Samsung to make first ever smartphone chip with 4GB of RAM

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has developed the first 8Gb low-power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile DRAM. This chip can transmit 3.2Gbps over each of their electric connection, which is twice that of today’s DDR3 and also consumes 40 percent less power.

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Quotes for the Week: Walter Percy Chrysler (1875 - 1940)

Walter Chrysler was an American automotive executive and the founder of Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler went from being a machinist and railroad mechanic to building one of the biggest automobile companies in the world.

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Google is the most talked about company of the year 2013

Statistics from Dow Jones has revealed that Google is the most talked about company of the year 2013 after overtaking Apple which moved from first place last year to second place this year.

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Inventor of AK-47 assault rifle dies

The inventor of the most popular assault rifle has passed on after being in the intensive care in Izhevsk since November 17. Mikhail Kalashnikov’s invention has been credited for more deaths of human beings than any other weapon.

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Quotes for the Week: Pythagoras (570BC – 495BC)

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist. Pythagoras is popular for Pythagoras theorem in Mathematics. Yes, the one inside mathematical sets which we used mostly in secondary school and some are presently using.

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WhatsApp now has over 400 million monthly active users

In the mobile messaging battle which we can say WhatsApp is leading, WhatsApp has further given data supporting its leadership in mobile messaging. WhatsApp has revealed that it now has over 400 million active users per month.

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Quotes for the Week: Aristotle (384BC – 322BC)

Aristotle is one of the fathers of philosophy and contributed to so many fields including science while he was alive. He had writings in many subjects which include physics, metaphysics, poetry, music, logic, politics, etc.

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What will Airtel gain from this move?

Over the past week, Airtel Nigeria sent a text message to its users notifying them that its blackberry data subscription will stop working on phones that are not blackberry from the 3rd of December onwards.

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Apple agrees deal to bring iPhones to China Mobile

Reports from the Wall Street Journal have indicated that Apple has concluded a deal with China Mobile to bring iPhone 5S and 5C to the world’s largest telecommunications company for the first time.

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Nokia in the last decade, where are they now?

To most things in life, the rule of survival of the fittest applies to make competition and adaptation possible among people and even animals. Like Charles Darwin said, the strongest animal is not the one that survives, but the one that can adapt to changes better.

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Future: Amazon to use drones for delivery

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed that the largest online retailer in the world is testing unmanned drones that would be used to deliver light products in a short period of time to customers.

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Quotes for the Week: Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)

Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist who contributed a great deal to the field of science. He was popular for Gauss law which gave the relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source.

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