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It seems Nokia former CEO Stephen Elop would have to look for other ways to be part of the candidates to lead Microsoft. Reports have it that Ford boss Alan Mullaly and Satya Nadella,
Vice President Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group, are the key persons to take up the role of the company new CEO, after current CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he would retire
at the end of this year.

To me, Ford Boss is the right man for the job. He has the skills and experience to bring back Microsoft to life as a leading tech company as it once were. He has done it for Ford and can still do it again for Microsoft.

I had a telephone conversation with a U.S based Blogger this week and, in the middle of our conversation, he made mention of some millionaire Bloggers, some of whom I know and read about, who make millions from their blogs. After listening to him talked so much about them ,I decided to put a question to him. I asked him how much the blog industry in America is worth, since he said most of them are millionaire bloggers; earning more than anyone would in other parts of the world.

Well, what he told me that day really shocked me. Would you believe he said the America blog is worth more over $250,000,000 . Although I do not doubt or disagree with him, but I don't buy the figures he quoted. Am sitting on the fence now. That's an outstanding figure don't you think?

So I want to ask is it worth the figure he said?

You know, some mothers do have them. I mean why would any man want to sell his testicles to get himself a new car? Imagine yourself seeing a car one day and the next thing that comes into you was 'I love that car, how about selling my body part to get it ?' but do you know a man is planing to do just that

While on CBS the Doctors show, a man named Mark Parisi told everyone present at the show that he plans to sell his testicles for $35,000 to buy himself a new Nissan 370. I feel like throwing up right now.

Now would you sell your body part in order to get a new car? That's one question I put to you.

With all due respect , I totally disagree with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg that teenagers are still active on Facebook as they did when they first discovered it. That's not true. Teenagers, not just those in the U.S, are dumping Facebook. The social network is...should I say...boring? yeah something like that.

Now everyone is expecting China Mobile to name Apple as her new brand partner, right? Let me scare Apple a bit. What if China Mobile announcement is not centered around Apple?

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that China Mobile, the world largest wireless carrier, said it has a big announcement planned for December 18. But it didn't tell us what company would be its new brand partner. But on Hearing the news, many tech analysts expect Apple to be name the wireless carrier latest partner. Having seen the two companies over the past two years in talks about the deal.


If China Mobile announced that Apple is her new mobile brand partner, China will then become Apple largest market. China Mobile alone has more than 759 million subscribers and moreover, analysts forecast that nearly 76 million of China Mobile subscribers could be interested in getting an iPhone. More sales for Apple.

Over the past few years, Apple has been in talks on an iPhone for the world largest wireless carrier, but the deal never came through, due to a number of reasons including that its 3G service is.not compatible with the iPhone technology and also China Mobile wanted to get some cakes from App store revenue generated from Apple customers purchases.

Facebook-owned video and photo sharing service, Instagram, plans to roll out a private messaging feature at the end of this year, In a bid to make the service more appealing to users and also to bring in more people to the site. The new features will show up in Instagram next update.

This is a post by Funka Osae-Brown of Businessday.

It was on the evening of Wednesday, October 23, 2013 that I received a call from someone close to me. She had left the house earlier that day to complete her one-week branch attachment, the last phase of her six weeks training with Union Bank.

According to the latest report from the Korean Times suggests that Apple plans to launch a 12-inch iPad early next year, which many said could go by the name as a iPad Max or Maxi, to compete with the likes of Samsung and LG, also working on tablet with bigger screens.

The move is for Apple to meet the rising demand for larger tablet and smartphones as demand for PC has slowdown.

Don't be surprise the next time you come to Computer Village, in Ikeja, Lagos to get a phone or other computer items but be told that the 'Nigeria ''Silicon Valley,'' so to speak has been moved to Katangowa Internet City in Oke ode area of the state. The move is is line with the directives of the Lagos State Government to move all computer dealers to the Internet City in the first quarter of 2014.

I am so happy reading this. At long last the world most popular photo-sharing app Instagram is now on Windows mobile. Instagram launched the app today and said Windows phone users can download the beta version from the Windows phone store.

Whether you are a Professional when it comes to using social media, you still have a lot to learn about the Microblogging site Twitter. It goes beyond hashtags or trending stories; Twitter is more than that. Now want to learn how to understand and use Twitter more effectively? then watch the Twitter guide video above!

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After unveiling its smartwatch, in, Qualcomm has announced a date which the $350 device will be available to customers. It was revealed that the device will go on sale on December 2, this year. With that, Qualcomm will join the likes of Samsung, Pebble and Sony in the smartwatch market, a market many tech analyst believes is the next ''Billion-dollars'' market.

Unlike before when you only see your list of friends who are online, without getting to know which one is on mobile or web, Facebook can now let users distinguish between their friends who are currently online on mobile and those on web(desktop). The feature was rolled out today. I heard Facebook is testing the new feature. Whatever that may be, I can't figure out why Facebook decided to do this, but only time will tell.

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At the request of UK's Prime Minister David Cameroun at an internet summit on child safety, Google and Microsoft have both decided to adjust their engines in such a way that search terms related child abuse materials will be blocked. Google said it has tweaked its search engine to block 100,000 search terms related to the topic.

Barely a week after Taiwanese PC maker made its entry into the Nigeria Tablet, with the introduction of the Asus Fonepad, Nigeria second largest telecom operator Globacom has decided to take the boat from Asus. The telecom operator at a fair(West Africa Information Communication and Technology exhibition) which took place on Thursday in Lagos introduced the Asus Fonepad and some of its high-end

Snap Skype to anything with Windows 8.1 And now that you can run multiple apps at once, it's even easier to bring your friends into the things you love with Skype.

I haven't had an opportunity of testing the Google Nexus 5, but on based on the production video and positive reviews by Cnet and Zdnet, I would say the phone offers a great value for your money.

Report from TabTimes suggests that the second-generation Google Nexus 10 could be available for sale as early as next week. As you know, the Nexus 10 was spotted on Google Playstore earlier this week, suggesting a November 21 launch. That could render the report as valid.

Seriously when I first read that Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel turned down Facebook $3 billion acquisition offer, I said to myself, this guy is 'nut'. Why would a 23-year-old reject a $3 billion offer for his two-year-old startup? well, as the saying goes ''there is always a  reason.''

If you thought BlackBerry was done with the release of BBM app for Android and iOS, you had better think again.

 BlackBerry messenger is now available on iPad and iPod touch and also an update to fix some bugs on Android and iOS devices, which causes the battery to drain . The app works only on Wi-Fi-only iPads and iPod touch.

The Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone is now available for preorder on Etisalat Nigeria for the price of N132,000. As you can see in the picture above, customers who preorder the device are entitled to a lot of bundle benefits: EasyFlex 5,000(as seen in the picture)

Holiday is around the corner and so many consumers will start shopping for gifts for their love ones.With  this in mind, Acer has just released its C720 Chromebook with Intel Haswell-Celeron processor, which offers 8.4 hours of battery life. The C720 Chromebook was original priced at $250, but Acer has said it will cost just $200.

The sleek design of the is now available for AT&T wireless customers in black on November 22 for $400 with a two-year contract, but you can bypass the standard two year agreement and pay $200 for the device when you buy either the Lumia, 1020, 925, or 1520 smartphone.

That's one big question on  the lips of those who trade online.

In short, generally, the stock exchange market is a medium whereby companies can quickly raise funds and also for investors to make money from those they invested in. But as it is now, it seems the internet might cause them to suffer a great loss. This is so because recently, we have seen the internet now has a great impact on the stock market.

BlackBerry has yet again sent out a message that the Canadian smartphone maker can still be alive, when it announced that it has completed all necessary financing from FairFax Financial Holdings and other investors, which invested $1 billion in the company. The Canadian firm also handed out his pink slip to some of its employees.

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Taiwanese PC maker, Asus at a media launch on Wednesday in Lagos, Asus announced that it has entered the Nigeria devices tablet market; a market which analysts says is worth N245 billion

Yesterday morning in at a launch event in Sao Paulo, Brazil Google-owned Motorola unveiled its second smartphone after the search giant acquired it, the Moto G, a 4.5-inch Android smartphone.

In a bid to bring more people into the Google Glass Explorer program, Google now allows you to be part of the family. The page suggests that resident in the US, who are interested in getting their own device, can now wait in line and whenever a new spot opens up, they will be notified.

Google plans to make its wearable computer, Glass, to be more useful by the time it reaches the public. As such, the search giant has launched ''sound search'' on the gadget. The feature will allow glass users to select and play music, just as they would on a PC, but hands free by simply saying ''OK Glass.''

For those of us that uses phones with front-facing cameras, I mean webcams, Researchers at the University of Cambridge gave us a security warning that a phone PIN could be revealed by its camera and microphone.

As part of its plans to bring internet access worldwide, Facebook has joined the league of mobile operators, GSMA(GSM Association) a group formed to standardize and promote the GSM mobile telephone system.By joining the wireless carriers group, Facebook aim at promoting its internet.org mission of connecting the whole world online.

The European Satellite, the (GOCE) burned up on Sunday over Falkland Island, an Island located in the South Atlantic Ocean( just as I predicted).

The news has cleared the air on where or when the spacecraft might land. Eyewitness say they saw the spacecraft burned up at about 9:20pm on Sunday night. Breaking up in two as it came from the South heading to North.

Sometime in May, Google rolled out ''quick action buttons'' on Gmail to enable its users get things done in an instant. Gmail users were able to respond to messages with attachment as soon as they can without leaving the inbox. Now the search giant is expanding  the ''quick action buttons'' feature by allowing users to respond to emails quickly.

The evergreen smiling Bill Gates is currently in Nigeria. The Microsoft boss came into the country today for  a polio eradication campaign in the country, as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of finding a lasting solution to the symptom. The good news is polio cases in Nigeria have dropped by more than 50%.

Why would anyone wait in line for an iPhone 5S a month and half after it went on sale? that's strange. But some Apple customers don't think so.

Vodafone, the world-second largest telecommunication company with over 439 million subscribers, has failed to meet a deadline set by Ofcom for providing 3G service to 90% of UK population. Vodafone only managed to reach 88.6%. Vodafone is the only network operator, among EE, O2 and three, to missed the deadline set by Ofcom.

An Apple insider who asked not to be identified because the information is classified told Bloomberg that Apple next iPhone models will come with curve displays and enhance touchscreen sensors, that can detect heavy and light touches.

It could land on Saturday,Sunday or Monday, but no one knows where or when it might land. But if you do your research very well, you will find out  most of these satellite fall in the Pacific ocean. Let us hope that be where it might  land.

already rolled out to some users

Later this month, Facebook will release the 5 star rating system for pages, a feature presently available only on the social network mobile website, will be move from mobile to desktop. The new feature will allow Facebook users to rate, comment on  a business page and also to let them discover more businesses that target their interest around them.

That's what I call ''magnicarto!'' a car that tells you ahead before a disaster occur, is every driver dream. And Tesla just built one.

The owner of a Tesla model, Juris Shibayama an MD from Tennessee, said  his car had a collision with three-pronged trailer hitch on Thursday. As a result of the collision with the trailer, his car caught fire,but the man said something that shocked us all ''I would  buy another in a heartbeat.''

Seriously, Apple should have a compensation plan in place for would-be victims of the iPad, every year a new iPad lineup is launched.  People should take care when charging their iPad devices as it could explode when overcharge. I remember who was flung across the room when tried to pull his 8-year-old daughter iPad Mini  from the socket, but the tablet charger gave him a tip of the iceberg of  how death is.

Imagine you are in a bus, and someone say to you ''hey, robot will run on Urine?'' what will your answer be?

 Scientists  at the university of Bristol and the university of the West England built a new system that see will future robots run on urine as fuel. To accomplish their mission, they built an artificial heart which will pump urine, turning waste from live microorganisms as source of electricity to power the robot.

A new in-flight  app from Gogo that will allow passengers text and even make phone calls, as they would on ground while on a plane has been launched on Friday(today). Users can download the Gogo app from Google Play store and Apple store.

Cnet was showed how it works by Gogo aboard a private jet . Here's the report from Cnet

Report reaching us suggest AT&T and Microsoft have started accepting preorders for the Nokia Lumia 1520. Customers can preorder the device at $199 with a two year agreement, or pay the regular price of $585, or pay $27 for 20 months via AT&T online store and in-store. AT&T disclose that it will ship on November 19. The phone will be available in black, red, white and yellow.

Google ebooks are now available in South Africa. South Africans now have access to Google online book where they can download and read ebook on their devices. With this, the total number of countries that have access to Google ebooks is 39, a figure below that of Amazon at 170. The news makes South Africa the first on the content to have access to Google ebook.

Two years ago, September to precise, personal transport pods were unveiled at Heathrow airport to eliminate more than 50,000 bus journeys on Heathrow's roads between the terminal 5 business car park and the main terminal. Now pods are going to be used on roads in Milton Keynes.