family.
We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this
matter," Apple said in an e-mail. Apple declined to comment on
details, such as whether this was an isolated case. Ma's sister
tweeted on Sina's microblog saying that Ma collapsed and died after
using her charging iPhone 5 and urged users to be careful, a message
that went viral on the site. In April, Apple apologized to Chinese
consumers and altered iPhone warranty policies in its second-biggest
market after its after-sales service suffered more more than two weeks
of condemnation by the state- run media.


Source Reuters

If you're short of nightmare fuel, say hello to Atlas. On Thursday,
DARPA unveiled this hulking, 6-foot robot developed by Boston
Dynamics, creator of the infamous BigDog and other scary creatures.
Surprisingly, the 330-pound terror is designed to help us meatsacks.
Atlas is a testbed humanoid for disaster response, but it looks like
it knows its way around a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt
range. Fortunately, it comes from Massachusetts, not the future. We've
seen hints of A

Here's a definitive sign that Americans have taken multitasking way
too far: They're looking at their smartphones while doing it. Nearly
20 percent of young adult smartphone owners in the U.S. between the
ages of 18 and 34 use their smartphones during sex, and nearly 1 in
ten U.S. adults who own smartphones use them during sex. The survey
from Harris Interactive on behalf of startup Jumio did not ask
respondents what they are "using" the phones for. Perhaps there's
somethingmuch more kinky going on here.
Probably though it's just a lot of people surreptitiously glancing at
their iPhones to see if they got a text or a new
comment on their Facebook post. Smartphones are also impacting our
relationships in other ways: According to
the study, 33 percent of adults use them while on dinner dates, and 35
percent use them while at the movies. 12
percent of people reported that they feel that their smartphone gets
in the way of their relationship. At least we recognize it's an issue,
right? Harris Interactive conducted its online survey of more than
1,100 U.S. adults between June 13 and June 17, 2013, and the results
were a startlingly reminder of just how tethered to technology we've
become. Take a look at the other places people admit to using their
smartphones: Perhaps most unsettling: Despite the many safety hazards
of texting while driving, 55 percent of respondents said that they use
a smartphone while driving. Even though using a hand-held cellphone
while driving is illegal in 11 states, and texting while driving is
illegal in 41 states.

Search giant Google is reportedly planning to develop its wearable computing device Google Glass for dogs with occupation.

According to New York Post, Google has teamed up with Georgia Institute of Technology, in order to develop a wearable computer system that could give bomb-sniffing and cadaver dogs an easier way to communicate with their handlers, or even let man see the world through an animal's eyes.

The project called FIDO (Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations) could allow pooches to bite down on or othe

Although Apple and Google have watched their relationship deteriorate
over the last several years, the search giant's executive chairman,
Eric Schmidt, says things are getting better. Speaking to Reuters in
an interview published on Thursday, Schmidt said that Google's
relationship with Apple has improved over the past year, and the two
companies are now holding "lots and lots" of meetings related to "a
long list of issues." Schmidt, who was once an Apple board member,
found himself at the epicenter of a war that broke out between Apple
and Google over mobile operating systems. The late Apple co- founder
Steve Jobs had said that he was willing to go to "thermonuclear war"
with Google over the Android mobile operating system, which he
believed was designed to capitalize on Apple's own creation, iOS.
Since Jobs' death in October 2011, Apple hasn't publicly improved
relations with Google, and last year, decided to remove both YouTube
and Google Maps from iOS. The move was viewed as a not-so-subtle jab
at the search company. Whether Apple is having a change of heart at
this point, however, is unknown.

Nokia established a new benchmark in smartphone imaging with the
arrival of the Nokia Lumia 1020, boasting a second
generation 41 megapixel sensor. Unlike any smartphone in the market
today the Nokia Lumia 1020 reinvents zoom, enabling people to discover
more detail than the eye can see. With Nokia's innovative technology,
including optical image stabilisation, the device is able to produce
some of the sharpest images possible by any digital camera. We want to
take people on a journey from capturing pictures to recording and
sharing their lives, said Stephen Elop President and CEO Nokia.

Snakes and mice strike a rare partnership on this new Artist Series
Mobile Mouse from Microsoft Hardware: http://msft.it/ 6034ZrEE

The next time you let your toddler play with your
smartphone, you better keep a close eye on him. Take it from Oregon
dad Paul Stoute, who is now the proud owner of a beat up 1962 Austin
Healey Sprite after he left his phone unattended around his
14-month-old daughter, Sorella. According to local news reports, the
toddler grabbed her dad's unlocked phone last month, opened up the
eBay app, and started clicking around. She then managed to
bid on the vintage car, and actually won! Fortunately for her parents,
the toddler managed to snag the car for just $225. Stoute didn't
realize what happened until he opened up his email and saw a
congratulatory message from eBay informing him he.had won the auction.
Initially, he was in a state of shock. "Tap, tap, tap and now I own a
car," Stoute told Fox 12 Oregon. "Fortunately, she didn't buy the
$38,000 Porsche." Before the incident, Stoute had been looking for
cars on eBay, thinking he might take on a remodeling
project with a friend. The Austin Healey might have been just what he
was looking for. Listed in the eBay ad as a "Frankensprite," the car
has two engines —both of which are in the back seat. Stoute is
planning to fix up the car, and hopes to give it to Sorella as a
present for her 16th birthday
or high school graduation. Until then, the Stoute family is taking
more precautions with their smartphones. They've
password protected their devices, and uninstalled any apps that can be
used to make a purchase. "It cannot happen again," said Sorella's
mother.

Of the phones, which one do you think is the fastest? let me know your thoughts in the comment(please don't spam).

Africa is not just about disease, famine war or crimes. Amazing things happen in Africa. In fact, Africa is now the new home of technology, believe it or not. Two young Burkina Faso students recently proved me right when they created a soap out of Shea butter that help fight against malaria.
According to them, the soap dubbed Fasoap, when used, leaves a ''pleasant smell'' on the skin that helps repel mosquitoes. The

Sooner or later the whole web will be filled with photos from Instagram, the photo sharing service just made it so easy for users to embed pictures and videos on the web. The service which was launched earlier today will allow users to embed videos and pictures into websites, blogs or articles by 'copy' and paste' HTML link of the content. For those of you who are more concerned about how your content would be
used, Instagram disclosed that the  content will appear with the original creator's name. Also, the service is only available to users with public profiles.