WAREMBO MISS TANZANIA WATEMBELEA HIFADHI YA TAIFA MIKUMI

Warembo 30 wanaoshiriki shindano la Redd’s Miss Tanzania 2014 jana walitembelea hifadhi ya taifa ya Mikumi mkoani Morogoro kujionea vivutio mbalimbali vya utalii viliovyopo katika hifadhi hiyo ambapo waliweza kujionea wanyama wa aina mbalimbali wakiwepo, Tembo, Twiga, Swala, Viboko na Simba.

 Kaimu Mhifadhi Utalii wa Hifadhi ya Taifa Mikumi, Apaikunda Mungure akigawa vipeperushi kwa warembo.

Warembo walibahatika kuwaona Simba zaidi ya Saba wakiwamepumzika chini ya mti.

 Warembo wa Redd’s Miss Tanzania wakiongozwa na Matron wao, Gladness Chuwa mbugani Mikumi.

Warembo wakipiga picha na watalii waliowakuta Mikumi.

 Punda milia nao walionekana kwa wingi.

 Wakisikiliza maelezo juu ya Viboko kutoka kwa Benina Mwananzila.

 Warembo wakipata maelezo katika kituo cha Mbuyu

Muongoza watalii Ibrahim Kassim akitoa maelezo kwa washiriki wa shindano la Redd’s Miss Tanzania 2014.

 Mrembo akitazamana na ngedere

 Warembo wakitembelea lodge ya Hifadhi hiyo ya Mikumi.

 Tembo nao walikuwepo.

PHOTO – Davido Buys a Private Jet at 21

If there’s one guy who does not require to work, it has to be Davido. His father, Chief Adeleke, is a Nigerian Billionaire businessman.

Davido could have easily taken up the family business but he chose to follow his talent and passion. He is Africa’s biggest artist at the moment with his hits receiving repeated plays across radio stations in the continent.

At 21 years, he couldn’t wish for a better life.

Just recently, he posted on his Instagram page first photos of his private jet.

Apple Sells 4 Million iPhone 6 in Just 24 Hours

Apple Inc said many customers will need to wait until next month for their new iPhones after a record 4 million first-day pre-orders were logged, double the number for the iPhone 5 two years ago.

The company said demand had outstripped supply of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which feature larger screens and longer battery life. Deliveries of pre-orders will begin on Friday and will continue through October.

Bumper first-day pre-orders point to first-weekend sales of up to 10 million units, analysts estimated.

“Assuming preorders are similar to the 40 percent of first weekend sales for the iPhone 5, this would imply iPhone 6/6Plus first weekend sales could be around 10 million,” Wells Fargo Securities analysts wrote in a note.

About 2 million pre-orders were received for the iPhone 5 in the first 24 hours after it went on sale in September 2012. Apple sold 5 million of these phones in the first weekend. Apple sold 9 million iPhone 5Ss and 5Cs, which were launched last year, in the first three days in stores. The company did not reveal pre-order numbers for these phones.

Raymond James analysts said they expect sales of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to top 9 million in the first weekend. “Apple will be selling every iPhone it can make, at least through October. Because of this, the first weekend sales are typically more indicative of supply than demand,” they said.

The company routinely grapples with iPhone supply constraints, particularly in years that involve a smartphone re-design. Apple’s website showed last week that the larger 5.5-inch “Plus” models displayed a wait time of up to a month. The 4.7-inch version was available for delivery on Sept. 19.

Janney Capital Markets analysts said the large number of pre-orders was due to “pent-up demand” for bigger iPhone screens. The brokerage raised its sales estimate for the latest iPhones to 37.4 million units for the current quarter and 60 million for the quarter ended December.

“We believe significant demand will even spill into the March and June quarters given supply and the timing of shipments in China,” Barclays analysts wrote in a note. The company said the new iPhone models will be available to customers in its stores in the United States, Canada, Australia and some other countries on Friday morning.

AT&T Inc, Sprint Corp, T-Mobile US Inc, Verizon Wireless and some Apple authorised resellers will also start selling the phones on Friday. The phones will come equipped with Apple’s new payments service, “Apple Pay”, which launches in the United States next month and allows users to pay for items in stores with their phones.

Apple’s shares were up less than 1 percent at $102.92 Monday afternoon.

- Reuters

At 512 GB, SanDisk Makes The Worlds Largest SD Card by Capacity

Memory specialist SanDisk has created an SD card with 512 gigabytes (GB) of storage space – the highest capacity ever released.

The card, which is the size of a postage stamp, will go on sale for $800 (£490).

The launch comes a decade after the firm released a 512-megabyte (MB) SD card with one-thousandth of the space.

Experts believe SD cards could eventually hold up to 2 terabytes (TB) of data, about 2,000GB.

The new card is aimed at film-makers shooting in the high-quality 4K format.

The 4K format – which is four times the resolution of HD – requires large file storage. Depending on compression, a single minute of 4K shooting will typically take around 5GB of storage space.

“4K Ultra HD is an example of a technology that is pushing us to develop new storage solutions capable of handling massive file sizes,” said Dinesh Bahal, vice-president of product marketing at SanDisk.

The SD card format is one of the most widely used standards of flash storage, popular with digital cameras, camcorders and other mobile devices.

While camera types, resolutions and settings vary – a 512GB card could potentially hold around 30 hours of HD video.

Cloud worries

John Delaney, a senior mobile analyst from IDC, said innovation in physical storage was critical to the future of our devices – even if a lot of people are turning to cloud storage instead.

“The thing that is driving cloud storage is multiple devices usage – which solves the, ‘Where’s my stuff?’ problem: if you use cloud storage for everything, whatever device you have with you can be used to access your content.”

But he added: “So far there’s still a strong preference for local storage.

“People just feel more in control and more able to rely on being able to access the content when they literally know where it is.

“Storing in the cloud means you literally don’t know where it is.”

Mr Delaney added that recent high-profile security issues around cloud storage – such as the celebrity picture leak last week – would play on the minds of consumers.

- BBC

Chinese City Launches Special Lane for Cellphone Addicts

If you’re tired of walking behind someone who’s trudging along as they text, has this Chinese city got the sidewalk for you.

Last week, the city of Chongqing unveiled a lane specially designated for people who want to walk as they use their cellphones. “Cellphones, walk in this lane at your own risk” is printed in the lane in white lettering. The adjoining lane reads “No cellphones.”

On Monday, Weibo users reacted to the news with a mixture of amusement and scorn. “It’s such a lazy design. Shouldn’t the cellphone lane be placed [farther from the road]? It is not practical at all,” wrote one user.

Another dismissed the innovation, writing, “It’s just another imitation of foreign inventions,” the user wrote, referring to a similar experiment launched in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. “Besides, it seems only to be serving as a tourist attraction,” the user wrote of the road, which is located in a Chongqing tourist area called “Foreign Street Park.”

Still another wondered whether the road would make anything safer. “Is the goal here to encourage still more people to use their cellphones while walking?”

– Ma Si

How The Alphabet is Taught To Kids Nowadays… Yes, A is Still for Apple

Among the first things that a child learns is A for Apple, B for Boy and C for Cat.

This has remained so for many years, probably because of the simplicity of those words. Technology is however threatening to change all that.