Social Media
Hangout On Google Summer Of Code To Air On February 24
Google recently began accepting applications for its Summer of Code 2012. On Friday, February 24th, there’ll be a special Google+ Hangout by Googlers, specially to inform Sub-Saharan Africa students about its Summer of Code program. To watch the hangout, you need to be a Google+ user, and you need to have added Carol Smith to your circles so you can watch the Hangout on her profile page. Questions will be asked via the hashtag #gsoc. Remember, Google is still accepting... Read More
Co-Creation Hub Raises Fund To Rebuild Roof Of Yaba Police Barracks
For all those not aware, there was a storm in the early hours of Monday, February 13th in some parts of Lagos especially Yaba and the Victoria Island-Lekki Axis. I’ve spent my entire life in Lagos and I’ve lived in Yaba for 7 years. Honestly, I’ve never seen such destruction from rain before. It started around 6.30 AM. At first there was this heavy wind, then water started seeping in from my door. We live on the 2nd Floor! I got out later in the day and the effect... Read More
Mobile
Barnes & Noble Attacks Kindle Fire With $199 Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble has announced its release of an 8GB version of its Nook Tablet, directly aiming Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Nook Colors price has also been slashed to $169. The original Nook Tablet had internal storage of 16GB with a 7-inch IPS LCD screen, a 1GHz dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM, and a microSD slot [...]
Gadgets
RIM Releases BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 [VIDEO]
RIM has publicly released PlayBook OS 2.0 for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet line. The new OS is faster and comes with native calendar, contacts and messages apps. It also includes Facebook and Twitter integration in Messages as well as document editing and viewing app Documents To Go. Another new feature is BlackBerry Bridge – allowing [...]
Business
CC-Hub Launches LagosInnovation.com To Track Clusters Of Innovation Across Lagos
At the rate Co-Creation Hub is going, we might need a special person to cover just them. Nigeria’s Co-Creation Hub has launched a new website, LagosInnovation.com, which is aimed at mapping hotspots representing representing clusters of emerging high growth and competitive businesses across Lagos State. The purpose of the website is to assemble a detailed [...]
Gaming
FIFA Street 2012 Trailer: A Preview of What’s To Come
FIFA Street 2012, the fourth installment in the FIFA Street series, is set to be released in less than a month. In general, most people do not know what to expect from FIFA Street 2012, which is the first FIFA Street out in four years; the last one was released way back in 2008. Below [...]
