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39-year old Colin Fielder from Victoria, Australia was clinically dead for 40 minutes—that is until a new resuscitation technique from The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne brought him back to life. The new technique is one of two being performed by the hospital. They have already resuscitated three patients who were clinically dead—including Melbourne—with deaths spanning [...]

Alex Technology Tech Breakthrough: Man Dead For 40 Minutes Brought Back To Life (New Resuscitation Technique)

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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 [...]

Alex Technology Glo Nigeria Launches New Postpaid Product, Infinitiser, Offers FREE Calls 24/7

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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 [...]

Bussie Dell Offers 4G LTE Wireless Connectivity to Windows 8 Tablet

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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 [...]

Bussie Wavii Confirms its Acquisiton by Google

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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 [...]

Bussie Xbox 720 to Come in November

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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 [...]

Bussie LG Embarks on Producing Smartphone + Flexible OLED Screen

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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 [...]

Bussie India Creates Smartphone for the Blind

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Do YOU own a smartphone? Nokia is LOOKING for you. Send an e-Mail to NRC_Africa@nokiamail.com

Alex Technology Nokia Research Centre Lagos is Looking For You!

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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 [...]

Bussie Amazon Set to Introduce Set-Top Box

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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 [...]

Bussie Know What Gives Rise to Duplicates in Your Outlook Mailbox

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LG Optimus G and Galaxy Note II carries a 5.5 inches display The South Korean mobile maker, LG is celebrating the launch of its first 1080p droid in the smartphone market. The device is dubbed as LG Optimus G Pro and it is the company’s first flagship model to cross the 5 inches mark. Not [...]

Bussie Samsung Galaxy Note II and LG Optimus G

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The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX50V is the company’s follow-up to the HX30V pocket superzoom. The new HX50V provides enhanced specifications across the board, featuring a 30x zoom lens, a 20.4-megapixel Exmor R CMOS image sensor, a dedicated EV compensation dial for fast exposure adjustments, and a multi-interface hot shoe. It squeezes all of this into a [...]

Bussie SONY Introduces a Superzoom Camera

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Nokia revealed the latest device in its Asha family, the Asha 210. The phone has a QWERTY keyboard and is available in both Single SIM and Dual-SIM variants with the dual-SIM allowing SIM swapping on-the-go. The phone additionally supports Wi-Fi. Asha 210 is a complete overhaul from the previous Asha phones. It features rounded corners [...]

Bussie Nokia Launches Asha 210 Qwerty Keypad + Dedicated Whatsapp Button

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Celebrating Nelson Mandela, a film installation is taking over the electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square. The short presentation was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute, the arts organization co-founded by Oscar-winning star Robert De Niro. Inspiring quotes will be played across many of Times Square’s screens this month to celebrate the anti-apartheid innovator’s [...]

Bussie Mandela’s Inspirational Quotes to Take Over New York’s Electronic Bill Boards

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Yahoo will close down its e-mail service in China this summer, as part of a deal with partner Alibaba Group. The service is scheduled to close Aug. 19, a Yahoo spokeswoman confirmed; users are being ushered toward Alibaba’s email alternative, Aliyun. “As part of an agreement we announced regarding Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba on May [...]

Bussie Yahoo to Close Down its Email Services in China

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Last week on April 15, a press release hit the wire declaring that PSY’s new single Gentleman, his follow-up to the record-breaking Gangnam Style sensation, had amassed “a staggering 22-plus million views in less than a day” meaning that it had “set a new YouTube record for most views in a day.” Google today confirmed that PSY’s second creation has [...]

Alex Technology PSY’s Gentleman sets new YouTube record with 38m views in 24 hours, highest in a single day – Google

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Alex Technology Over 200 million views on Pys’s New Gentleman video in just 9 days

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It appears Nokia has a new smartphone in the works. On Monday, the company posted a brief writeup to its blog, saying that it has something in store for Wednesday at 7 a.m. GMT. Nokia didn’t say precisely what will be revealed, but it assured “something new, followed by a Q&A session with Neil Broadley [...]

Bussie Nokia Hints at New QWERTY Smartphone

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Facebook has presented an update to its Messenger application for Android that will enable users of the social network to begin free voice and video calls with friends over a Wi-Fi or data connection. The free calling service introduced for United States and Canadian iphone users back in January, while Android users received the feature [...]

Bussie Facebook Introduces Free Voice Calling to Android Users

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Google is marking Earth Day 2013 on Monday with what could be its busiest yet more subtle animated doodles. Its degree of involvement has led Google to provide a checklist to ensure you do not miss anything. Highlighting the Earth’s complexity on the 43rd Earth Day, the doodle provides a snapshot of the four seasons [...]

Bussie Google Celebrates Earth Day with an Animated Google Doodle

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According on a recent report by Gearburn’s Steven Norris, Sony has launched the AKA-DM1 “dog-mounted camera harness” that, for just $54, gives owners the ability to take 1080p video (and 16-megapixel pictures) of every little thing their dog experiences throughout a typical dog day, assuming they do indeed attach one of Sony’s HDR-AS15 Action Cam [...]

Bussie Sony Introduces AKA-DM1 Action Camera Harness for Dogs

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The intensive manhunt for the bombers behind the deadly Boston Marathon attacks didn’t take place just on the streets with professional police officers and SWAT teams. In an age of digital interactivity, it also unraveled around the country from laptops and desk chairs filled with regular folks. Fueled by Twitter, on online forums like Reddit [...]

Bussie Tech Devices Help Hunt Boston Bombers

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  From today, the over 100 million mobile phone users in the country can now change from one network to another and still retain their numbers. This is courtesy of the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) regime which takes off today. The regime would be flagged off with a massive publicity event by the Nigeria Communications [...]

Alex Technology NCC confirms MNP launch today – Nigeria

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Yesterday we at Technology-africa.com reported that Nigeria’s top entertainment site has been hacked. Here’s the latest news update on the situation. Please read and pass the message along.   Greetings, Yesterday, our primary domain www.thenetng.com was compromised by internet hackers, who criminally gained access to our servers and illegally took possession of our identity. We are convinced [...]

Alex Technology TheNet.com Update Today: We’ve Moved to Thenet.net

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Microsoft now offers improved security for its e-mail, storage and other services for its customers. Users who turn on the new feature will be asked not merely for a username and password, but would also be asked a second piece of information, such as a temporary code sent as a text to a phone on [...]

Bussie Microsoft Introduces Security Enhancement to its Users

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The entertainment website was hacked this morning by unknown persons who are now demanding a ransom. From kidnapping people now to kidnapping sites? Oh dear. When you click on the site now, it redirects you to different dating sites, or sites that just don’t make any sense. See TheNetng’s latest tweets about the hacking.  

Alex Technology Nigeria’s Entertainment Site, Thenetng.com Hacked

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“Social networking” has been around for a long time. It simply means the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision in such a way that they are able to communicate, interact and expand in number, in today’s world, “it’s the use of a dedicated website to communicate informally with other members of [...]

Alex Technology Top 9 African Social Networking Sites of the Moment

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Social networking site Facebook has seen its South African user-base drop by nearly one million in the past six months, according to a report on Monday. Statistics from social media monitoring company SocialBakers showed that 967 220 users have not logged on to the site in the past six months, reported The Star. This was [...]

Alex Technology Facebook Loses A Million South African Users

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Five months after parting company with Trybes Records, it looks like rapper Eva Alordiah is set to part ways her  new management company 3UD. Ugo of 3UD is  demanding that rapper Eva Alordiah should remove “3UD” from her Twitter profile as she is no longer  signed to the management. Ugo insists that rapper Eva and him parted company since way [...]

Alex Technology Tweet War Between Eva Alordiah and Ugo of 3UD Management

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Entertainment mogul and rapper Jay-Z has started the process of divesting his small share of ownership with the Brooklyn Nets to extend his Roc Nation Sports representation business into basketball, sources told Yahoo! Sports. Jay-Z will have to divest his share of the Nets to become certified as an NBA agent. (USA Today Sports)Jay-Z – [...]

Alex Technology Jay-Z looking to divest ownership share of Nets and become NBA agent