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How Google and Apple’s digital mapping is mapping us?

ARYAN'S BLOG

Digital maps on smartphones are brilliantly useful tools, but what sort of information do they gather about us – and how do they shape the way we look at the world?

Over the last few years, at the kinds of conferences where the world’s technological elite gathers to mainline caffeine and determine the course of history, Google has entertained the crowds with a contraption it calls Liquid Galaxy. It consists of eight large LCD screens, turned on their ends and arranged in a circle, with a joystick at the centre. The screens display vivid satellite imagery from Google Earth, and the joystick permits three-dimensional “flight”, so that stepping inside Liquid Galaxy feels like boarding your own personal UFO, in which you can zoom from the darkness of space down to the ocean’s surface, cruising low over deserts, or inspecting the tops of skyscrapers. (The illusion of real movement is…

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Sheria Mtaani

Apple won a decisive victory against Samsung in court last week when a jury awarded $1.05 billion in damages to Apple for Samsung’s infringement of design patents, software patents and trade dress.

The Apple Vs. Samsung ruling has been released, and there is a lot to process in there, but one of the most interesting things is the list showing how much each Samsung contributed to the more than $1 billion ruling Accused Samsung Product Amount

Captivate (JX 1011) $80,840,162

Continuum (JX 1016) $16,399,117

Droid Charge (JX 1025) $50,672,869

Epic 4G (JX1012) $130,180,896

Exhibit 4G (JX 1028) $1,081,820

Fascinate (JX 1013) $143,539,179

Galaxy Ace (JX 1030)$0

Galaxy Prevail (JX 1022) $57,867,383

Galaxy S (i9000) (JX 1007) $0

Galaxy S 4G (JX 1019) $73,344,668

Galaxy S II (AT&T) (JX 1031) $40,496,358

Galaxy S II (i9100) (JX 1032) $0

Galaxy S II (T-Mobile) (JX 1033) $83,791,708

Galaxy S II (Epic 4G Touch)…

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Harry Potter series finally available as e-books

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Already turned into blockbuster films, J.K. Rowling's
Already turned into blockbuster films, J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” books are finally available for e-readers.

Finally, fans of the world’s most famous boy wizard can follow his fight against the evil Lord Voldemort on their e-readers.

The entire “Harry Potter” series is now available in digital form at pottermore, author J.K Rowling’s website for all things Potter, ending what was easily the biggest e-book holdout in the literary world.

The books come in a downloadable format that is compatible with all leading e-readers, tablets, personal computers and smartphones — including Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook. Readers seeking the e-books on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s site will be directed to Pottermore to buy them.

“For years our customers have loved reading Harry Potter books in print, and have made them the best-selling print book series on Amazon.com,” said Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s vice president of Kindle content. “We’re…

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BULLETFAME

The late singer is being sued for a large sum of money by a treatment facility for unpaid fees, TMZ reports.

Officials from the CareMeridian treatment facility claim they were never paid for treating the 41-year-old when he suffered his second stroke in 2008. The facility is known for caring for patients who suffer from ruinous injuries.

The treatment facility has also presented legal papers (obtained by TMZ), stating that the singer ‘received more than $290,000 (N46.4M) in medical treatment’. One of Nate’s managers David Michery was said to have guaranteed that payment would be made.

But according to the lawsuit filed, the fees were never paid, even after the singer died in March 2011. A court has now ordered Michery to cough out the sum of $293,512.52 (N46.9M).

Nate’s family could be forced to sell the late singer’s estate to make settlement.

The ‘hook master’ released three studio albums…

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