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Breaking News: Google Shuts Down Popular Blogsite, Linda Ikeji

Google on Wednesday shut down popular blogsite, Linda Ikeji, http://www.lindaikeji.blogspot.com How It Happened: Nigeria’s currently most successful blogger, Linda Ikeji, has severally been accused of plagiarism which is defined as “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own“. In fact, Linda seems to be mostly guilty of … Continue reading

RIM Begins Training Of Nigerian Application Developers For BlackBerry OS10.0

Research In Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry, has commenced a series of training for Nigerian app developers with the aim of helping them build capacity for BlackBerry’s new platforms. The BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam developer forum will commence today (Tuesday) at the Co-Creation Hub (CcHub) facility in Lagos. The week-long programme will also feature sessions … Continue reading

Gmail To Appear In Google Search Results

(AP) — Google is creating an information bridge between its influential Internet search engine and its widely used Gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses more quickly. The experimental feature unveiled Wednesday will enable Google’s search engine to mine the correspondence stored within a user’s Gmail account for any data tied … Continue reading

Apple To Launch iPad Mini

Apple to launch smaller and cheaper machine that could be on shelves this autumn     Smaller cheaper machine to launch ‘soon’ claim factory sources     Screen between 7 and 8 inches     Built to compete with cheap rivals such as Google’s £159 Nexus 7     Sources in Apple’s supply chain claim tablet is already in … Continue reading

Facebook Launches Camera App For iPhone

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s rocky initial public offering hasn’t stopped life at the world’s biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone. The app can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store and works like most other camera applications for smart phones. To take a photo, you tap … Continue reading

Google Finally Buys Motorola For $13 Billion

Google officially completed its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility on Tuesday. It’s an eureka moment for the company, marking both its biggest acquisition ever and Google’s transition from a search-and-software company to a consumer gadgets maker. Google named Dennis Woodside, who previously served as president of Google’s Americas region and oversaw the integration planning, … Continue reading

Apple’s New Spaceship-Like Campus

The new Apple Space Campus is expected to cover 2.8 million square feet and have its own power plant inside its massive, gleaming circular design. It will be covered in solar panels and house up to 13,000 people on a daily basis — not to mention 6,000 trees. It’s been compared to a spaceship. And … Continue reading

Facebook IPO: A Gold-Mine?

Facebook Inc. (FB)’s $11.8 billion initial public offering (IPO), will cement the status of 27-year-old Mark Zuckerberg as one of the world’s richest men and put his social network among the highest-valued companies in the U.S. Facebook is offering about 337.4 million shares for $28 to $35 each, according to a regulatory filing yesterday. At … Continue reading

Facebook’s Organ Donor Feature

Facebook has launched its latest feature: the ability to share with your network whether you are an organ donor, in the hope it will save more lives on a daily basis. Facebook has launched a new “life-saving” tool, allowing its 900 million users to share their organ donation status on their timelines. The world’s largest … Continue reading

Google Drive Unleashed

Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, … Continue reading

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