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Thursday 30 June 2016

Xiaomi Has Just Launched A Foldable Electric Bicycle

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Xiaomi often refers to Apple's king of china has venture into many things. Apart from making smartphones, they also make fitness trackers, power banks, laptops, smart Tv, Chips. Yet the company show no sign of resting. Yesterday the company unveil a Xiaomi QiCycle- A smart bicycle.

xiaomi Qicycle bike


The QiCycle is an electric bicycle which you can fold, it has an app that give you in-depth statistics on every ride you take which makes it more smarter. Below are the major features of the Xiaomi Qicycle.

  1. Torque Measurement Method (TMM) sensor intelligently measures the torque you apply and adjusts power based on your pedaling.
  2. A Companion smartphone app that displays in-depth info: bike status, GPS navigation, ride stats.
  3. 20 x 2900mAh lithium-ion battery cells (same battery used by Tesla) with a battery management solution that can go 45 km on a single charge.
  4. 3-speed gear hubs
  5. Foldable and compactly lean at 14.5 kg
  6. Real-time stats: speed, distance, power, dynamic power, calories consumed
  7. $452
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Saturday 25 June 2016

WhatsApp Users Are Making 100 Million Calls Everyday

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WhatsApp users are making 100 million calls everyday, the company has announced. Most users are now getting familiar and feel safe using the whatsApp calling feature which was added months ago, Maybe due to the End-to end encryption feature which now make whatsapp users feel safe and secured.

Whatsapp 100 million calls a day

Just for those who are new to this, if any, the whatsapp calling feature allows you to make calls to another whatsapp users without paying a dime to your network provider instead it uses your data or wi-fi to make the call. And of course you  must have a very good Internet network to do that.


Most folks are now ditching their phone dedicated voice calling feature by using apps like Whatsapp and Skype for numerous reasons. but some of the reasons revolved around end-to-end encryption, cheaper rate, superb call quality, easy group calling, etc.

In a blog post this week, Whatsapp announced that there are 100 million voice calls which take place on whatsapp everyday, which amount to 1,100 calls every second, that's huge right? 

Side note, most Africa countries are not really using the whatsapp calling features due to the poor internet network. In Nigeria for example, most telecommunication companies do have a snail like internet speed which are only good for opening webpages not to talk of using an app for calling over the network. So only a tiny fraction of the 100 million whatsapp call made everyday belong to Africa.

Are you using the Whatsapp calling feature? Tell us your experience.
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Saturday 18 June 2016

Microsoft Wants To Get Into Weed Business

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Hold your breathe, It is legal!

Microsoft has announced that they want to move into legal weed business, they will be partnering with KIND financial- A Los Angeles software based marijuana start Up company that allow folks who sell weed legally to run their business making sure all rules that governs the business is thoroughly followed religiously.

microsoft Azure weed business

Microsoft job in the weed business is to provide the tool AZURE- A software that will be use to track all this business from "seed to sale tracking" to ensure the companies are following the rules.



Having said that, do note that Marijuana is legal in some state in the US for medical and recreational purposes. Microsoft will be the first major tech company that has tapped into this lucrative business. Here is what KIND has to say:
“The goal of this relationship is to leverage each company’s resources to provide State, County, and Municipalities with purpose built solutions for track and trace (‘seed to sale’ in the cannabis industry) Technology.” Kind said in the statement.
marijuana business by microsoft

Though many tech companies (e.g Yahoo) has tried to be in the business, many have shied away from the Marijuana business because of crisis here and there. So this seems to be a big deal for Microsoft knowing fully well the road of the marijuana business is so narrow.
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Monday 13 June 2016

Microsoft Wants To Acquire LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion

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Microsoft will announce today on its plan to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. Microsoft acquisition of LinkedIn- A work-focused social networking site will value the LinkedIn shares at $196 each.

microsoft to but linkedIn for $26.2 billion

Though Microsoft says LinkedIn will retain it own brand and independence, and also the current CEO Jeff Weiner will be retained but will report directly to his new boss Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
"The LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centered on connecting the world’s professionals," Nadella said. "Together we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics as we seek to empower every person and organization on the planet."

More than 433 million people use LinkedIn worldwide to network, find jobs, and reconnect with old colleagues. Many of those LinkedIn users also pay for premium services to use the site. But what Microsoft wants to do with this acquisition is yet unknown, and it easy to imagine that its being use as a key to boost it social networking presence.

The software giant will be holding a conference meeting call today at 11:45AM ET to discuss its LinkedIn acquisition and if there is additional details we will update you accordingly.
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Sunday 12 June 2016

Facebook Threatens To Delete Your Synced Photos If You Refuse To Download Its New Photo App

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Facebook seems to discover different means to get people to download it own apps, Last week Facebook forced its users to download Facebook Messenger if they most chat. Now the company is convincing it users to download "Moments- Facebook new photo sharing apps.

facebook moments

The noticed has to do with photo sharing syncing features that was recently removed from Facebook main mobile app. In 2012, the core Facebook app was automatically able to upload photo from phone's local camera roll to a private album on Facebook. Though they were kept there for storage which will make it easier to share publicly on Facebook.

Now this synchronizing tools has been moved from core Facebook app into a photo sharing app called "Moments". 

Facebook has threaten to delete thousands of photo if users refuse to download the moments app and also give an option for all Facebook user to download a zip format of all their photos if they don't want to move over to Moments app before July 7th this year.

I think this move is rather not the kindest of tactics to delete photos when Facebook definitely has the capability and the resources to store them.
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Saturday 11 June 2016

Man Stole 19 Iphones From Apple Store By Dressing Like An Employee

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The same incident happened some weeks back when a woman disguise as an Apple worker and stole eight phone from the store on Feb 16. Last week, this same technique was used but this time it was neatly done by two men.

Apple store stolen 19 iphones

Last week, the police in New Yoke reported that two thieves managed to steal 19 Iphones from Apple Store simply by dressing like employees. According to DNAinfo, the thief dressed exactly like Apple's own workers walked into the electronic repair room of SOHO store, grabbed 19 iphones worth $16,130 and gave it to an accomplice who hide them under his shirt. They both walked out of the store.


Mainly looking at the scenario, The thieves obviously has an insider who gave them such info as to where the spared iphones are located or they probably have been studying the in and out of the store for quite some time because it takes someone to know the layer of a store before you can confidently walked to specific place where the spare iphones are kept right ? 

A source from the store told the post that "nobody will question" an unfamiliar face as long as they are wearing a familiar shirt.

So what your opinion on this. Do you think it's an inside job?
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Wednesday 8 June 2016

This Phone Case Will Let You Run Android OS On Your Iphone

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A developer named Nick Lee has earned himself a reputation when he put a very weird operating system on Apple gadget which include "window 95 on Apple watch". As if that was not enough Nick Lee has succeeded in bringing Android OS to Iphone. All you need is a 3D printed smartphone case to make it work.

Tendigi

Lee clone an AOSP- An android open source project and make an Android Marshmallow. He then 3D printed an iPhone-sized enclosure found on Thinkgiverse. He combined the board, a boost converter, a battery, and resistor to make a not too heavy case .


android case to run os on iphone

In a Nutshell, A communication is establish with an iPhone via the USB, which transmits the content of the android screen, then translate touch events from the iPhone to android.

Android OS on Iphone

Nick Lee is currently working as CTO in Tendigi- a company that's into mobile design and development studio base in brookly, and Lee uses his IOS Apps to communicate with the case he design to load it custom android Version on his Iphone 6S's display.

Via Tendigi
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Sunday 5 June 2016

Facebook Wants To Start Encrypting its Messenger App Chats

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In April this year, WhatsApp- Facebook owned messaging app introduced an end-to-end encryption which make you secure during conversions without any third-party interfering or viewing your private chat either by Facebook or any government.

According to source Facebook is planning to roll out end-to-end encryption on its messenger app -"Facebook Messenger" later this year but this time it will be an opt-in features, what this means is that you will have to decide to use the feature or not depending on your choice.

facebook messenger app encryption


Facebook Messenger users will be presented with the option to either end-to-end encrypt their messages or get a smarter messaging chat. Though Engineers at both Google and Facebook predict that messenger users will rather prefer to opt-in to a smarter chat option than a private one. But not every one will agree though. Do you agree to that?
"I just object to the opt-in default for what could be millions of users as they discuss politics, their love life, health concerns, and other topics meant to be private," Open Crypto Audit Project co-director and researcher Kenneth White said
Having said that, When an End-to-end is turned on, only people on either side of the of the conversations that can decrypt messages, which means neither authorities or Facebook will be able to decipher them.

So an end-to-end encrypted Facebook messenger or a smarter chat messenger which one will you opt-in for?

Via The Guardian
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Saturday 4 June 2016

Facebook Is Forcing Android Users To Download Messenger App For Conversations

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It has been two years now since Facebook has decided to remove the chat feature from it smartphone app, instead of letting users to download a single app for all of their facebooking tasks, now the company is forcing users to use their stand alone messaging app called "Facebook messenger".

Despite this, user has been able to use the Facebook mobile site page to chat but Facebook has also tips that will be coming to an end soon.

facebook, facebook messenger forced


Lot of Facebook user complained of the app draining battery so fast, therefore making them  to uninstall the app and accessing Facebook mobile site to chat and update status. But Facebook is making it even more harder to for users to chat on mobile site, making  sure the Facebook app will be your only option.

Most android users are already getting notifications saying "Soon you'll only be able to view your messages from Messenger." and some android user has not completely be able to use the chat function to send messages. When they try to open a conversation, they are being directed to the Google PlayStore to download Facebook Messenger.

Currently, IOS user seems to be a bit lucky for now, they were still able to send messages via the Facebook mobile site but its only a matter of time, they too will be given the same treatment.

The only work around right now is for you to download a Third-party app to handle your chat or you browse the desktop version on your phone.
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