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A new revolutionary post-paid product tagged Infinitiser launched by Globacom on Tuesday has offered subscribers a rare opportunity to make free 24-hour calls to the 26 million subscribers on the company’s network. Additionally, subscribers will enjoy 1 free gigabyte of data per month. Kamaldeen Shonibare, Globacom’s Head of Corporate Sales, while speaking at the launch of the product in Lagos,...

Dell is now offering 4G LTE on its XPS 10, a feature conspicuously missing on a lot of Windows 8 tablets. “Today, we’re introducing an AT&T 4G LTE mobile broadband version for US customers on Dell.com, providing professionals with the same fast, reliable, high-speed internet connection as on their smartphones for connectivity anytime, anywhere,” Dell said in a statement on Thursday. The...

Wavii, which concentrated on providing personalized news, is now confirming that it has been acquired by Google. Wavii’s Web website now carries just a single message on a single page, headlined: We’re excited to announce that Wavii has teamed up with Google!” Furthermore, the Wavii logo now shows up in the colors of Google’s own logo. CEO of Wavii, Adrian Aoun gave a brief...

Paul Thurrott, Microsoft blogger recently released a post sharing his ideas on Microsoft’s planned introduction of the next generation Xbox. In it, he said Microsoft will at first offer two pricing models for the console: a standalone version for $499 and another that will cost $299 that requires a two-year Xbox Live Gold commitment ($10 per month for 24 months). He pegged the May 21 reveal date...

Yoon Bu-hyun, LG vice president of mobile recently informed the Wall Street Journal that his company would be releasing a smartphone featuring a flexible OLED display later this year. The phone will get to customers during the 4th quarter however he came up short with any other details. Probabilities are that we will not see a smartphone with a freely bendable display as other components like the case,...

A company in India has created a smartphone for the blind. The smartphone, up to 3 years in making, will be equipped to read text and e-mails, and it converts the text to Braille. It will use shape memory alloy technology, which makes use of a metal’s ability to “remember” its original shape. The phone’s screen is not a screen so much as a grid of pins that move up and down...

Amazon now set to be the latest to offer a “set-top” box.   According to a number of anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg, the idea isn’t entirely to offer Amazon’s own streaming and downloadable TV and movie services.   It seems likely that both free and paid rivals such as Hulu and Netflix will be accessible via the service, albeit with less prominence.   It...

Presence of duplicate items in mailbox is not so wondering and is encountered by Outlook users often. Data redundancy, at one point of time, directly impacts performance of the application, which is maddening. Since the mailbox may comprise small number of duplicates or may have a huge count of duplicate items, it becomes just impossible to remove entire data redundancy. The post discusses the common...