Gatb Tech Solution Blog : 2014

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Man Proposes To Girlfriend Using 99 iPhones, She Says No

Romance takes many shapes and forms, and in the case of a young man in China, his idea of romance is to woo the girl of his dreams by buying 99 iPhone handsets. Now before you think that this is a man with a lot of money who can easily splash that much cash, think again. Apparently he spent two years’ worth of salary just to buy all the iPhones.

MTN Launches N10 Recharge Cards in Nigeria

Nigeria- MTN Subscribers will as from Friday have the opportunity to recharge their phones for as low as N10, according to a statement from The Chief Marketing Officer of MTN, Bayo Adekanmbi, on Thursday.

The initiative, to be launched in Kano, was to ensure that no Nigerian was shut out of the values that the network offers, according to Punch.

At last, Senate passes Cyber Crime bill into law

When Nigeria’s telecoms revolution took off after the licensing of GSM operators in 2001, it heralded positive developments for Nigerians as a people, and the economy in general. Communications among Nigerians and between Nigeria and the rest of the world, which was very difficult, became simplified almost overnight.

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One of the founders of popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested under an Interpol warrant as he was crossing into Thailand from Laos, police said Tuesday.

Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAMO, was detained Monday by Thai immigration police at a checkpoint in Thailand's Nong Khai province, about 310 miles northeast of Bangkok.

Wearing the device called Google Glass may obstruct a person's vision more than wearing regular glasses, researchers say.

The device partly blocks a person's peripheral vision, which is weaker in humans at distinguishing colors and shapes than a person's central vision, but it is better in detecting motion. So during activities such as driving or even walking in the street, unobstructed peripheral vision is essential for spotting things out of the corner of one's eyes.

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg aren't the onlySilicon Valley heavyweights fighting Ebola: IBM is using its tech know-how to help curb the spread of the disease in West Africa.

The company is teaming up with Sierra Leone's Open Government Initiative, Cambridge University's Africa's Voices project, telco firm Airtel, and Kenya's Echo Mobile for various efforts aimed at fighting the deadly disease.

Mark Zuckerberg donated $25 million to fight Ebola, and now Facebook’s using its unique reach to combat the disease. Today it will show a “Donate” button for three West African medical charities at the top of the News Feed in 30 countries including the US. You can donate here.

Lie detector machine: Shekau Vs Jona !

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Monday, 3 November 2014

Facebook Killers: The Six Types Revealed

Reactors - who murder a person who posted something they object to online - are the most common killers linked to the network.

Researchers have identified six ways in which Facebook tends to be used in murder cases.

They described the most frequent type as "reactor", where the perpetrator of a killing reacts to information posted on Facebook by attacking the victim offline. This accounted for 27% of all murder cases involving Facebook.

Andy Rubin, the engineer who developed Google's Android OS and was lately in charge of its robotics efforts, is leaving the company, Google confirmed Thursday.

Rubin cofounded a company called Android, which Google acquired in 2005 for its mobile OS. Android has gone on to become the world's most widely used mobile operating system.

BlackBerry Limited has launched the BlackBerry Passport, a new device built for productivity, in Nigeria.

Featuring a large square touch screen, new QWERTY touch-enabled keyboard and BlackBerry’s latest 10.3 operating system, the BlackBerry Passport gives users a wider vision to do mobile business without compromising portability.

Throughout the flood of hacks and data breaches at retailers, restaurants, health care providers and online companies this year — Home Depot, Target, Subway, Adobe and eBay were just a handful — the one safe haven was the banks. Unlike other companies, banks had a long history of keeping bad guys away from our money and personal data.

Unfortunately, that's no longer something we can take for granted, as JPMorgan Chase customers discovered recently when the financial giant admitted that hackers had stolen information, including checking and savings account details, from 80 million customers. Even worse, the hack went on for two months before the company noticed anything was amiss. That's not very comforting.

There's no way you can prevent a data breach from occurring at a company that has your business. You can, however, make sure your accounts are secure from other forms of attack.

Here are my Top 5 methods to maintain safe and secure online accounts.

1. Lock down your password

Maintaining good password security is one of the easiest ways to protect your accounts.

A strong password — eight or more characters with upper-case characters, lower-case characters, numbers and symbols in a random order — is very hard for hackers to break. Click here to learn how to create a password like this that's still easy to remember.

American doctors have developed two new wireless heart monitoring technologies that remotely measure the heart rate of cardiology patients, and may dramatically reduce their chances of sudden death from heart failure.

“This device is its own cellular platform,” says Dr. Rhea Pimental, a physician and electro-physiologist, at the University of Kansas hospital, which developed one of the two latest devices.

EFCC Arraigns Undergraduate for $110,000 Internet Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, October 30, 2014 arraigned an undergraduate of the University of Benin, Kenneth Rukewe Ebule before Justice E. F Ikponmwen of an Edo State High Court, sitting in Benin- City on a 6- count charge bordering on forgery, obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents.

The accused person allegedly duped Sabine Albert, a German, of the sum of $12, 088, 75 (Twelve Thousand Eighty Eight Dollars and Seventy Five Cents) through fraudulent claims.

Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out: 'I'm proud to be gay'

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out Thursday, acknowledging publicly for the first time that he is gay.

"Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote in a column in Bloomberg Businessweek.

In his column, the Apple (AAPL, Tech30) chief said that he had tried to maintain "a basic level of privacy." But he said he decided that desire for privacy was stopping him from working for the benefit of others.

China may be blocking access to Facebook, but that doesn't mean the social media network can't one day enter the country, as long as it follows the rules, a top government official said on Thursday.
Lu Wei, the director of China's State Internet Information Office, made the comment at a press conference after media outlets had previously reported him saying that Facebook would never be allowed in the country.

"The media claimed that I said 'it would absolutely impossible.' Today, I can tell you that this news is fake," he said, according to a government transcript of his comments.

A computer crime as well as cyber survey conducted recently indicated that Nigeria is the most internet fraudulent country in Africa. Besides, the same report further stated that the giant of Africa is ranked third among others identified with cyber fraud and computer crime in the world.

Cybercrime costs the global economy an estimated $400 billion a year, and as it grows in scale and sophistication, law enforcement is having to do the same.

The U.S. secret service helped prevent over $1 billion in fraud losses from cybercrime last year, but it is up against skilled and organized international crime networks.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two undergraduate Internet scammers and six other fraudsters at the upscale 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos. One of the undergraduate, Hope Olusegun, a 25 year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State, claims to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia. He was arrested by operatives of EFCC over allegations of fraud and internet scam.

Facebook forced to reinstate image of breastfeeding mum after photograph goes viral

Twitter is lending the weight of its daily communications to IBM, which will in turn provide data to its enterprise customers.

Twitter provides a "tsunami" of data and comment each day, according to Alistair Rennie, general manager for business analytics at IBM, who said that if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for everybody.

Though Etisalat is considered the youngest operator in Nigeria’s competitive telecommunication market, which houses MTN, Africa’s largest mobile operator, the UAE-based operator has been nurturing a steady growth in subscriber base during its six-year reign, climbing to 20 million users last month. This is an 18 percent growt from 2013 year ending figures.

BlackBerry Dumps Licensing Deal With T-Mobile

If you’re one of the last remaining BlackBerry diehards, you can cross T-Mobile off the list of retailers selling the struggling smartphone: following a tiff with T-Mobile over an ad featuring Apple's AAPL -0.07% iPhone, BlackBerry has said that it will not renew the contract that allows T-Mobile to carry BlackBerry devices in its stores.

Hacker Crashes Google Play Store Twice While Testing Bug

Over the weekend, the Google Play store fell prey to a well-intentioned hack that inadvertently blocked new apps and updates—twice.

Many developers were still unable to use the store by Monday, while others reported the problem resolved, only to find access denied again.
Turkish hacker Ibrahim Balic claimed responsibility in a CNNMoney report, saying that Google Play crashed when he tested a vulnerability in the system. The app—intended to exploit the flaw—worked a little too well: Balic didn't expect it to disable the entire system.

WhatsApp denies Facebook acquisition compromises user privacy

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum has denied the company's acquisition by Facebook has compromised its dedication to private communication
WhatsApp deal with Facebook gives co-founders happy end to journey of hardship and poverty

Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp, has voiced his desire to "set the record straight" surrounding "a lot of inaccurate and careless information" circulating around his company's acquisition by Facebook.

Mastercard and Syniverse protect against card fraud with phone geolocation

Transactions will only be approved when a card holder and their phone are in the same place

Mastercard and roaming infrastructure company Syniverse have come up with a way to protect credit card transactions abroad with help from a phone's location.

MWC 2014 You could forgive BlackBerry for being grumpy after Facebook acquired WhatsApp for £16bn. After all, WhatsApp is a very obvious knock-off of BlackBerry's BBM. But for years BlackBerry kept BBM locked inside BlackBerry phones - and only last year opened it up as a real cross platform OTT messaging app.

Did BlackBerry kick itself to sleep at night?

14-Year-Old Girl Has Second-Degree Burns after iPhone 5 Catches Fire

A 14-year-old girl suffered second-degree burns last week after the iPhone in her back pocket caught on fire.

The Kennebunk, Maine middle school student had received the device as a gift two months before, Apple Insider reported via the Portland Press Herald. She was in her first class of the day when the green iPhone 5 in her pocket began to smoke.

People who have been monitoring these things would have realized by now that Google is buying like crazy – the company is sealing deals with several startups at once in a preemptory bid to be the biggest winner in whatever happens in the future of technology.

The credit and debit card information of thousands of guests who stayed at certain Marriott hotels in 2013 has been stolen, according to security blogger Brian Krebs.

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Portrait Illustration

As Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary, the world's biggest social network is finding its path as a maturing company, adapting to an aging user base.
The company created in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 has established itself as a phenomenon, securing its place in the world of the technology giants.
"Facebook has made the world much smaller, much more interactive," said Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry.
"Facebook started the social revolution but it may not be able to control it."

Microsoft mobile app helps citizens report crimes more quickly to police in Delhi, India

In Delhi, India – one of the world’s biggest cities with more than 22 million people, where violent crime is on the rise – residents can submit threat or crime information from their phones using Microsoft’s pilot Know Your Police Station mobile app.

Samsung could become the latest company to jump aboard the lifelogging bandwagon with its new "Life Times" app. Judging by leaked screenshots shared with SamMobile, Samsung wants to automatically log phone and app usage on Galaxy smartphones, cataloguing photos, emails, location, music, messages and social network updates, displaying all of that data in a daily digest. Samsung's Story Album app already offers similar features for photos, based on common details such as location and time, but Life Times appears to function more as a diary app, like Day Journal for Android or Day One on iOS.

A Guy With A $50,000 Twitter Handle Says An Aggressive, Blackmailing Hacker Forced Him To Give It Up

Naoki Hiroshima was once offered $50,000 for a single-letter Twitter handle he acquired in 2007, @N. He says no longer owns the handle thanks to a savvy, aggressive hacker and security flaws with GoDaddy and PayPal. He detailed what happened on Medium.

A Dutch court of appeal has overturned a court-ordered block of the infamous Pirate Bay torrent site by internet service providers (ISPs), labelling the practice as “ineffective”.
The block prevented internet users in the Netherlands from accessing the Pirate Bay site directly via a browser.
Two Dutch internet providers, Ziggo and XS4All, took the case to the court of appeals in The Hague. The court reversed the blocking order allowing internet users access to the Pirate Bay without having to resort to the use of proxy servers and other methods circumventing the blockade.

Hackers Promo >> Google To Give $2.7M For Hackers At Pwnium 4 Hacking Contest Who Break Through Chrome OS -

Search giant Google has announced that they will give a hefty $2.7 million prize to hackers who are able to break through the Chrome OS. This prize money has been announced for participants at Pwnium 4 hacking contest who are able to hack the Google browser. This time round, participants at Pwnium 4 will be able to work on Intel- or ARM-powered laptops. Hackers would be paid prizes of $110,000 and $150,000 at the competition if they are able to break through the Chrome OS. The highest award is for those who are able to consistently compromise a Hewlett-Packard or Acer Chromebook

Google acquires artificial intelligence company DeepMind

Google has acquired DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company in London, reportedly for US$400 million.
A Google representative confirmed the deal Sunday via email, but said the company’s isn’t providing any additional information at this time.
News website Re/code said in a report on Sunday that Google was paying $400 million for the company, founded by games prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.

A Japanese lingerie brand has launched a bra that will only unhook by the woman's "true love".

The bra, designed by manufacturer Ravijour, monitors woman's heart-rate, hormones and nervous system through a mobile phone app and makes sure that the guy unhooking it is "Mr. Right", the Daily Star reported.

Google and Samsung have signed a “global patent cross-license agreement” that covers the companies’ existing patents and future ones over the next 10 years. In a brief statement released Sunday, Google and Samsung said the agreement covers “a broad range of technologies and business areas” without going into specifics. By working together on agreements like this, companies can reduce the potential for litigation and focus instead on innovation, Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents, said in the statement.

In 2006, Mitchell Frost, then a 19-year-old college student at the University of Akron, used the school’s computer network to control the botnets he had created. Authorities say between August 2006 and March 2007, Frost launched a series of denial of service (DDOS) attacks against several conservative websites, including Billoreilly.com, Anncoulter.com and Rudy Giuliani’s campaign site, Joinrudy2008.com. He is accused of taking down the O’Reilly site five times, as well as disrupting the University of Akron’s network during a DDOS attack Frost allegedly launched on a gaming server hosted by the university.

Cyber attacks: Nigeria could be a key target this year

Nigeria’s government as well as the country’s financial and ICT sectors will be under increasing threat of cyber attacks this year, claims a technology expert.

In a report by The Daily Trust Tim Akano, Managing Director and CEO of New Horizons Nigeria is quoted as saying that people and institutions could fall victim to attacks from a number of threats including malware, ransomware, spear phising and social network attacks, amongst others

CNN's Twitter and Facebook accounts hacked

A number of CNN’s social media accounts and blogs were hacked Thursday by a group styling itself as the Syrian Electronic Army.
The cable news network said its main Facebook account, Twitter feeds and some blogs were targeted and content posted on some of them. The posts, including unauthorized tweets, were deleted in minutes and the accounts have since been secured, it said.

South Korea's Samsung has posted an 18% drop in operating profit in the fourth quarter, due to a one-off bonus and slowing sales of the electronic giant's high-end smartphones.
Operating profit stood at 8.3 trillion won ($7.8 billion), down 18% from the July-September period, marking the company's first quarterly profit decline in two years.
The fourth quarter figure was also down 6% from a year ago.

Held in Las Vegas in early January, the 2014 International CES exposed spectators and competitors to Ford’s latest hybrid car. This machine is setting the stage for revolutionizing the green-energy industry in cars—with special thanks to the help of one Tech professor and his lab.

Unlike current hybrid-electric models, the new car, the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, has built-in solar panels that can take energy from the sun’s rays directly to convert to energy for the car’s later use.

Study: Texting while walking affects your balance

You've seen this person. Maybe you've even been this person.
We're talking about someone shuffling along a sidewalk or through a shopping mall, so entranced by the phone in their hands that they bump into people or almost get run over.
Yes, this behavior can be annoying. Now we have scientific evidence it can be dangerous. A new study has found that people who type or read on their phones while walking are less likely to look at their surroundings, keep their balance or walk in a straight line.

Perhaps you chuckled at the irony of making your password "password." Or you thought it was the right place to express affection for your favorite primate by choosing "monkey."
More likely, you were lazy and wanted something easy to remember, like "123456."
If you're using any of these passwords, change them.

Samsung's strategy is failing

2013 was supposed to be the year in which Samsung blew away the smartphone competition. It wasn't. Now, 2014 looks to be a soul-searching year for the Korean tech giant.

Samsung's flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, has been a disappointment in every regard. Samsung hyped up the phone to be a world-beater, but the Galaxy S4 turned out to be just a modest improvement over the previous year's Galaxy S3. That's something Samsung's own execs regret, and they are now trying to set more modest expectations for this year's Galaxy S5 launch.

President Goodluck Jonathan has sent the Cybercrime Bill 2013 to the Senate to be enacted into law.

The bill titled, “Cybercrime Bill, 2013” was sent to Senate President David Mark.

“I hereby introduce for formal consideration and enactment into law by the Distinguished Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Cybercrime Bill, 2013,” Jonathan said.

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