Still On Globacom Nigeria
Globacom data services came up today after about a week of outage. However, a quick trip to Ikeja (Lagos Mainland) yesterday gave me a little insight to the extent and spread of these outages. It seems to be more frequent on Lagos Island as subscribers on the mainland seemed unaffected. The sad part of it…
5 Signs That Your Blog Is Dying
As blog owners, there are times when we are too overwhelmed by our blog’s physical appearance, especially if our blog has an impressive design, a good amount of traffic and followers, and good search engine rankings. Yet having these positive traits does not mean your blog is in good condition. Sometimes, these traits can be…
Free Internet Browsing
At least half of the people that click on this post would expect to find some hacking tips on how to browse the internet for free. Sorry, no hacking tips here. However, for those that subscribe to Globacom's cheaper internet bundles, ever tried dialling 124 to know if you are a beneficiary of Glo's free…
Michael Hart, eBook Inventor, Dies At 64
Michael Stern Hart was born in Tacoma, Washington on March 8, 1947. He died on September 6, 2011 in his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64.Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks. He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting…
Technology And The Antichrist
There are many very recent technological achievements that have made the events described in end-times prophecy now possible. For example, the invention of television and satellite transmissions has made it possible for people around the world to witness an event at the same time. Revelation 11:9 describes how two witnesses will proclaim what is happening…
Google+ vs. Facebook
The September 2011 edition of the PCWorld magazine is out and one article that did catch my attention is the comparison of Facebook with its yet to be launched, but extremely threatening rival, Google+ (Google Plus). In Nigeria, Google+ is yet to catch on, with most people not even aware of the new big entrant…
One Year After …
About a year ago, I started this blog as a means of penning down my ideas and to share interesting stories that I find around me or on the Internet. My primary focus was on articles bordering on innovations and evolution of technology and how it affects, especially, Nigerians. Quite a noble idea, if I…
How Are The Mighty Fallen
Mike Lazardis, RIM co- CEO, was convinced of BlackBerry’s superior design and feature focus, that you would hear him unequivocally state time and time again that BlackBerry smartphones would never have MP3 players or cameras in them because it just does not make sense when the company’s primary customers were the government and enterprise. “BlackBerry…
The Google+ Project – Free Invites
Google has unveiled its new social networking tool Google Plus (Google+) to beat its close rival Facebook. With the Google+ project, the search engine giant is planning to grab the search engine market, which is controlled by Facebook with nearly 700 million users. Even Though the Google Plus project is in limited field trial, quite…
Cyberattacks May Constitute Acts of War
THE PENTAGON IS set to establish as official U.S. policy that it will consider cyberattacks to be “acts of war,” and will respond to them with real-world force, the Wall Street Journal reports. The strategy, which should be public by the time you read this, will provide guidance to our country’s armed forces and put…
Microsoft Introduces Windows 8
Offering a radically different, touch-oriented interface, the upcoming operating system is designed for desktops, laptops, and tablets. WINDOWS 8 Is on its way, and it will be a departure from the Windows we know and love today. That was the message Microsoft sent in a presentation given at the annual All things digital Conference held…
Spot and Avoid Facebook Scams
"THERE’S A SUCKER born every minute.” That quotation, widely attributed to P.T. Barnum, originally referred to deceptive carnival sideshow attractions, but it’s just as relevant to online scams—in particular, Facebook scams—today. None of the common Facebook frauds—the “Facebook dislike button,” the “stalker tracker” (which purports to tell you who’s visiting your profile), and “watch this…