Poor bounce rates on a website is one of the easiest ways to bleed pageviews and while sometimes you can’t help it when users leave your site after a quick read there are some “best practices” you can implement in your writing and throughout your sites structure to ensure your bounce rate doesn’t reach astronomical…

Many of you have had reasons to upgrade your Blackberry device OS or restore to factory settings. No doubt, by doing this it may solve your blackberry's issue, but of course, you will lose all your data. Even though you can use the Backup and Restore function of your Desktop Manager (provided you have the…

Research In Motion (RIM) announced recently that its worst BlackBerry service outage in company history is now over. In light of this event, we have thrown together a quick timeline of the worst BlackBerry outages in recent times with a quick breakdown of each. In chronological order, starting in the spring of 2007.... 1) April…

Lately, i have written very little about Apple products and the developments in the company; IOS 5, iPhone 4s and all. It is intentional. Let's just say my romance with Apple products died with Steve Jobs. Not that either events had anything to do with the other though, however I am about moving on. I…

At least half of the people that click on this post would expect to find some hacking tips on how to browse the internet for free. Sorry, no hacking tips here. However, for those that subscribe to Globacom's cheaper internet bundles, ever tried dialling 124 to know if you are a beneficiary of Glo's free…

As a very late adopter of RIM's Blackberry services, I was just settling down to get high on the proverbial "Crackberry". Alas, this is not going to be and already, buyer's remorse is already setting in. It started out with the usual delay in getting the BIS service enabled on my ergonomically friendly albeit cheap…

Blackberry secret codes for hidden menus work a bit differently to all other manufacturers since you don't use the *#code# sequence but rather activate most of the codes by holding the ALT key. As always it is right to point out that these are not some magic Blackberry hacks just the codes to access the…

The Passing away of former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, on October 5, 2011 came as a shock to many. He passed away too young and undoubtedly with plenty of innovative ideas. Like they say, "The Good Die Young". Jobs' imprint and influence on Apple will remain for years. However, his management team can no longer…

India has launched what it says is the world's cheapest touch-screen tablet computer, priced at just NGN 6,000 ($35). Costing a fraction of Apple's iPad, the subsidised Aakash is aimed at students. It supports web browsing and video conferencing, has a three-hour battery life and two USB ports, but questions remain over how it will…

The use of "www" in website addressing will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain, that is why you usually see ads that just promote something like DNW.com instead of www.DNW.com. People know…

There are as many different types of bloggers as there are faces. But there’s something that every single one of them has in common: they all started with a hope, an excitement, a feeling that what they were beginning could actually be something. And if they could just do it the way they could feel…

The following article was published in Gizmodo and, expectedly, my response to it is very predictable. Why would i want to settle for less? It is quite obvious to many that the iPad 2 that the Kindle Fire is being compared to is still lacking in features. Let's face it, what everyone (unconsciously) hopes for…