The Best Notebooks So Far

                                                                   Best Gaming Laptop

  

Alienware M17x
Pretty much the diametric opposite of a budget laptop, the Alienware M17x (2011) is a monster. Its massive benchmarks are made more ridiculous by five hours of battery life-an eternity

                                                         Best Value Notebook

HP Pavilion G6x

Sweet sound, an attractive design, and a comfortable keyboard make the HP Pavilion g6x one of our favorite budget notebooks.

                                                         Best All Purpose Notebook
 

HP Pavilion dv6t

The sleek HP Pavilion dv6t delivers a strong multimedia experience with a fast processor, bright display, and Beats audio.

                                                    Best Thin & light Notebook

Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch (2011)

The most well-rounded 13-inch notebook gets a serious speed boost and lasts even longer on a charge than its predecessor.


                                              Best Ultra portable Notebook

Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (2010)

Apple's ultimate ultraportable combines a barely-there profile with a high-resolution display, instant-on functionality, and long battery life.

                                                Best Network Storage Alternative

TS-459 Pro I

Best Networked Storage Alternative
Some aspects of the TS-459 pro II hardware are comparable to the competition, and in other respects, it's just head and shoulders above the rest. A 1.8GHz dual-core Atom powers the TS-459 Pro II, and 1GB of DDR3 RAM comes preinstalled, though you can upgrade to 3GB yourself. QNAP also offers more connectivity options than most mortals will know what to do with, and it's strong on the software side, too.


                                                             Best Wireless Mouse

 

The Logitech performance Mouse MX takes everything that's great about the Marathon Mouse-the same wonderful scroll wheel, the same smooth glide, similar (but better) thumb-buttons-and improves upon it. The laser it uses to track its position will even work on clear glass, which is crazy. It's also rechargeable.

First Bank's FirstMobile and FirstMonie

 

Firstmonie - https://www.firstmonie.com/iweb/

•FirstMonie™ is a payment service which allows a Mobile phone to be used as a virtual wallet for secure, fast, affordable and convenient payments.     The mobile phone number serves as the    

     account number.

•The service is available on all GSM Mobile Network in Nigeria (MTN, Airtel, Glo, Etisalat) and eventually the CDMA networks (Visafone, Multilink, Starcoms etc).

•It works on all phone types. From the most basic phone to sophisticated smartphones, FirstMonie™  experience is the same.

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•All you need is just a mobile phone

FirstMobile – http://mobile.etranzact.com/FirstMobile.jad
 https://webpay.interswitchng.com/download/firstmobile

FirstMobile is a network independent mobile phone solution that provides financial services and other value added services using the mobile phone and a payment card(Debit – prepaid cards).

Internet-Based Business: Startup Rules

Internet-Based Business: Startup Rules

1. Pre-packaged programs only work as much as you can customize it and make it unique and your own. Even then, techniques that work for one niche won’t work in all niches.
2. Be wary of any “system” that promises instant results (especially anything that sounds like a get-rich-quick scheme!)
3. Knowing the basics of html, SEO (search engine optimization), social media marketing, website marketing and traditional marketing and sales are a must.
4. Every business is made stronger by specializing in a tight niche. Know your audience and stick to it.

INTERNET and E-COMMERCE

The dimension of electronic transactions for any business offers global opportunities and challenges. With the sophistication in the softwares and applications used to develop online stores and integrate secure mode of payments developing an ecommerce site is becoming simpler day by day and cost effective.
But, like any real time business, e-business also needs the attention, focus and hard work to establish goodwill, reputation and profitability, the online business also needs the same energies, strategies and focus to become a success on the WWW. The business challenges of competition, marketing, offering online customer support, attending to potential customers, settling payments, refunds, executing orders, integrating accounts, etc. are applicable to any online business too. Of course, once all these are put in place your business has a global platform with a faster and wider reach and the potential of running your business tapping the local and global market even when you are in your deepest slumber. The number of payment gateways in Nigeria is increasing day-by-day as these eCommerce companies realize how much revenue they can generate from these services. A host of them like Visa, MasterCard, Interswitch, E-tranzact, CashEnvoy, Quickteller, firstpaylink e.t.c has helped the drop the price of integrating the payment gateway module on webstores. The competition is increasing and there's more coming even here in Nigeria.

Webman

HTC J Butterfly with 5-inch 1080p display

HTC has announced its first smartphone with a full HD display in Japan on Wednesday. Featuring a 5-inch Super LCD 3 display with 1920x1080p display, the smartphone is known as HTC J Butterfly and will be released on Japanese telco au by KDDI.
According to the company, J Butterfly will go on sale in the country in early December; however it did not reveal anything about the international launch.
This is the first full HD smartphone that we have seen till now; the display on the phone sports a huge 440 pixels-per-inch (PPI). Other features of the HTC J Butterfly include 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 Pro quad-core processor, 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage.
The smartphone also comes with 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, Android 4.1, HTC Sense 4+ and 2020 mAh battery.
Connectivity options include HDMI out, microUSB, Infrared, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC.
J Butterfly is expected to be a Japan specific model, but we hope to see similar phone from HTC in other countries.
HTC, which is struggling big time in the smartphone market, is trying to focus on high-end devices to get back to its original spot. Company had recently launched an improved version of its flagship One X, called One X+, which will soon available in countries across the globe.
We have also heard rumours of a Nexus smartphone from the company, which is going to be based on J Butterfly, but no credible reports have come out so-far.

USB 3.0

Western Digital announces its smallest external drive with USB 3.0

The move from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0 ports gives the drives a 10-fold bandwidth increase

 Y'all know the popular WD Hard disk drive

Western Digital today announced what it is calling its smallest external hard disk drive, the 500GB My Passport Edge, for both Macs and PCs. The new drives are 4.34 inches long by 3.2-inches wide and .5-inches thick.
The drives are also an upgrade from the USB 2.0 (480Mbps) to the USB 3.0 (5Gbps) USB I/O interface.
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"USB 3.0 for single drive is as fast as Thunderbolt," said Ralf San Jose, WD's branded product manager. San Jose was referring to the hard drive's inability to saturate Thunderbolt, Intel's high-speed interconnect technology, and its 10Gbps of bandwidth.
The My Passport Edge drives come in an all aluminum housing and have native, hardware-based encryption. The MyPassport Edge for Mac, complements Apple's new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineups in looks and also in that they come configured to take advantage of Apple's Time Machine backup feature.

By Lucas Mearian

Invitation Facebook Virus

Please circulate this message to your friends and family on your contact list. Over the next few days you should be very careful ... Do not open a message with an attachment called "Invitation Facebook", regardless of who sent it. It is a virus that opens an Olympic flame that burns the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone you had in your address book. Therefore, you should send this message to all your contacts. It is better to receive this e-mail 25 times than to receive the virus and open it. If you receive E-MAIL called: "Invitation Facebook", but sent by a friend, do not open it and remove it immediately. CNN said it is a new virus was discovered recently and has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. It is a Trojan horse that prompts you to install an Adobe Flash plug-in. When you install it, it's over. And there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the hard disk, where vital information is stored .