All Things Technology

Come on, where are all the liars? come out here, time to see if you are really good at the false things you say, since childhood. You got just 5 to stress the capital Q on your forehead. Draw the capital letter Q on your forehead. Some People who draw the letter in a way that could be read by someone else facing them are more likely to be aware of how others see them. These people tend to extroverted, and thus better at lying. But people who draw the Q facing so that they themselves can read the letter are less likely to know how other people view them, and thus more introverted. These people tend to be worse liars.

By now I believe we all know the Galaxy S4 is Samsung latest flagship smartphone( at least before the S5 comes in) and it comes with brilliant hardware and mind-blowing features like the Scroll eye tracking, which let use pause a music by looking away.
The device has a 5-inch 1080p HD display and it is good for watching videos, pictures and surfing the web. But when you have friends around who are eager to watch with you on the smartphone, you find out the 5-inch screen is not big enough, thus you might want to watch those videos on your 60-inch HDTV. Lucky you, there are two ways to connect your S4 to a TV--one is using wired connection and the other is using wireless. But in thIS case, we will used the wired connection. So here's how to connect the Galaxy S4 to a TV.

Scammers are always searching for new ways to trick people. This time around, they call you on phone and pretend to be Microsoft Technical Windows Support team, telling you that your with a virus and they want to help by fixing it, to trick you to have your computer hijack. Whereupon they used it to send viruses or spam without your knowledge. Have you receive such calls yet?

Let me ask, why did Microsoft include ''Sky'' to ''Drive'' in the first place? Knowing that it's a Broadcast trademark.My question is funny right.

While revealing its earnings report for the Q4 of 2013, which the phone maker stated it sold 13.2 million smartphones during that quarter, LG used the opportunity to announced that it will unveil a follow up of last year's G Pro, the G Pro 2 at an unnamed event next month.
LG did not reveal 'anything' about the device, but said it will be larger than the current G Pro, which sits at 5.5-inch with 2GB of RAM, 13-megapixel rear facing camera and 32GB of internal storage.

It's Etisalat!!!
Etisalat? Yes, Etisalat. Can anything good come out of Etisalat? Well,as for me,  I would say yes. For Christ sake give them credit. It's not easy to raked in 17 million subscribers in just 5 years as a telecom operator in Nigeria.
Much is expected from you, well done!

The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor's office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft has imaged the structure in high-energy X-rays for the first time, shown in blue. Lower-energy X-ray light previously detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in green and red.

There's been a lot of rumours about Apple upcoming device, the iPhone 6. Whether they are genuine reports or just pure imaginations, one thing we do know is that the iPhone 6 will surely come with one or two of these features.
The rumors have it that Apple will launch two iPhones this year, just as it did last year, but this time, they will come in different sizes, one 4.7-inches and another slightly larger than 5 inches. Apple would use metal for both devices.

Nigerians will begin to see ''made in Nigeria'' cars on our roads soon. Nissan Motors has announced that it is now ready to roll out the first ''made in Nigeria'' 4X4 SUV in April this year using the old Volkswagen assembly plant owned by its partners in Nigeria.
The Car maker has stated that it is possible to produce two-three million cars in the country annually and, has the potential of creating 490,000 jobs--both skilled and semi-skilled.

I feel confident each time I go through a review written from a consumer point of view. It makes the average consumer or non-techie to fully understand, learn and know more about the device he or she plans to buy; and this is as it should be.
Here's a review by Ben Uzor Jr of Businessday(Newspaper) on the

Never joke with a Sculptor!

The two sculptors  Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren placed the rabbit in the ear as a "small trademark" after being told they were not allowed to add their signatures to the trousers of the nine-metre bronze statue. They said the rabbit symbolized the tight deadline they were working under, as "haas" (rabbit) in Afrikaans also translated as haste. 

Last week Google acquired and the start-up took to blog about the news.  But after the announcement, many of its users were more concerned about how their information would be shared. It was reported that some of them quickly returned their thermostats upon hearing the news. So to let their minds be at peace, CEO Tony Fidel,  said in an interview that users' information will not be shared; but kept will be private and that there are no privacy policy changes for now, and if there were any, it would be sure to talk about it openly  and users can decide whether  to opt-in.

I won't stop throwing stones at the telecom operators in Nigeria until they do things the right way. Each time I write to correct their wrong doings, not very long, they often come up with a different motive; for the sake of satisfying themselves alone. The do no care whether subscribers are on the receiving end of their plans. Greedy telecom operators! No wonder the Holy Bible quote them as ''selfish and cruel.'' People who have a little something upstairs are able to know when you are telling them the truth. Some would never know and you just have to help them the best you can.

World largest maker of microchips, Intel, has said it will put new Arizona processor plant on hold following poor demand of Personal computers. Intel main source of revenue comes from selling of microprocessors.

Hey guys, I just found a super easy way to schedule Gmail messages to be sent when you are away from your keyboard. Well, it's a plug-in called Bloomerang, which can be downloaded at Boomeranggmail.com

I can imagine what it would look like. Everything you ask Google sounds a lot stupider when you actually ask Google.

I like this video a lot. What a great lesson to learn. Not every abandoned purses you see on the streets you pick up. You never can tell what is inside. You might find a snake in one. Watch as a Policeman walks into the trap. It's a prank but one that calls for some serious lessons.

Google is not all about smartphones, Glass, Televisions, computers and payment service. The tech giant is taken a deeper step into peoples homes  this time around. Google has acquired Palto Alto, Calif based start up Nest Lab, Co-founder by former Apple engineers Tony Fidel and Matt Roger in 2010, for $3.2bn. The company is known for designing and manufacturing internet-enabled home devices like the thermostats and smoke detectors.

An avid reader of this blog sent me an email yesterday asking me why do Nigerians have more than one mobile phone. The sender is based in the U.S.  He said he has visited Nigeria several times and noticed that ''98%'' of the people he met have two or three mobile phones. According to him, they are not just phones; but expensive ones. He wandered  why because the world has paints Nigeria as poor nation and considering country's ''present economic crisis.''

A new feature which Google integrated into its Gmail service, makes it possible for users' to send emails to strangers using Google+, the search giant social network. Google linking Gmail to Google+ has raised privacy concerns among users and privacy advocates.

Google glasses spotted on the Red Carpet at Golden Globe

We don't get to see what is going on when an operation is performed on a patient live.But with the coming of Google Glass, we may be part of the operation team or see the whole thing performed live.

Astronauts, all the over the world, claims they know so much about our planet, Earth. Go and call them here. They should brave themselves because I have some questions for them, and they must answer them.

According to a blog post, Facebook will let go of sponsored story advertisement to make room for new technologies. Starting April 9 Facebook finally retire sponsored story ads, That means, marketers still have up until April 9 to promote posts on the social network.

Now that Samsung 110-inch Ultra HDTV is nothing compared to this Sony Short-Throw Projector. I said so because it produces 4K images that sized up to 147 inches diagonally. That being said, this device doesn't come cheap.

In recogntion of its modest achievement in the field of ICT, World Bank through the Science Technology and Engineering Project(STEP) is supporting the installation of fibre-optic cables to expand access for wireless internet services in the University of Uyo and its environs.

It's been a long time we heard from Blackberry. Recent reports  from Blackberry community website BlackBerry Empire and confirmed by BlackBerry new CEO John Chen at CES, have it that the first smartphone to come out of the BlackBerry-Foxconn partnership will cost just $200, in a bid to gain market share.

The phone, nicknamed Jakarta, would be an all touch-screen smartphone, geared for emerging markets. The new smartphone is schedule to launch in Indonesia, this year.

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In a bid to compete favourably with rivals Google, Microsoft and others, Yahoo!  announced new products and other services at CES. The following are the other new products Yahoo unveiled:

Yahoo News Digest

At her Keynote address at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show, while showcasing new technologies to take on Google and others, CEO Marissa Mayer said that half of the total 800 million monthly users of Yahoo! access it on their mobile  devices.

We have seen Fingerprint technology on smartphone, well on the newest iPhone models, but one company is about to change how biometric  capturing works.
Eyelocks, known for building security scanners for security check point, has develop a computer mouse sixe eye scanner, called Myris, that can scan your eyes and verify your identity. Now you don't need a fingerprint scanner or a password saver, but your iris. I hear someone say 'My iris?'' Watch the video to learn more.

After last year's success, Pebble is out with the stainless steel version of the smartwatch. The design is great, but it will cost you $250. See more pictures below.

The Consumer Electronics Show finally kicked-off in Las Vegas today, and begin the 4 day event, Samsung announced two new lines of tablets: the Galaxy NotePro and the GalaxyTabPro. The NotePro is a standalone line(12.2-inch), while the TabPro comes in three models: 12.2-inch, 10.1-inch and 8.4-inch. All four tablets comes with the latest Google operating system, Android 4.4 and available in Wi-Fi only, Wi-Fi and 3G or Wi-Fi and LTE connectivity

Android mobile operating system is growing and expanding everyday. First on mobile phones, tablets and even PCs. But one device is not connected to the growing mobile platform---the car. But Google and other tech giants wants to bridge that gap soon.

Guys, mind-blowing products are being unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show(CES) in Las Vegas. Among such products is the newest Samsung technology, the Samsung Smart Home. The device would connect all the devices in the home, giving the owner peace of mind.

You are a Facebook user and you passed a secret information to a company on Facebook. Then you ended the message by telling the company to keep the matter between them, you and the post. To you, nobody knows the message except you and the company, irrespective of sending the message on Facebook right? If you are such person, I have bad news for you. Apart from you and the company, Facebook also knows about it. To make the matter worse, it even scan and send the message to a third-party--advertisers.

Latest revelation by Edward Snowden, leaked to the Washingtonpost, suggests that the NSA is planing to build a quantum computer which the US agency could use to break encryption codes used to protect other nations consumer bank accounts, medical, spying programs and business records kept secured online.

After  a website called published usernames and phone numbers of Snapchat 4.6 milllion users, the photo-messaging service has announced that it would update its app to allow users opt out of the ''find friend'' feature, which made it possible for hackers to steal users information. Snapchat said the next update would make it harder for hackers to steal its users details.

Some say their new year resolution is to stop buying every  phone that comes out.  Good for them. But that doesn't stop the Google Nexus 7 and Best Buy from tempting you. The Nexus 7 is on sale at Best Buy for $200 and, you get free  $25 Google Play credits every Nexus 7 purchase. The free Google Play credit can be used to get apps and contents on the Nexus 7.

May the one who sits in the heavens grant us our heart desires this year, have a blessed new year!!!!

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