Archive for 'Sci-Tech'
As Facebook grows, millions say ‘no, thanks’
More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least once a month, but millions more are Facebook holdouts. They say they don’t want Facebook. They insist they don’t need Facebook. They say they’re [...]
Apple is to build thinnest iPhone ever this year.
Apple is on a mission to build the thinnest iPhone yet, and the company may break the 8-millimeter mark when it launches its next iPhone later this year according to fox news. Reports surfaced last week [...]
Men set to live as long as women.
The gap between male and female life expectancy is closing and men could catch up by 2030, according to an adviser for the Office for National Statistics. Prof Mayhew, a professor of statistics at Cass Business [...]
Facebook buys AOL patents worth $550M from Microsoft.
Facebook is paying Microsoft $550 million in cash for a chunk of the patent portfolio that Microsoft recently acquired from AOL. This is all part of Facebook’s effort to fatten up its patent war chest as [...]
62% of Men and 37% of Women over 65 years are sexually active, study shows.
A study based on the National Health and Sexuality Survey, involving nearly 2000 people, describes the sexual practices of senior citizens in Spain. The most common are kisses, caresses and vaginal penetration. The main causes of [...]
Text messaging in class may affect college students’ learning.
College students who frequently text messages during class have difficulty staying attentive to classroom lectures and consequently risk having poor learning outcomes, finds a new study reveals. According to Fang-Yi Flora Wei, Ph.D., assistant professor of [...]
Uganda to host the Global Digital Migration meeting.
Uganda is hosting a high level meeting and frequency coordination meeting on transition to digital television and digital dividend that will be held from April 16-19, 2012 at the Serena Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. The twin [...]
Saudi Prince Invests $300 Million in Twitter
Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has taken a $300 million stake in the social media start-up Twitter, adding an emerging brand name to an international investment portfolio that largely includes established giants like Apple, [...]
Steve Jobs’ Sister Revealed His last Words
Steve Jobs’ sister has revealed her brother’s last moments and the enigmatic words he uttered before he died. In a touching eulogy at his memorial service on October 16, Mona Simpson described how the Apple founder [...]
Uganda To Test Its First Electric Car
Uganda’s Makerere University students will Tuesday afternoon test drive their first electric car that has been three years in the making. The Kiira EV made by the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology students is [...]
Uganda receives sh248b World Bank loan for poverty reduction.
Ugandan economy is likely to take a high jump from a remarkable walkin
Government accused of neglecting nodding disease victims.
Nodding Disease - cause is malnutrition: Lately, while sharing with a
Police launches mobile command vehicles to beef up security.
Just like many other inquires and investigations that are yet to made
Lukwago warned.
mr luyiga welaga nnyo tolowoza nti gwosinga lukwago amateka...wakayiga
Uganda lacks entrepreneurship skills- Museveni.
I told the President, Museveni, earlier on but he shrugged off. Check