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I have to go off Tech tobight because my Blue Team Chelsea won the UEFA Cup, Yes Won…..we wonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Just like that song by Fred (Stand up for the Champions)
>>>
I (Chelsea) was built to be the Best
No 1 and nothing Else
Leave us (Chelsea) to our Destiny, We have waited Patiently [And now we have History]
I (Chelsea) have visions and i Believe [We are on the Move..Make way joor]
And i know i can count on me
Stand up for Chelsea Joooorrrrrrr: The Champions

We fell down 4 years ago but we picked ourselves UP and UP we are now, yes the TOP thats where we are now….Up Chelsea
I say Stand up for Chelsea Seeeeeeyyyyy
From Napoli -> Benfica -> Barcelona -> Bayerm Munich, We never really stood a chance but somehow the luck of football kept with us.

Congratulations to Chelseaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Now We Have History

Based on the latest developments in neuro-technology, Emotiv has developed a revolutionary new personal interface for human computer interaction. The Emotiv EPOC is a high resolution, neuro-signal acquisition and processing wireless neuroheadset.

Tan Le’s astonishing new computer interface reads its user’s brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications.
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Facebook is a big company thanks to its 900 Million users and its proposed 100+ Billion IPO but have you ever asked how much you are worth to Facebook?

Thanks to online privacy company Abine, we now have a simple tool by which we can calculate our monetary value to Facebook in U.S dollars anyway.

To illustrate the potential for Facebook to lose sight of the importance of the individual (and his or her privacy) amidst the pressure to maintain its ridiculously high valuation/metrics, Abine has created a quiz called the “Val-You Calculator,” which, based on your answers to seven questions, determines the dollar value you represent as a user.

Find your Facebook Worth Here

These questions ask you where you live (most of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from North American companies), how many friends you have, whether or not you play Zynga games, for example, all in an effort to demonstrate that your personal data comes with an implicit dollar-value.

Unfortunately, I was only worth $5 (see image above) to Facebook. Clearly, I’m not a good customer. What about you?

Data loss is not an if. It’s a when. Files get corrupted, hard drives fail. And from spilled lattes to floods, theft and fires, your computer is susceptible to physical disasters. Then there’s the threat of viruses, hackers, and cybercriminals.

When disaster hits, backups become priceless.

Its fun using your Computer (Desktop/Laptop) and while it serves you well, you forget that the safety of that device can be affected by anything and its not the device that is painful, Its the data on the Computer that becomes priceless when its gone.

It happened to me 3 years ago, With an encryption algorthm over my Hard Drive, I got into issues with PointSec and my IT Guys were like the System was irrecoverable. I had a 3 months old backup but trust me thats too old for a developer like me because 3 new Applications are missing already with that Computer and other files if not restored. I kept faith for almost 3 months but still had to roll the machine down. I learnt the hard way that “If that file is really important, Give it a second location, If possible, A third”
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At its BlackBerry World event in Orlando today, RIM pulled the wraps off BlackBerry 10, a thoroughly-revamped platform based on QNX that the company is hoping will bring it back into contention. Though it’s been talking about BlackBerry 10 since last year (when it was known as BBX), this is the first time that RIM is getting into details about what we can expect when it debuts on retail devices later in 2012.
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So you have an idea and then you have decided its time to go online and push the limit of your business and idea, below are some quick action steps to your startup, marketing and business growth.

NaijaGist/Enterpreneur

1. Write the Idea/Business Down and know what exactly you want to sell/give/market to the world.
2. Get a Domain name that will host your business, Unless this is social business, sometimes its better to go with a name that clamps on your existing business name if it is.
3. Get a hosting company to host your website (Talk to Primax) or a host of others out there. For a startup, you fees can be very very less
4. The Design: While you can talk to designers for your site, You can actually design your site yourself with a host of CMS available out there. Most used is WordPress, you also have JoomLa, Drupal, Modx and a host of others to choose from
5. Set up your Social Networks: Setup a facebook Page, A Twitter account and make them active.
6. Advertise/Market your business via Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other engines out there, Email marketing too works wonders also bulk sms helps you connect with your clients
7. Make money from your site using google adsense, adbrite, affiliate marketing and other Local Advertising opportunities

Well, after the above, get busy, track your progress, get better and enjoy your new online world. It takes time but if you are really reaching out, Out there will reach out back to you.

Want more information? olutola.obembe@primaxng.com

Called Code Clubs, the sessions will aim to instil the basics of computer programming into children aged 10-11.

The clubs will be built around practical hands-on tasks that will include children making games and eventually controlling robots.

It aims to have 25% of the UK’s primary schools running a Code Club by 2014.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17740143

Microsoft just told the world what it’s going to call the next version of Windows, and — shocker — the official name will be “Windows 8.” It also revealed how many versions of Windows 8 there will be, and what the company will call them. There are three main editions. At the basic level there’s plain, simple Windows 8, which Microsoft says should include everything most consumers will need for a typical PC.

In Summary, we will have:

• Windows 8, for most consumers.
• Windows 8 Pro, for enthusiasts or businesses.
• Windows RT, which is what you get installed on a Windows tablet.
• Media Pack, an add-on for Windows 8 Pro that turns your machine into a Media Center PC.
• Windows 8 Enterprise, what you want if you’re Pfizer.
• Local-language Windows 8, if you live in China or other “select” markets.

Microsoft says PC customers running Windows 7 will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 or Windows 8 Pro, depending on the edition. No pricing or availability dates as of yet.

What do you think of Microsoft’s Division?

Encyclopaedia Britannica finally goes totally digital in 2012 after many years of print editions. After 244 years, “the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica print set will be discontinued,” according to an announcement on Britannica’s web site. The 2010 set (which costs US$ 1 395) will be the final print edition before the Britannica goes completely digital.

I know some  old school people still like the big prints but with the growing world on digital services and digital media, Its time The Encyclopaedia Britannica comes forward digitally where we can read, search and get to history faster than before.

Have you read any of the 32 volumes? Remember this TV Series Kyle XY where the guy read out an encyclopaedia in minutes? lol

Every laptop has a certain battery life and we notice that down the line after some months of usage, battery life reduces and sometimes dies out and some users claim that the laptop brand is not good because of that. I for one have always believed that the way you use your laptop matters because as an electronic device, you need to optimize the usage to get the best out of it. Sleeping on that, i stumbled on Thomas Mikaelson article listing five ways of doing that and an interesting info graphics from batteries.com you should see.
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Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks and application services. Initiated by VMware, with broad industry support, Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. It is an open source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances, including CloudFoundry.com. Cloud Foundry is an Application Execution Environment like Google AppEngine, Salesforce.com, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Engine Yard, Heroku e.t.c with a +
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The Linux Foundation has released its annual report on the top contributors to Linus Torvalds’s open source operating system, and there’s a new name on the list: Microsoft.

For years, Microsoft kept its distance from the open source movement, and at one point, CEO Steve Ballmer referred to Linux as a cancer, seeing the open source OS as a threat to Microsoft’s Windows operating system and other proprietary tools built by the Redmond software giant. But in recent years, the company has come to realize that it needs the open source community on its side. And in some cases, Microsoft is actually contributing to high-profile open source projects, including Hadoop, Samba, and, yes, the grandaddy of the all: Linux.

According to the new report from the Linux Foundation — penned by kernel contributor Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Foundation vice president of marketing and developer programs Amanda McPherson, and Jonathan Corbet, another Linux contributor and the editor of open source webzine LWN.net — Microsoft accounted for 1 percent of the contributions to the Linux kernel between release of version 2.6.36 in October 2010 and the arrival of version 3.2 in January 2012. That puts the Redmond giant in the top 20 corporate contributors to the project.

The top three contributors are Red Hat (10.7 percent), Intel (7.2), and Novell, which is now owned by the Attachmate Group (3.3). But the largest chuck of contributors have no corporate affiliation (16.2 percent).

Full Story on Wired.com

Data Virtualization Solutions have grown in the IT industry today and we look out for ways to use this technology to meet both Business and Corporate needs. Composite Software brings the usage Patterns into 5 simple ways to provide more agile, lower cost data integration approach that overcomes data complexity and disparate silos to provide business with the timely information it needs to meet today’s ever-changing business requirements.

Data Virtualization Usage Patterns

Composite flexibly supports all of the data virtualization usage patterns typical in today’s complex IT environments including:

• Data Federation
• Data Warehouse Extension
• Data Virtualization Layer
• Big Data Integration
• Cloud Data Integration

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March 28, 2012 – The entire span of what market researcher IDC calls smart connected devices saw shipments of more than 916 million units and revenues of greater than $489 billion in 2011, an analyst at the firm says.

Moreover, unit shipments of PCs, media tablets and smartphone revenues and sales will surpass 1.1 billion this year and 1.84 billion by 2015, more than double last year’s total.

From Information-Management

IDC has a long history of reporting on PC and smart phone numbers. For the last year and a half, tablet devices have been added to the company’s breakouts and those numbers are also published individually.
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With Over 800+ Million users on facebook, and other growing numbers across other social networks. One would make fun of an idea where we have social network ID Card like a Facebook ID to enter a Joint, twitter ID to enter a show, or a LinkedIn ID to get a Job. Well Tobias Leingruber, a german artist has brought that future closer to us by making and distributing Facebook ID Cards with your Information on them.

The project is called FB Bureau, and Leingruber is handing out these futuristic identification cards at conferences in Berlin and Amsterdam next month.
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