Does anyone have an idea about the number of vehicles on Nigerian roads. I will appreciate some level of objectivity.

gulfer: I am not a sales person for XNET but a customer. Their service, monitoring and recovery is quite commendable and they can only explain more to you if you call them. No harm in giving them a call;Call Jessica(07064039934) and if unconvinced then move on.

Thanks for your time @gulfer, will give her a call.

You did not mention anything about their vehicle recovery process. Are they the ones that would deploy policemen to the scene or it is the distraught customer that would have to do that?

gulfer: Xnetsecurity is the best and one of the pioneers. Reliable at all times; just this morning, one of our staff buses was carjacked at Badore in Ajah at about 0600hrs and i am happy to tell you that this has just been recovered in Ondo township with all the robbers arrested.Call Jessica on 07064039934 for details.

Yes, i have heard about XNET but i think their fees are a bit high. N84,000.00 i think, for the real time tracking.
Also, most of these companies claim the glory for car recoveries just because they were the ones that installed the tracker. Most times, i hear it is the car owners that actually mobilize the police to recover their vehicles.

Anyone, please!

There seem to be a lot of car tracking companies or individuals selling GPS devices and solutions in Nigeria. Can anyone recommend a good company that can deliver what it says.
I need the following features:
- The GPS should be affordable
- Online Real time tracking
- Detailed Maps. Very key criteria.
- Affordable monthly subscription

Any recommendations?

What is the unit price for Tramigo T22? N65,000 seems to be on the high side. Even non-Chinese brands do not cost more than N40,000.

How does the phone apps and google map work with tramigo? Do you input the gps coordinates that you receive via sms into these softwares?

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I finally took delivery of my spanking new Toshiba Thrive tablet a day ago and the first thing that hit me was, “Men, this thing is big!”. The thickness of the Thrive is, conservatively, about twice that of the iPad 2. And the 10.1 inch screen is noticeably larger than iPad’s 9.7 inch screen. At the moment, I am torn between using or dispensing with the case that I bought along with it. The case did not do too much justice to the aesthetics of the thrive, it makes it even much bulkier, with its width about that of a regular netbook. You may check my earlier comments on this tablet here.

I would not bother with a very detailed review of this “big boys’ toy” as it is awash on the internet already. However, I can not help but mention that the Thrive comes second to none in term of expandability, the reason for its bulkiness. It has a full HDMI port, SD slot, full USB and mini USB slots. Thankfully, there is a well stocked computer accessory store in my neighbourhood where I made a quick purchase of a USB flexible keyboard, USB optical mouse and a USB game pad. Since the thrive has only one full USB port, I also got a USB hub to connect my multiple USB peripherals. I am sure the wireless keyboard option too would work, but let’s just say I am watching my pennies at the moment, so I didn’t buy it. The keyboard and the mouse worked like a dream,simultaneously, via the USB hub. I was so emotional about this, so much that I felt like shedding a tear.*sniff*. However, I was not so lucky with the game pad. I read somewhere before now that the device is a little bit choosy about game pads. I have decided to take the thrive to the computer store to test out for a compatible brand before making a purchase. I heard the Xbox console works well on it though.

The key advantage here is that the Toshiba does not require any specialized or proprietary accessory to work with, your regular PC USB peripherals would do just fine! These peripherals should not be used too extensively except when the Thrive is connected to a power source as they can cause a drain on the battery.

I do not intend to “root” (“jailbreak” in Apple parlance) this device just yet, but that is the only way Android OS would recognize NTFS hard disk file system. However, I had no problem assessing my FAT formatted flash drive or the exFAT formatted external hard drive. exFAT is the preferred filesystem format for mobile devices and it supports hard disk size of up to 512 Terabytes. From experience, for drives with high capacity, I would advice the use of powered external drive against USB powered ones because the USB port my not have enough voltage output to power these category of drives.

Though I strongly wished the Thrive has a 3G modem in built, however, the speed of my Cobranet powered home WIFI provided even better browsing and download speeds for use on the tablet. I was able to make a number of device software updates quite smoothly, including that of the stock OS from Android honeycomb 3.1 to version 3.2.1 in a few minutes.

There is a “thriving” community on the net for the Toshiba Thrive, www.thriveforums.org. I am hoping the community would come up with a way to use regular USB modems on the thrive as it is one of the few USB peripherals not yet supported.

It is great having the feeling that I OWN this device, with no Apple-like restrictions. I can actually tinker with it to my heart’s content.

Over the next few weeks, I will be exchanging my views on this device and the Android OS in general.

Stay tuned.

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What apn settings do you use? I have over 40GB and i changed the apn to GLOSECURE with username and password GPRS. Still can not browse.

For N800k, what are my options in the Toyota, Nissan or Mazda range?

I have the following in mind;
Nissan Maxima 1997
Mazda 626 1998

Facebook is really being paranoid,i read that import tools from facebook have been blocked

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Facebook is large, going on 750 Million users. Remember too that Yahoo was large, almost every internet user then was on yahoo, whether email, chat, etc. Nothing is static. The truth is, facebook is very jittery and they should be. Not because they would go out of business but because their market share and total dominance would be undermined. Anyone interested in a good reading can get more info here; http://artwales.biz/google-vs-facebook/

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Apple has expanded the Mac and iOS App Stores to reach another 33 countries, most of them in the Caribbean region, along with a few in Africa, the Mediterranean region and elsewhere. In addition to helping expand iOS device and Mac sales in those regions, the move will also make the iCloud service available to those countries when the service is rolled out this fall.


In the Caribbean region, the App Stores are now open in Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname , Turks and Caicos Islands, and Trinidad and Togabo. In addition, Algeria, Angola, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania have been added in Africa, while Bahrain, Oman and Yemen have been added in the Middle East. The European and Eurasian region has picked up Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cyprus, and Iceland. Asian and southeast Asian countries Uzbekistan and Brunei have been included, along with the South American nation of Bolivia.

Existing Mac and iOS App Store developers who wish to start selling products to these new markets can simply add them to their available territories through their iTunes Connect accounts.

With this latest expansion, App Store apps are now available for purchase in about 123 nations. Apple still has some room left to expand, with several African, Middle Eastern, and South Pacific nations remaining unrepresented on the App Store.

I was able to confirm that Nigeria has indeed been listed, which hitherto, was not the case. However, one can only hope that there would not be any for of discrimination to our credit cards or extreme market segmentation as is currently available whereby a sizable number of quality apps are only available in the US app store.

I have not been able to make purchases from the Nigerian app store yet as I am not yet sure of what services i may lose if i switch my ID from the US app store where it is currently registered.

link : http://artwales.biz/apple-app-store-now-available-in-nigeria/

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Google has unveiled its new social networking tool Google Plus (Google+) to beat its close rival Facebook. With the Google+ project, the search engine giant is planning to grab the search engine market, which is controlled by Facebook with nearly 700 million users.

Even Though the Google Plus project is in limited field trial, quite a number of users have been able to experience the features of the new Google+ social network. In our search over the Internet, we have noticed mixed reviews from various technology blogs and website editors who tested the Google+ platform. Some of them gave 100 percent marks for Google+, meanwhile some others reported it as a “complicated” platform.

As of today, Google seems to have stopped honouring any new invites to test the Google+ platform but for those that are still keen on testing the platform, all hope is not lost.

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The Phoneitipad app is quite nice, i wrote a short review here; http://artwales.biz/?p=12908

Of course, most would find the size of the ipad an issue for making calls but nevertheless, it's really nice to know that i have an "all-in-all" device with me always.

There is a hands on review here http://artwales.biz/?p=12908