Provides the latest RSS feeds for Breaking Technology News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Africa Leader.com http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/cat/d805653303cbbba8/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 10:10:50 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:10:50 -0400 30 An FIR was Monday registered here against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said. The site was booked under penal provisions and under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, on the complaint filed by senior police officer Amitabh Thakur. In his complaint filed at Gomtinagar police station, Thakur alleged ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638470/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:50:02 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638470/scat/d805653303cbbba8 , the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 is now sitting pretty with a £460 SIM-free price, and is available to order in both black and white models. The retailer hasn't announced an more specific release date than July ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661824/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661824/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Dell has dumped its own cloud service offering to instead resell services for Joyant, Scalematrix and Zerolag. Dell's public cloud service was the firm's offering that was meant to tempt customers that buy kit from the firm not to run off to Amazon. Now it seems that Dell doesn't want to run its own cloud datacentre operations but resell services through its Cloud Partner Program. ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661825/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:56 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661825/scat/d805653303cbbba8 the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) is behind a court order that has blocked access to the Movie2k and Download4all websites in the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661826/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:55 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661826/scat/d805653303cbbba8 HIGHLAND, Ill.o The good news for the Highland softball team was that it earned a postseason victory. The bad news is that it has to face ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661519/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:49:24 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661519/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Garmin's Nuvi GPS device is getting better at tying into your phone, if you can live with the additional expense. The Nuvi links to a phone through ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661827/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:40:40 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661827/scat/d805653303cbbba8 A. E-mail security is an ongoing issue, but there are basic precautions you can take to help keep your account safer from intruders, viruses and other malicious scenarios. To start, make sure your computer's operating system, security software and e-mail/Web browser program have all the latest updates and security patches installed. Skipping simple or easy-to-remember passwords in favor of ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661828/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:40:40 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661828/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Government plans to amend the 128-year-old Indian Telegraph Act in a bid to check misuse of VoIP, a tool that has become handy for terror and separatist ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661830/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:33:00 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661830/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Indian IT sector , said Krishnakumar Natarajan, Chairman, Nasscom. "This is a one off case and the industry is known for its highest standards of governance," he told ET Now. Natarajan said iGate board has taken a right decision to sack its President and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661829/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:33:00 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661829/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Executives buying a hot Internet company sound so assured and optimistic. In conference calls to celebrate such deals, they invariably predict accelerated growth for the parent business, a pipeline of new complimentary products and an infusion of entrepreneurial zeal. Check in a few years later, however, and the results are usually mixed. Some Internet acquisitions live up to their blockbuster ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661832/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:29:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661832/scat/d805653303cbbba8 AAPL ) overseas tax strategies submitted by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Monday is not an easy read. The 10-page overview of tax principles and law in the middle -- a history of how a program to block the use of offshore tax havens begun by President Kennedy was riddled with loopholes introduced by Congress -- is almost impenetrable. Yet you need to wrap your mind ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661833/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:29:58 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661833/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Drawbridge CEO and founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan wants to finish what AdMob started. "If there is an unfinished legacy of AdMob that needs to be solved, it's mobile advertising in this next generation ... It's understanding that consumer behavior, to better personalize and make advertising more relevant in mobile." Credit: Drawbridge FORTUNE -- Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661831/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:29:58 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661831/scat/d805653303cbbba8 FORTUNE -- Flickr, the online photo sharing service, seemed to be heading for the big-time when Yahoo acquired it eight years ago. The site already had a lot going for it: legions of devoted users, a team of respected founders, and a head start on the social media phenomenon. But Yahoo screwed up its potential bonanza. Executives starved Flickr of resources and tangled it in bureaucracy while ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661661/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:29:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661661/scat/d805653303cbbba8 , just got a new job. According to the tech giant, Watson will now be employed in customer service centers, used as a tool for both representatives and consumers to get fast, data-driven responses. It's been two years since Watson made its debut on ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661834/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:29:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661834/scat/d805653303cbbba8 One of the most politically charged phrases in IT these days is "skills shortage." That phrase may come up Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee, as expected, takes up a series ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661835/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:32 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214661835/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: YouTube/Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Nokia is out with another promo showing off the camera of its new Lumia 928 smartphone. A spot posted on YouTube reveals a series ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660697/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:18:30 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660697/scat/d805653303cbbba8 , and it looks like O2 got the memo today, having begun accepting preorders for the device. Unfortunately it's not as cheap as we were expecting, ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660459/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:40:50 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660459/scat/d805653303cbbba8 has claimed to have mounted a successful attack against the CNN website. Reckz0r claimed to have extracted information from the US based 'news' company and posted four fake articles on its website. He made the announcement about the attack on Twitter, following that ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660460/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:40:49 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660460/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo has rolled out a number of updates to its Flickr photo service, including a cleaner home page with less clutter and full resolution images. It has built the renovation around a new photostream that offers an endless scrolling gallery so "it's easy to see what your friends are posting and what they're saying about your ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660458/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:40:49 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660458/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank.The companies said late Thursday that SoftBank had waived provisions of its deal with Sprint that will allow Sprint to talk with Dish.SoftBank currently has a $20.1 billion deal with ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660218/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:40:08 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660218/scat/d805653303cbbba8 21 May 2013 IT outsourcing company iGate Corp said it had sacked its chief executive, Phaneesh Murthy, for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate after investigating one of the industry's best-known executives for sexual ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659482/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:32:14 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659482/scat/d805653303cbbba8 SAN FRANCISCO -- Both Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, and David Karp, Tumblr's 26-year-old founder, reassured worried users on Monday that Yahoo’s deal to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion would allow the social networking site to operate as it is. "Marissa walked me through exactly what that would look like, what that could look like, and she showed me an opportunity ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660461/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:31:55 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660461/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Computerworld - Just a month after a top Google executive said Glass wouldn't be officially released for another year, sources say the computerized eyeglasses actually should ship by the end of this year. One source inside Google and another close to Google said the company expects to ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659580/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:27:46 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659580/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Google I/O Conference in San Francisco last week were invited to send a drink recipe via a smartphone application to a three-armed robot Makr Shakr. They could then interact with attendees having similar taste to collaboratively design the perfect drink via social media. MIT's Senseable City Lab wanted to see what happened when a lot of people take control of an industrial manufacturing ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660462/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:23:40 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660462/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Your computer can slow down due to a number of reasons. One of them could be accumulation of unnecessary files in the disk. A simple way to speed up the computer is to periodically clean the disk. There are some files, ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660463/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:23:39 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660463/scat/d805653303cbbba8 sexual harassment against him and said it's a case of extortion. "There is no merit to the sexual harassment claim. The charges are completely false. They have an easy way to collect money. It's the same lawyer and law firm who represented the other woman in 2002 (when Murthy was charged with similar allegations when he was ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660464/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:23:38 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660464/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the U.S. and other countries, according to a new report from a U.S. Senate subcommittee. Apple has set up a "complex web" of offshore entities to avoid paying taxes, with some subsidiaries set up in ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660465/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:11:58 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214660465/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue May 21, 2013 6:52am EDT * Biggest ever fall in organic service revenue * FY earnings down 3.1 percent, just beating market view * CEO refuses to comment on sale of Verizon stake * Will keep hold of latest Verizon payout * Shares flat By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Vodafone will reinvest a $3.2 billion dividend from its healthy U.S. arm to counter weakness in ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659775/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:52:54 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659775/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Consumer Reports has named Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone the top smartphone in the world, dethroning LG's Optimus G. Consumer Reports is an independent, non-profit organisation that tells subscribers what are the best products on the market, and the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is the latest mobile device to pass the company's testing. It apparently passed with flying ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659286/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:31:58 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659286/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The SEA has made a name for itself by taking over news organisations' social media accounts and has trophies from the BBC, the Guardian and the Onion on its shelves. Most ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659287/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:31:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659287/scat/d805653303cbbba8 game series based on Tom Clancy adventure potboilers has been around since 2002, and this will be the sixth Ubisoft release. They are third person shoot and chokers and are supported by a Tom Clancy novel. The trailer popped up late yesterday, and Ubisoft's promotional blurb said, "Tom ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659289/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:31:56 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659289/scat/d805653303cbbba8 for technology companies explaining their tax situations. The week started off with news that a £150m rural mobile contract had been awarded to Arqiva, the firm that in January came under the spotlight for alleged dodgy tax practices. On Tuesday, news broke of another government contract for Arqiva in the form of providing the infrastructure to support the rollout ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659288/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:31:56 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659288/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Xbox 360 . It's been a long few months of rumours and rabble-rousing, and finally comes the chance to separate the fact from fiction for Microsoft's vision of the next generation. Always-online? A camera that must be connected for the machine to even work? Blocking second hand games? Some of the more long-standing rumours paint the Next Xbox as a decidedly Orwellian piece of kit. Aside ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659291/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:23:49 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659291/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Marissa Mayer, chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2013 conference in New York, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2013. The event features leaders from various technology fields and includes a competition for the best new startup company. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Marissa ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659290/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:23:48 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659290/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Instagram has undergone a memetic mutation to become a platform for sharing photographs of food. Now, a Bangalore-based company is hoping to become the platform of choice for people who want to share their photographs and opinions on clothing, accessories and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659293/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:15:11 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659293/scat/d805653303cbbba8 highly bullish guidance -- projecting that profits would come in as much as 28% higher than expected this year on healthy sales growth. First Solar's stock shot up 43% in a day. Recently at $45, the shares remain far below their record high of $273 in 2008. Still, says First Solar CEO Jim Hughes, "the fog is ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659193/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:12:32 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659193/scat/d805653303cbbba8 involved in a US government scheme to provide an affordable phone service to the poor have threatened reporters who found a security hole in their Lifeline phone system with charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659294/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:07:31 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659294/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Western Digital , has come up with the world's most spacious 2.5-inch hard drive. The Travelstar 5K1500 is a three-platter affair stuck in a 9.5mm case. While it might not be good match for thin and light notebooks, its three 500GB platters deliver a total of 1.5TB of storage, which is more than many users have in their desktops. The really interesting bit isn't the capacity, though. ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659296/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:07:30 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659296/scat/d805653303cbbba8 has developed its second generation 19nm process that will be applied to mass produce 2-bit-per-cell 64Gb NAND memory chips starting later this month. The new process helped Toshiba develop the smallest 2-bit 64Gb NAND chips on the market, measuring just 94 square millimetres, making it slightly smaller than the average studio apartment in Tokyo. The chips also incorporate a new high speed ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659295/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:07:29 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659295/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Windows 8 faces a number of hurdles in the enterprise, but the biggest reason it won't replace the current corporate champion, Windows 7, is simple. "Enterprises just don't see Windows 8 having value," said David Johnson, an analyst with Forrester Research. "They don't see the value in the changes in Windows 8 [compared to Windows ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659298/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:04:11 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659298/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Google is getting ready to bring its JavaScript rival Dart language to a formal 1.0 release and has a good idea what will be featured in the 3.0 version of Google Web Toolkit (GWT), due next year. Dart is slated to reach the 1.0 milestone soon, said Emily Fortuna, a software engineer at Google. Billed as a language for structured Web programming, Dart will be packed with features such as method ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659297/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:04:11 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214659297/scat/d805653303cbbba8 It's possible that you find it hard to motivate yourself to exercise or to head to the gym, and you don't like the idea of a personal trainer. It's time for an app, in other words; and there are many out there to help us get in ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658270/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:08:37 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658270/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Ireland said that it was not to blame for the low rate of tax paid by Apple Inc after a US Senate report said the company had kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658271/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:08:36 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658271/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Microsoft is all set to offer a glimpse at a new-generation Xbox as videogame consoles evolve into home entertainment centers and adapt to competition from smartphones and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658273/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:08:35 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658273/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Apple Inc will argue for a comprehensive corporate tax reform that will levy a "reasonable tax" on foreign earnings and is not dependent on a company's revenue when it goes before a Senate panel to explain its offshore tax practices. In prepared testimony released by the company and submitted ahead of Apple chief executive Tim Cook's hearing on Tuesday before the Senate ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658272/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:08:35 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658272/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Marissa Mayer has made her boldest move to date as chief of Yahoo! with the billion-dollar purchase of Tumblr, a popular blogging platform she vowed not to ruin after protests from youthful users. The two companies, one ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658274/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:08:32 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658274/scat/d805653303cbbba8 who uploaded a history book on his website as a free educational resource for poor students, faces two years in jail, forced labour, or a fine for daring to offend the Latvian government's closest chums. The $4 book was posted by Pavels Jurs, a teacher in Latvia, created the site so that children from poor families can still have access to education. His efforts had been praised by the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658275/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:00:25 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658275/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Windows Mobile have created their first smartphone using Nokia's rejected operating system MeeGo. The team wanted to prove that Nokia was daft killing off MeeGo in favour of Windows and want to prove a point. According ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658278/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:00:24 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658278/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Apple ’s Retina panels look rather outdated. The company has developed a new 4.99-inch AMOLED 1080p panel for smartphones. The resolution is not spectacular, but since going for higher resolutions on such small panels is pointless, Samsung focused its efforts on display quality. It claims the new screen has the world’s broadest colour gamut. Coupled with AMOLED’s exceptional ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658279/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:00:22 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658279/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Dell has become one of the first high profile companies to dump its public cloud plans. The company said that it will not invest in its OpenStack ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658277/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:00:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658277/scat/d805653303cbbba8 to the US government how it managed to kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to pay little or no taxes to any government. Apple CEO Tim Cook's is going to show up before Congress, to explain how the company avoided paying so much tax. The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations identified three subsidiaries that have no "tax residency" in ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658276/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:00:20 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658276/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Current Western military strategy focuses more on drones than on traditional forces, but remote-controlled drones are vulnerable to hijacking. Fully autonomous systems are virtually immune to this. They also lower costs. This means manufacturers sell more, so there is a commercial imperative to develop autonomous systems and for governments to deploy ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658280/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:58:39 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214658280/scat/d805653303cbbba8 sexual harassment against him are 'completely baseless'. According to Murthy the charges were filed by Araceli Roiz a few days ago. "I am not certain if the employee will file harassment charges in court," Murthy said. "I will fight all harassment charges vigorously in court," he ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214657340/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:55 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214657340/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The inaction or delayed action by the licensor and the authority to enforce quality service of the cellular mobile services in the country have cost the government dearly in the recent 2G spectrum ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214657341/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:54 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214657341/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The billion-dollar deal for Tumblr has stirred talk on the next big acquisition target in the sector, with cash-rich tech giants looking for the next potential ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656442/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:57:33 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656442/scat/d805653303cbbba8 MphasiS may face off in a takeover bid for the IT services company with revenues of over $1 billion. Hewlett-Packard's decision to sell the controlling stake in MphasiS has ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656441/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:57:33 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656441/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Twitter citing their stringent privacy settings to decline Indian agencies requests for data on users indulging in suspicious net activity, cybersecurity experts are exploring the option of promoting a 'desi' social networking entity as an alternative to the US-based sites. The idea is to have a parallel Indian social networking site -- possibly owned by a reputed domestic media house ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656443/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:57:30 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656443/scat/d805653303cbbba8 awesome again," said the new site will showcase "bigger images" and create a user experience that is "more immersive, more expressive." Mayer's announcement of the Flickr makeover came only hours after the company announced it was ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656444/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:57:29 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214656444/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Vodafone posted its largest ever quarterly fall in key organic service revenue on Tuesday, prompting it to keep hold of a dividend from its US arm and reinvest it into the business and not return it to shareholders. The world's second largest mobile operator, at the centre of intense speculation as to whether it will sell its US arm in one of the world's largest deals, posted a 4.2% ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214655706/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:57:28 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214655706/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Wipro E.Go Sense - launched in 2010 is not to be seen at any of the retailers, online or brick and mortar, raising fresh questions about the future of the consumer hardware business at the Bangalore-based technology outsourcer. Retailers and industry analysts said the tablet - a laptop with a screen that can be turned 360 degrees, originally priced at about 30,000 - has vanished without a trace, ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214655566/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:54:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214655566/scat/d805653303cbbba8 In April, banks cut their dependence on Central Bank support by EUR300m, taking the total outstanding to EUR52.8bn.Reducing Ireland's need for the loans has been a priority under the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214654729/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:57:26 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214654729/scat/d805653303cbbba8 View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A zoomed image of a computer screen showing the Amazon logo is seen in Vienna November 26, 2012. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214654608/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:48:42 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214654608/scat/d805653303cbbba8 By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's 721.2 million pounds acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal. Luckily for her, her performance may ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653992/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:42:49 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653992/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Apple) A full-size iPad that gets closer to the lean design of the iPad Mini may finally be on the way. Production of the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653996/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:38:04 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653996/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: CNET) More customers are satisfied with Apple's phones than any other handsets, but they're not as happy as they were last year, a new report said. According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index report issued today, Apple received a score of 81 (on a scale of 100) in terms of customer satisfaction. But the company dropped 2 percent from its 2012 position, and the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653995/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:38:02 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653995/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon May 20, 2013 11:56pm EDT MUMBAI May 21 (Reuters) - Outsourcing company iGate Corp said it had sacked its Chief Executive Phaneesh Murthy for not disclosing a relationship with a subordinate after investigating one of India's best-known IT executives for sexual harassment. Murthy was replaced with immediate effect by interim CEO Gerhard Watzinger, iGate said. Murthy was forced to quit ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214654618/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:56:48 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214654618/scat/d805653303cbbba8 In unity with the prison's inmates, the hacking group pledges to disrupt online activities at Guantanamo -- prompting the U.S. military to shut down the base's ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653123/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:34:42 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653123/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Spot) Satellite phones may seem like a niche technology, and in many ways they are. You won't need one while roaming city streets, but they can be invaluable if you're ever trekking far from civilization -- though that didn't ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653122/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:34:41 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653122/scat/d805653303cbbba8 commentary More space for online photo storage is a welcome move, but it's also like having a bigger "shoebox" where more of your photos get lost. How about an increase in ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653121/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:34:40 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653121/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon May 20, 2013 11:26pm EDT * Sprint gets waiver to consider $25.5 bln rival offer from Dish * SoftBank to issue 300 bln yen ($3.9 bln) in bonds in June - filing * Sprint says recommendation in favour of SoftBank offer not changed TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said its Japanese suitor SoftBank Corp granted it a waiver allowing it to consider a $25.5 billion rival bid by Dish ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653143/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:26:33 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214653143/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo bought the company for $3.6 billion. When Yahoo announced its headline-grabbing acquisition, it boasted that the deal gave it access to an "unduplicated" audience of users and that its target was a "popular personal publishing" platform. "Yahoo will be able to integrate and distribute a powerful set of state-of-the-art editing tools and content published through ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652931/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:50:08 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652931/scat/d805653303cbbba8 U.S. crude futures eased to about $96.50 a barrel in early trading in Asia on Tuesday as ample supplies weighed on prices, despite support from equity ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652247/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:46:55 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652247/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The Japanese wireless carrier is letting its rival Dish go into further talks with Sprint, saying that "we are providing this waiver because we are confident in the value of our ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652204/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:01 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652204/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Cat B15 Android smartphone is the newest entrant to the U.S.' rough and ready durable phone tussle. I got my hands on the B15 this past March when it first appeared on the world stage at Mobile World Congress. This U.S. variant is essentially the same handset, except for the cellular support -- AWS bands 1700/2100 to complement GSM 850/1900 support. There's no launch date yet, since ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652205/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:28:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214652205/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Chinese hackers were blamed for breaking into Google's servers in 2010; now, U.S. officials say these cyberattacks may have led to the release of secret government ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651251/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:23:39 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651251/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon May 20, 2013 9:02pm EDT May 20 (Reuters) - Wireless service provider Sprint Nextel Corp received a waiver from SoftBank Corp on various provisions of their merger agreement permitting it to engage in discussions with Dish Network Corp. Satellite TV service Dish made a $25.5 billion counter bid last month for Sprint against SoftBank's October agreement to pay $20.1 billion for 70 percent ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651958/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:02:46 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651958/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Francis Howell senior shortstop Zac Perkins broke two school records in the Vikings' Class 5 District 8 championship win against Holt last ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650772/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:45:52 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650772/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City's Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes _ enough to store more than 500,000 images ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650771/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:45:52 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650771/scat/d805653303cbbba8 "The hearing will examine how Apple Inc., a U.S. multinational corporation, has used a variety of offshore structures, arrangements, and transactions to shift billions of dollars in profits away from the United States and into Ireland, where Apple has negotiated a special corporate tax rate of less than two percent. One of Apple's more unusual tactics has been to establish and direct ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651038/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:28:37 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651038/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Apple executives are set to defend the company's tax practices and call for corporate tax reform on Capitol Hill Tuesday amid harsh criticism following a Senate ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651037/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:28:36 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651037/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Reuters) - U.S. satellite company Dish Network Corp has offered to buy bankrupt broadband company LightSquared Inc's radio frequencies for $2 billion, Bloomberg said, quoting people familiar with the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651039/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:23:14 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651039/scat/d805653303cbbba8 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expanding its services for hosting and processing online data in Australia with the establishment of two new "cloud" computing data centers in the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651040/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:23:12 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651040/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Yahoo on Monday increased the amount of storage Flickr users get by 70-fold, and at the same time quietly introduced a new pro tier that costs users 20 times as much as the one it replaces. That ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650119/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650119/scat/d805653303cbbba8 languish with a fresh coat of paint and a free terabyte of space. Too bad today's photo-sharer has found a home elsewhere and is already accustomed to free. Monday at a press event in New York, Yahoo announced major changes ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650120/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:20 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650120/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Screenshot by Donna Tam/CNET) New York City officials have determined that a man who rented out part of his apartment on Airbnb should pay $2,400 for violating the city's illegal hotel law, despite Airbnb stepping in on the host's behalf. The city initially asked host Nigel Warren ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650121/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:19 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650121/scat/d805653303cbbba8 blog post Monday . Even though Checkout was replaced by Wallet in 2011, it still has been an option for those merchants who are adamant about using the old service in their operations. But on November 20, that will come to an end. Google said by that time merchants who use Checkout will have two options: (1) move to another service, such as Google partners Braintree, Shopify, or Freshbooks, if ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651041/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:18 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214651041/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Android tablet allegedly will sport a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Atom CloverTrail+ chip, industry sources familiar with the product told CNET. The plus sign means the CloverTrial chip packs a high-performance PowerVR SGX544 MP2 graphic processing unit from Imagination Technologies. Other specs include Android 4.2.2 and a 1,280 x 800 display. Samsung is expected to reveal the Galaxy Tab at Computex, ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650124/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:17 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650124/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Apple's Preview program is the default PDF viewer in OS X, and has a number of options for annotating and otherwise managing PDF files. One of its features is support for Quartz filters, which can be applied to PDFs and image files to convert them, for example into sepia, black-and-white, or gray scale. A Quartz filter can be used to reduce the PDF's file size, but while it's ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650123/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:15 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650123/scat/d805653303cbbba8 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) –After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders.That goal led CEO Marissa Mayer to make a $1.1 billion bet on online blogging forum Tumblr in a risky acquisition that revolves around the vision and instincts of a 26-year-old entrepreneur who dropped out of high school to pursue his ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650367/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:14:12 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650367/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Now, however, his tool of choice is the high-resolution camera on his iPhone. When he found a document of interest, he quickly snapped a photo and instantly shared his discovery with a colleague working hundreds of miles away. Indeed, Mr. Fernstedt, who conducts his research on several continents, now packs his own substantial digital Popper library on the disk of his MacBook Air laptop computer ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214649878/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:25:30 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214649878/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214649896/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:22:26 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214649896/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo Inc. lured Marissa Mayer from Google in July to become its fifth CEO in as many years. Her task: Help the Internet pioneer regain its stature after years in a financial funk. In her 10 months leading the company, she has overseen a redesign of Yahoo services and orchestrated several acquisitions, including a deal to buy online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648908/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:22:07 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648908/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The new Flickr homepage offers "endless scrolling," a la Pinterest and features huge photos on the left side of the page, with smaller pictures and social options on the right. Personal photo pages also got a revamp that focuses on big images. Photos won't lose any fidelity when they're uploaded and shared, and all Flickr users now get a whopping one terabyte of storage, which ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648929/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:14:51 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648929/scat/d805653303cbbba8 iPad to lock down digital diary entries and keep secret crushes and innermost thoughts safe from prying eyes. The gold heart necklace, designed with preteens and teens in mind, works with the iHeart Locket Diary App for iOS. The diary app holds text, pictures, speech-to-text audio, and written notes, making it more of a digital scrapbook than a simple ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648934/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:03:23 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648934/scat/d805653303cbbba8 , the U.S. military's dolphin program, active since the 1960s, has had quite a bit of success. Dolphins, you see, are capable of producing sonar, and have an aptitude for learning commands, proving to be much more useful than machines for aquatic mine detection. "Dolphins naturally possess the most sophisticated sonar known to man," explains Braden Duryee, operations supervisor ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648933/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:03:23 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214648933/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon May 20, 2013 7:00pm EDT By Patrick Temple-West and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO May 20 (Reuters) - Using an unusual global tax structure, Apple Inc has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to pay little or no taxes to any government, a U.S. Senate report on the company's offshore tax structure said on Monday. In a 40-page memorandum released a day before ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650187/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:00:24 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214650187/scat/d805653303cbbba8 $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr , Yahoo announced some major updates to its Flickr photo-sharing service. "Tonight is about Flickr," Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said at an event in New York City Monday evening. "It is about that other 'R' brand and how we can make Flickr awesome again." To that end, Yahoo announced three main changes to Flickr: a cleaner design, ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214649101/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:59:42 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214649101/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Macy's has announced it will close its downtown store in the 100-year-old Railway Exchange Building, where over the years customers have ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644474/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:25:43 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644474/scat/d805653303cbbba8 IDG News Service - Yahoo has promised "not to screw up" Tumblr now that it has acquired the freewheeling blogging site. But there are still several ways Tumblr could get better, and worse, as a Yahoo-owned company. On the bad side, there's the threat of excessive advertising. "Tumblr has been unprofitable, and Yahoo has to figure out how to monetize it," said Forrester ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644651/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:15:34 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644651/scat/d805653303cbbba8 , it's in the southern Irish city of Cork that Apple pioneered its famous "double irish with a Dutch sandwich" -- a tax avoidance technique designed to take advantage of a quirk in Ireland's tax laws that allows foreign corporations to move money around the world tax free. Perhaps anticipating that this is what the senators want to talk about, Apple spent nearly half of the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644186/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:09:11 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644186/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Apple executives are set to defend the company's tax practices and call for corporate tax reform that would allow it to bring some of the billions of dollars in cash it has overseas back to the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643843/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:09:07 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643843/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo’s narrative arc as a company can be defined by its acquisitions, which taken together also serve as one take on the history of the web itself. In the Yahoo version of that history, founders and backers of overvalued companies enjoy huge exits while the buyer tends to learn too late that its exuberance was irrational. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will soon find out whether her ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644812/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:04:52 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644812/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Windows users, rejoice! Leap Motion is coming to a PC near you, and for the first time, you can see what it will be like. Today, Leap Motion released ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643848/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:09 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643848/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Digital Paper touch-panel display was recently shown off at Educational IT Solutions Expo (EDIX) in Tokyo. Sony is planning to try it out at Japanese universities and bring it to the general market this year. It incorporates ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643847/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:08 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643847/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Screenshot by Dan Farber/CNET) LightSquared's wireless spectrum could be getting a new owner, according to a new ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644813/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:07 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214644813/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Facebook) Sharing is caring -- if your Facebook and your network depends on it. Monday, the social network simplified the process for sharing activities from third-party iOS apps to Facebook. The company rolled out something called the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643851/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:59:06 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643851/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion to buy blogging forum Tumblr, ranking it in among the top 10 tech deals announced this year, according to research firm Dealogic. Here's a list of the top 10 tech mergers and acquisitions in 2013. Valuation is based on Dealogic's criteria and includes ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643458/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:20:41 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643458/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo is paying $1.1 billion to buy the popular blogging site Tumblr. It's part of Yahoo's comeback efforts, after years in a financial funk. Tumblr will give Yahoo more opportunities to sell advertising. Here's how the two companies compare:- TUMBLRFOUNDED: February 2007 by software consultant David Karp and Web developer Marco Arment.HEADQUARTERS: New YorkLEADERSHIP: Founder ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643359/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:16:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643359/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Commuters who manage to make it from southwest Connecticut to New York City for work should consider staying in the Big Apple all week as crews begin rebuilding 2,000 feet of track following a commuter ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643305/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:43 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643305/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The statement from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer begins with a promise "not to screw it up", whilst assuring users that David Karp will remain CEO and that Yahoo! will "operate Tumblr independently".The deal went through for $1.1 billion (723 million) in cash, a sum justified by Tumblr's impressive numbers as one of the world's fastest growing social-media networks.The ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642846/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:03:10 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642846/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Square Cash, which is invite-only for now, lets anyone send money simply by sending an e-mail. It's not known whether either party in the transaction has to have a Square ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642620/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:02:43 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642620/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The Connective is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643666/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:00:54 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643666/scat/d805653303cbbba8 car . Police in Fresno, Calif., say that a 911 operator received a call. No one was on the other end. However, the dispatcher decided to keep listening and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643667/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:55:36 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643667/scat/d805653303cbbba8 harness energy from the force of the heel hitting the ground . The prototype -- while admittedly big, unattractive, and impractical to wear 100 percent of the time (think sleeping, showering, etc.) -- demonstrates that the simple act of walking may one day power a wide range of electronics, including medical devices such as pacemakers and artificial hearts. "Theoretically, it would be ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643668/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:55:35 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643668/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Android provides users with options such as automatic photo enhancements and Auto Awesome. Other features include the instant hashtagging, quick access to Hangouts, and improved notifications. Building off of the tools that came ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642548/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:55:31 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642548/scat/d805653303cbbba8 HTC One to be on top of the world, but thanks to British mountaineer Daniel Hughes, the high-end Android phone is the first to make a video call from the highest point on Earth. Hughes, who's trying to raise $1.5 million for Comic Relief -- it's also the highest ever Red Nose -- spoke ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642547/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:55:30 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642547/scat/d805653303cbbba8 see Facebook and Instagram ) there are big questions about what will happen to Tumblr as its users know it today. Some have started to jump ship by ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643669/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:52:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214643669/scat/d805653303cbbba8 BOISE, Idaho -; An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends that central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site have heisted his ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642084/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:17:38 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642084/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Natural gas is the top performing commodity after President Obama approved a $10 billion natural gas export facility last week. Andrew Lipow, Lipow Oil Associates, shares his outlook for the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642360/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:08:23 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642360/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The Connective is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642361/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:57:10 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214642361/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Galaxy S4 variant is meant to be resistant to dust and water, which is fortunate for those times when you feel compelled to tweet while rolling down a sand dune into a rushing ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641333/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:52:00 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641333/scat/d805653303cbbba8 An 18-year-old's science fair project leads her to create an improved supercapacitor with technology that could provide super-fast phone charging in the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641335/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641335/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Hooked Digital Media) In recent years, we've seen people dabble in bringing a narrative film experience to mobile phones. It makes sense -- there's an interactive personal screen in your pocket that allows you to pick up content wherever you go. But neither the interactive film ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641334/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:59 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641334/scat/d805653303cbbba8 As the company integrates Google Voice into its social network, the latest update for Hangouts is missing the ability to make outbound phone calls. Users can still receive calls to their Google Voice ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641337/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641337/scat/d805653303cbbba8 FILE - In this April 18, 2011 file photo, the Yahoo logo is displayed outside of the offices in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640874/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:13:35 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640874/scat/d805653303cbbba8 MIAMI - The U.S. military has shut down wireless internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba because of online hacking threats.A spokesman for the Guantanamo Bay prison says that officials have also blocked access to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter through military computer networks because of the threat.Army Lt. Col. Samuel House says the precautions were taken because ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640914/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:08:09 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214640914/scat/d805653303cbbba8 John Chambers says the profits from Cisco Systems’ new strategy are still one to three years away. The strategy, however, is already becoming more clear: Big Data will only work if it's delivered through the network, and that could go hand-in-hand with consolidation among companies that specialize in data analysis and networking or traditional computing. "You can't ship the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641154/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:43 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641154/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The Freedom 2000 battery case from MyCharge. Knowing that power and protection are a constant necessity for personal devices, technology companies have lately been combining both into a single case. MyCharge, a maker of backup batteries, has joined the competition with a model for the iPhone 5, the Freedom 2000. Named for the 2,000-milliamp-hour battery inside, the Freedom 2000 provides power ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641153/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:43 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641153/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Tumblr is the latest, and perhaps buzziest, startup to be acquired by Yahoo -- but the purple tech giant's track record for previous mergers is spotty at ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641005/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:11 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641005/scat/d805653303cbbba8 LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday told Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other business leaders that he expected their companies to pay their taxes in exchange for benefiting from low tax ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639859/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:48:47 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639859/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Petcube is a smartphone-controlled Webcam that shines a laser spot around when you're out. It might make you feel less guilty about leaving little Rover home ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639920/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:41 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639920/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo confirms $1.1B Tumblr buy, promises 'not to screw it up' The simplest and most obvious reason for Yahoo's interest in Tumblr can be seen in the chart above, which highlights the dramatically differing demographic profiles for the media portal and the blogging network. It's a tale of two audiences. Tumblr is a fountain of youth. Yahoo is practically a retirement ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639923/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:39 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639923/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Mississippi Entomological Museum, Joe MacGown) It sounds like an old black-and-white monster movie. Crazy, tech-nesting ants invade America! That would make for a great matinee, but it's oh so very real. Tawny crazy ants, known scientifically as Nylanderia fulva, are marching into territories once dominated by fire ants -- and they're not being very good neighbors. While ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639922/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:39 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639922/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Has it really only been eight years since we first clapped eyes on the PlayStation 3? Oh wait, yes, it has. And we've spent several of those long, dark years desperately awaiting a glimpse of some exotic, new gaming hardware from Sony. The test of endurance is almost at an end, as the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641155/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:38 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214641155/scat/d805653303cbbba8 By Sarah McBrideSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two of the nation's biggest online food delivery businesses said they are merging in a deal that they hope will drive more orders, in more cities, through their platforms.GrubHub and Seamless, which allow consumers to easily order online from various restaurants, are part of a group of fast-growing businesses that standardize local services under a ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638533/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:15 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638533/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, along with Pactera's CEO and other managers, have offered to take Pactera private in a deal that values the Chinese technology consulting and outsourcing firm at $680.4 million.Shares rose 31 percent Monday. Through Friday's close, before news of the offer, Pactera's stock had lost about two-thirds of its value over the past year.Blackstone ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639485/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:12 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639485/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Which will it be? FORTUNE -- Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr looks like an expensive and misguided attempt by chief executive Marissa Mayer to somehow make the Web 1.0 company "cool" again. Instead of innovating her way out of the mediocre corner of the Internet in which Yahoo currently resides, the former Google executive has instead decided to take the company's ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639578/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:41:38 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639578/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Earlier this month, several employees of the satirical news website The Onion received what looked like harmless unsolicited emails, containing apparently innocuous hyperlinks. One such message purported to be from an address at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; it invited the recipient to click through to an article seemingly from The Washington Post. In fact, the link redirected to a page ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638610/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:42 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638610/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Washington: An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge a cellphone in less than 20 seconds.Eesha Khare from Saratoga in California was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Intel Foundation after developing the tiny device that fits inside mobile phone batteries that could allow them to charge within 20-30 seconds.The so-called ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638988/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:37:10 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638988/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) It's a good thing you weren't standing on the Mare Imbrium on the moon on March 17. You might have been ground into space dust. A meteoroid "the size of a small boulder" crashed into the lunar surface and exploded with a flash so bright, it was visible to the naked eye from Earth. NASA has been keeping an eye on the moon ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638571/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:10 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638571/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) Five months later, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is once again aloft. United Flight 1, took off from Houston this morning en route to Chicago. It marked the first flight of Boeing's next-generation airliner since the entire worldwide fleet of ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638570/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:09 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638570/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Google Glass is in for a bumpy ride. Unlike some journalists, I believe that Glass has great potential, especially when developers build more apps for it. Google faces an uphill battle of Everest proportions spurring mass adoption for the device, though. Just because it's "the future" doesn't mean it will be embraced by the public (see: Segway). I believe Google Glass faces ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638569/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:08 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638569/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Microsoft) A former Grand Theft Auto producer at Rockstar Games thinks that the next, next generation in consoles won't have three hardware makers competing for your dollars. Speaking to Games Industry in ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638572/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:07 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638572/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Pinterest now offers users more information behind all those pretty pictures. The scrapbooking social network today tweaked the power of certain pins to provide more details on the showcased items, thanks to new active links to third-party Web sites. As described in the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638573/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:07 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638573/scat/d805653303cbbba8 It's late, you didn't have time to make dinner, and now you're in the mood for sushi. Chances are, you reach for your phone, fire up either the Seamless or GrubHub app, sort by restaurant, select your meal, place your order and wait for the delivery person to knock on your door. Soon, those two food app companies will become one. Seamless and GrubHub announced today that they ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639714/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:27:42 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639714/scat/d805653303cbbba8 First time firing a gun? There's help at hand - a new "self-aiming" rifle can help even a novice hit the target at long range on the first go. But the technology has its critics, who see it as a serious threat to public ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639665/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:08 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214639665/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Dell has reiterated its call to corporate raider Carl Icahn to submit more details about his proposal to buy the firm and said it will not talk to the investor unless further details are forthcoming. Dell is in the midst of a messy shareholder battle ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638362/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:50 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638362/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Samsung has unveiled plans to launch a 13.3in LCD display for a future ultrabook range with 3200x1800 resolution, offering 254ppi pixel density. If true, that would beat Apple's equivalent 13in Macbook Pro Retina display, which has 2560x1600 resolution and 227ppi, as well ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638363/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:49 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638363/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Sony will reveal its Playstation 4 (PS4) at the E3 event next month and has today, on the eve of Microsoft's Xbox 720 launch, produced a teaser clip for fans. The video is more "Ooooh?" than "Aaaaah!" and it doesn't really show us much. We'll just have to wait until Sony's press conference at E3 in June for the big ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638364/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:49 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638364/scat/d805653303cbbba8 EE's 4G data network apparently suffered from an outage in the UK on Monday, with users complaining of not being able to access the web. Typically, we know this because of Twitter, where EE customers have flocked to bemoan their lack of mobile ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638365/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:48 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638365/scat/d805653303cbbba8 TOUTED AS the highest resolution ereader on the market, the Kobo Aura HD features a 6.8in backlit screen with a 1440x1080 resolution display for sharper text and images compared to its rivals. Announced ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638366/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:47 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638366/scat/d805653303cbbba8 has been released. While the trailer does not offer any game play it is five minutes long and includes a mix of old and new Batman motifs - see the ticking bomb, the choke hold and a headbutt. The trailer is an extended fight between Batman and an assassin called Death Stroke. Batman gets squashed by another assassin but apparently dodges the bullet, and by bullet we meet a massive shipping ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638367/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:47 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638367/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to "screw it up." The deal is worth about $1.1 billion, nearly all in cash. "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business," Yahoo said in a statement on Monday. Tumblr CEO and founder David ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638370/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638370/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Pintererest users who click on the pin of a tasty-looking meal may now discover a recipe to cook up the dish themselves. The scrapbooking social network today tweaked the power of certain pins to provide more details on the pinned item, courtesy of third-party Web sites. As described in the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637167/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:32 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637167/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Zinio's new Z-Pass , a $5 subscription option that gives you a choice of three digitally delivered magazines per month. You can try that free for a month, but here's an even better deal: ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637168/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:31 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637168/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: NextGuide) While most companies are making the jump from Web to mobile, NextGuide, the app that tells you when and where your favorite shows are on, has decided to go the opposite way. The social TV guide for iOS is now on the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637166/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:31 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637166/scat/d805653303cbbba8 original "Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark" , released in 2009, offered some excellent patterns to help setting up TVs, and ingenious test patterns to judge the performance of deinterlacers and scalers. Though anyone could buy it, it wasn't as entry-level or as user-friendly as "Disney's World of Wonder" setup discs. The updated second edition adds myriad new setup ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637169/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:29 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637169/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The show will air in 2014, first as a one-hour special and then as a regular series. It's set chronologically between the third prequel film and the original "Star Wars" ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637171/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:27 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214637171/scat/d805653303cbbba8 By Natasha BakerTORONTO (Reuters) - A new app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks.The Sonnet Project is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that showcases the bard's poetry through films of up to two minutes and performances by Tony-Award winning ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636605/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:48:52 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636605/scat/d805653303cbbba8 , has in recent years become a supporter of software patents and their licensing. However the firm said that the present system in which firms do not have to reveal what patents they own is flawed, and it is supporting the End Anonymous Patents Act. The End Anonymous Patents Act has been introduced by US Representative Ted Deutch and would require all patents to have ownership data attached to ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636758/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:48:04 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636758/scat/d805653303cbbba8 , claiming that bloggers are flocking to his website following the expensive buyout. Matt Mullenweng, the creator of Wordpress has apparently already seen a backlash following Yahoo's Tumblr acqusition, and doesn't seem to mind talking about it. According to Mullenweng, the number of imports from Tumblr to Wordpress climbed to over 72,000 per hour over the weekend, a huge spike from ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636757/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:48:04 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636757/scat/d805653303cbbba8 recent report by McKinsey & Co. shows that e-commerce sales in China reached an estimated $190 billion last year, almost equaling the U.S. market as largest in the world. China's online retail industry is expected to grow to at least $420 billion by 2020-which would total more than the U.S., Japanese, U.K., German, and French markets combined. China will overtake the U.S. for the top ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635787/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:30 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635787/scat/d805653303cbbba8 FORTUNE --- If you hadn't heard of Tableau Softwarebefore its glamorous debut on the public market last Friday, you're not alone. The Seattle-based company ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636613/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:29 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636613/scat/d805653303cbbba8 "It is probably the most common technical analysis pattern in trading," he explains. "An Inverse Head and Shoulders pattern is an extremely bullish reversal pattern, it occurs when a stock forms a bottom by printing a series of 3 lows. What's important about this pattern is volume. Volume must be heavy on the lowest low, because that signals a wash out and exhaustion in ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636614/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:28 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636614/scat/d805653303cbbba8 HELSINKI | Mon May 20, 2013 11:28am EDT HELSINKI May 20 (Reuters) - A group of ex-Nokia software developers unveiled its first smartphone on Monday, aiming to prove their former employer wrong by making a success of a technology dropped by the Finnish mobile phone maker. Jolla was founded by Nokia's former MeeGo software team that was shut down after the company decided to switch to ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638225/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:28:50 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214638225/scat/d805653303cbbba8 After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose privileged access in E.U. policy making, said in a complaint Thursday that the European Privacy Association is working to represent industry interests in the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636788/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:24:24 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214636788/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: Maggie Reardon/CNET) Sprint Nextel has acquired Handmark and its unit OneLouder Apps to boost its Pinsight Media+ advertising ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635669/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:57 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635669/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Samsung will demo a new LCD screen that would top similar displays in resolution and pixel density. Geared for notebooks, the 13.3-inch WQXGA+ LCD ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635670/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:55 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635670/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg says he usually sees 400 to 600 blog post defections from Tumblr per hour. But that figure apparently skyrocketed after news of the deal surfaced ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635671/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:54 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635671/scat/d805653303cbbba8 revenue per visitor of $57.60 during the first quarter , mobile analyst Horace Dediu said Monday in his Asymco blog. The number of visitors rose by 7 percent from the prior year's first quarter. As such, the average revenue per Apple store reached $13 million for the quarter, the highest number ever for a non-holiday quarter, Dediu noted. The average number of visitors per store hit 250,000 ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635672/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:53 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635672/scat/d805653303cbbba8 WASHINGTON -; The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cell phone ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634354/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:47:41 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634354/scat/d805653303cbbba8 The BBC Trust's report (PDF) was published today and followed up on early summaries in 2008 and 2010. This is the first time that the online services have been reviewed together. Overall the appraisal was that the BBC is a popular source for news and telly, but could be easier to navigate. The BBC has a target to reach 65 percent of the UK online population by 2014. It is on its way, but so ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635335/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:44:49 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635335/scat/d805653303cbbba8 . In comparison, Samsung's Galaxy S4 can now be picked up from £552.00 SIM-free, while Apple's cheapest iPhone 5 is priced at £529.00. The website is also selling the handset on two year pay monthly contracts with T-Mobile and Vodafone, with the cheapest tariff priced at £37 a month. This will get buyers a free Nokia Lumia 925 handset, 600 minutes, unlimited texts and ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635336/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:44:48 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635336/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Along with its billion-dollar intent to purchase Tumblr, Yahoo finds a new home for official blog -- and tries to drive home the message that all will be ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634378/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:24:33 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634378/scat/d805653303cbbba8 CHICAGO (AP) -- Seamless North America and GrubHub on Monday announced plans to combine and create an online food ordering service covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634969/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:23:32 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634969/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Lem concluded we should abandon analysis for creative activity (Image: Aleksander Jalosinski/Forum/Reuters/Corbis) WHEN Germany occupied Poland during the second world war, a young Pole was scratching a living under false papers as a car mechanic. The man, Stanislaw Lem, who was to become one of world's most famous science fiction writers, used to "mend" German vehicles so they ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635337/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:20:52 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214635337/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Along with its billion-dollar intent to purchase Tumblr, Yahoo finds a new home for official blog -- and tries to drive home the message that all will be ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634283/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:17:21 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634283/scat/d805653303cbbba8 (Credit: James Martin/CNET) LG Display is preparing to demonstrate a new, flexible smartphone panel that promises to be unbreakable. The new screen is set to pop up at the Society for Information Display's annual ... http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634284/scat/d805653303cbbba8 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:17:15 -0400 http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/214634284/scat/d805653303cbbba8