Home Quote Of The Day

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
― Josh Gates

A New and Better Way to Infuse Data into Your Business By Jeff Erickson

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Home Quote Of The Day

“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

Aircraft Inspired Seating Into The Living Room

 Air-crafts are not typically designed for maximum comfort, more so to maximise capacity and squeeze as many passengers in as possible. Business class however is a different story, allowing those able to afford the prices to a more relaxing and comfortable experience.

Basing household furniture on airline seats may sound rather odd, since in your home you are looking for ultimate comfort. This seat comes in at �1,300, and we can't help but think that airline seats should be reserved for time spent in the air, and not time spent trying to relax in your own home. The chair does however look the part, and has a basic reclining mechanism extending a little further than the airborne counterpart.

Designed by Jeffret Bernett, the chair does look impressive in its own right, but we'd rather separate flight chairs from home seating. You don't want to be sitting watching TV and then expecting your house to take-off into the sky.

Home Quote Of The Day

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré

MTN To Debut Its $50 Branded Android Smartphone In Nigeria

 
One of Nigeria's leading telecommunications operator, MTN is set to debut its first branded Android smartphone – Sm@rt Mini S620 — which runs Android 4.2 OS and powered by a 1Ghz processor,  The dual-SIM device would spot a 3.5-inch screen, 4GB internal memory, 512RAM, microSD expandable up to 32GB and 1,300mAH battery.
The Sm@rt Mini S620 would also come with a front and rear camera, although details on its spec are not yet confirmed. The device also features support for HSPA+/WiFi/Bluetooth/USB functionality with FM Radio support and apps like BBM come pre-installed. It is unclear if MTN would also provide support for WhatsApp and other OTT services. The smartphone is expected to launch this July and would be sold for about N8,000 (about $50).

Home Quote Of The Day

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. 
― Maya Angelou

Google To Shut Down Failing Social Network

(Stephen Lam/Reuters)

Google will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut, which was launched 10 years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Web’s most popular businesses.

Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is widely used in Brazil and India but hasn’t caught on more broadly, on Sept. 30, to focus on its other social networking initiatives.

The company declined to say how many users Orkut has.

“Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut’s growth, we’ve decided to bid Orkut farewell,” Google said in a post on the Orkut blog Monday.

Orkut was launched early in 2004, the same year that Facebook, now the world’s No. 1 social network with 1.28 billion users, was founded.

The service’s shutdown comes as Google’s social networking plans remain in question. In April, Vic Gundotra, the head of Google’s social networking services, left the company.

Gundotra oversaw the 2011 launch of Google+, a social networking service similar to Facebook. Gundotra said in October that 300 million people visit the Google+ webpage every month.

Google has increasingly sought to position Google+ less as a social networking “stream” that competes with Facebook, and more as a means of establishing a unified “user identity” system to improve Google’s various Web properties. Last year, for example, Google began requiring users of its YouTube site to sign in with their Google+ identities before posting comments about videos.

The company said it would preserve an archive of all Orkut “communities” that will be available from Sept. 30.

“If you don’t want your posts or name to be included in the community archive, you can remove Orkut permanently from your Google account,” Google said.

 by Bernadette Baum.