Vunderkind
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..Snippets of interesting stuff for your consumption this weekend:
Airtel has launched an app that allows users watch their favorite TV programs even while mobile.
The Pocket TV’ will have more than 150 live channels with an impressive array of video content – all at an (hopefully) affordable price.
The Airtel Digital TV app is currently available for Android devices alone with version 2.1 upwards. We hear it will be available for iOS and other platforms soon.
WhatsApp might be a $19 billion investment, but that doesn’t mean it is healthy for everyone. We read that a lady got hospitalized for ‘excessive typing’ on her WhatsApp application. The woman was 27 weeks pregnant and developed severe pain in her wrists. Hah.
The diagnosis is called bilateral extensor pollicis longus tendinitis of the thumb, but don’t worry; it has a cooler nickname: WhatsAppitis.
So, give it a rest, will you? Drop that device for a few hours and go smell the roses.
Remember Supa Strikas? Ah, yes. I was a kid when that one came out. I remember the days when I used to starve so I could by each issue chronicling the life of Shegs. Good times, really.
Well, since that time, Supa Strikas has become an animated series – South Africa’s first animated series, if you care to know – and is now aired on France TV!
Yo, check this out: Supa Strikas has risen to become the number one kids' series in South Africa and on Israel’s Zoom channel. It’s not doing badly on Disney Italy either: it is on the number 2 position.
Way to go, yeah?
My Twitter has been agog for a while now about the slanted emojis on the iPhone, and it seems Apple has decided to listen to vox populi. Apple is making plans to bring out a new list of emoji characters. These characters will have, apart from the Caucasian and Asian characters we have grown accustomed to, black characters and characters from other ethnic groups.
I want a Mahatma emoji, in case anyone is listening so I can finally pull that knock-knock joke:
[Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Mahatma
Mahatma who?
Mahatma coat, please. I’m heading out.]
Okay, you remember Turkey’s determination to ban Twitter? The big question is WHY? Why would anyone want to ban something as awesome as Twitter? And he made a move to shut out YouTube as well. Creepy, eh? What next, Facebook?
BBC says the good Prime Minister Erdogan’s ‘beef’ with social media began in May last year when a Twitter protest began to save Gezi Park of Istanbul from demolition. Apparently, the protest gained solidarity across the country, and this pissed the Prime Minister off.
In December last year, some anonymous folks posted taped phone calls which appeared to expose the corruption amongst Erdogan and his allies.
In other words, Twitter (and social media generally) is becoming a nuisance for the PM.
Porn lovers will like to read this one: the UK has called for an enforcement on porn sites, to ensure that people who access these sites are in fact old enough to view such content.
Some suggested measures to ensure that porn sites get serious with their enforcement include the denial of debit and credit payment processing for sites that treat the matter trivially.
Some parties feel it’s a ‘worthless gesture’ though.