“Jimmy” the robot drives across the floor and as soon as it sees an obstacles – it turns and moves around it… … It is in many way an analogy between the work at one of the biggest technology hubs in Africa and how they aim to get round some of the biggest problems on the continent – it’s called Co-Creation and it’s in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria. “This is cutting edge innovation,” says Tunji Eleso as he shows us round the hub. “We are providing a place they can work...
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Hashtags was created by Twitter as a means of organizing content and now are found on many social media channels like Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram and others. Using hashtags on Instagram and elsewhere helps users tag content of a particular subject with the # symbol to organize and categorize messages or photos. Here’s the list of top 100...
(Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date. Unknown hackers infected the computers of some Apple workers when they visited a website for software developers that had been infected with malicious software. The malware had been designed to attack Mac computers, the company said in a statement provided to Reuters. The...
World’s BIGGEST Laptop!Fujitsu-Siemens brings the biggest laptop in the world and presented at this year’s CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. Guys this laptop is huge, huge mean huge, have a look on the images….. A laptop can only be called a laptop if it fits on my lap. It can be named as “BEDTop” as whole of my body can fit on its keyboard,...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Instagram said Tuesday in a blog post that it will revise its policy updates to make its plans clearer. “It is not our intention to sell your photos,” the company wrote. Instagram shocked users with an update to its terms of service that will let the company sell users’ photos to other companies. The new terms of...
Apple announced the iPad Mini Tuesday at the California Theater in San Jose, Calif. The highly-anticipated tablet computer is a smaller, cheaper version of the tech giant’s popular iPad, and a fourth generation iPad. Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook started off the event saying, “”We have some very fond memories here, and we’re...
Facebook’s European boss Joanna Shields is to leave the social network to lead the UK government’s investment group for technology start-ups. The Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) supports firms based near the Silicon Roundabout area of east London. Ms Shields will replace current head Eric Van Der Kleij in January 2013. “Joanna’s...
DAREDEVIL Felix Baumgartner reached a top speed of 1342km/h, or 1.24 times the speed of sound, in a record-breaking freefall from the edge of space. The speed, revealed at a press conference after the unprecedented leap from 39km up, was significantly higher than that given earlier by a spokeswoman, who had put his maximum speed as 1136km/h. No one has...
Research in Motion,RIM, has unveiled ‘Dev Alpha B’, a new prototype for its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 handset, which is due to be released in January 2013. Unveiled at the BlackBerry Jam Americas Conference by RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, the new hand-set does not include working phone software but updates the existing Dev Alpha device that was distributed...
Apple may have come out on top when a jury ruled that dozens of Samsung phones infringed on Apple patents and trade dress, but that doesn’t mean Samsung and other Android OEMs will simply let the new iPhone 5 hit the market without a bit or resistance. There are at least a dozen Android powered devices being prepped to battle the iPhone 5 in the marketplace,...
