Now You Can Buy HP EliteBook Notebooks In Nigeria. But It Is Not Small Change

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April 26, 2011

It seems that HP is working hard to get more market share in Nigeria. It just launched three series of its Elitebook notebooks in Nigeria. The cost of this machine makes it purely for business users, as they rightfully noted. At excess of N100,000, it is expensive for average home user.

Overview

Corporate Elite. For mobile professionals who need manageability, security, upgradeable wireless and enhanced system and graphics performance in a business-rugged notebook with a 14.0-inch diagonal display.

Features

Durable design:

•	The HP EliteBook 8440p Notebook PC features a brushed-aluminum platinum finish and business-rugged construction to protect your notebook on the go. A magnesium/aluminum display enclosure and magnesium alloy chassis provides increased durability.

Industry-leading battery life:

•	Get up to 24 hours of battery life on a properly configured HP EliteBook 8440p with Ultra Capacity Battery.

•	From increased battery lifespan to extended computing time, the HP EliteBook 8440p offers optional battery life solutions to meet your needs, including the HP Long Life Battery, the HP Ultra-Capacity Battery or the HP Extended Life Battery.

Graphics choice:

•	Choice of UMA or discrete graphics deliver responsive performance and rich media capabilities.

Easy to use:

•	HP Power Assistant lets you take control of your notebook PCs reported power consumption! This tool allows you to conserve power, stretch battery run-time, accurately monitor your reported power needs and report workforce power consumption.

•	Whether you’re across the street or across the country, HP’s integrated wireless technologies have got you covered. Experience faster connections in more places than ever before and get more done with HP Mobile Broadband powered by Gobi.

•	Our notebooks are designed to help boost your productivity. For example, use HP QuickLook 3 to access e-mail and contact information in seconds without booting up, and HP QuickWeb to access the web in seconds even if your notebook is turned off.

NECA and ITF – Time To Step Us This Game. Train Them For Jobs of The Future

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April 26, 2011

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The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association ( NECA) and the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), said 223 people have been trained in welding, fitting, mechanics under their skill acquisition project in the last six months. We must congratulate ITF and NECA, but want to challenge them to revisit their programs. You cannot continue to train these kids in the jobs of the 20th century. We looked at the 2011 training schedule for ITF and it looked like what one could expect in 1980. The emerging training in Nigeria now – mobile apps development is not included. Also, they should include computer aided design (CAD) tools and automation as well as embedded systems in order to prepare these students for the jobs of the future.

While we understand the need of mechanics, fitters, welders, ITF must step up and start offering services in emerging technologies as those will drive economic prosperity in this century.

Averting The Power Shutdown In Nigeria – Why PHCN Must Be Taken Seriously

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April 26, 2011

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It is very interesting to know why Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) is issuing imminent warming to government. They have this plan of shutting down power in the country if government continues with planned privatization of the comatose institution, without first addressing labor related grievances.

Threatening the nation with economic paralyzes by shutting down power is something the unions must think twice. They have not earned the right for sympathies from average Nigerians. PHCN has failed many small businesses and families and threats of shutting down cannot cover their poor quality services in the sector over the years.

Sure, government has a duty to ensure that any grievance with the workers is cleared and government must not be boxed into agreeing into some ridiculous demands and not move on with privatizations if that will save the sector.

The ultimatum issued on April 15, 2011 to expire after 14 days must be taken seriously. Government must call for a dialogue but must bargain from the angle of strength and not weakness.

Tekedia understands that government has also failed in this sector and must not just blame PHCN. The Elumelu Report has not been implemented. All the people that mismanaged the funds that PHCN would have used to help the sector remain free – no major prosecution. Any plan to victimize poor Nigerians in PHCN without government owing to their own responsibilities must not happen.

Everyone is to be blamed in this business – government and PHCN. Nigerians as far as they are concerned know PHCN as government, so it is government that has failed. Government cannot work out of the agreement it reached with these workers and must sort them out before it moves on with the privatization. That is how justice is done. You cannot take away their jobs and not pay them compensations they have earned.

PHCN and government must demonstrate leadership here as the nation plans to revitalize this sector which has suffered neglects for decades. Good news for the dialogue which has commenced.

Join The Forum And Provide Insights For Things You Care About. And Get Rewarded

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April 26, 2011

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We invite you to join the conversation in Tekedia Innovation Forum . Prizes are as follows:

Highest Commenter Prize

Every month – the top poster will be announced and you will go to our Lagos Office and collect N10,000 cash. If not living in Lagos or Owerri, we pay into your account. Check our address at Fasmicro website (our parent company). We will contact you and also announce it (only your username) in the Forum. You need at least 30 comments to qualify every month.

Topic with Highest Comments Prize

The Topic needs at least 30 comments to qualify. We award to the person that started the topic. So, if you start a topic that brings better comments, you get rewarded. You will be paid the same N10,000 per month as described above.

The month of April 2011 is already gone, we are not going to award anything for it. Rather, we will aggregate April and May for these prizes. Subsequent months will run on themselves – the first day starts on the 1^st of every month (0.01am) to 11.59pm Nigerian time of the month. This promotion is ongoing.

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After The Talk – “How to defeat aging”. What You Need To Know About Living

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April 26, 2011

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Last year, I wrote Will Homo Sapiens Evolve to Bionics? originally for IEEE (that version requires subscription). It was very popular and was well received in the community. I have written in 2008 as a PhD student Neuromorphs: Replaceable human organs of the future? which shaped my research in creating a bio-processor. But in all these instances, nothing could compare to what I saw in Amsterdam last year on my way to the United Nations Summit in Freetown. TEDxAmsterdam had invited me – all expense paid. I met a man I had watched since I read a Time Magazine article about aging in 2006. Aubrey de Grey gave me few seconds in a dinner (the photo). Honestly, seeing him alone will convince you that man can live eternally young.

He spoke on aging and defeating it. Please enjoy his talk courtesy of TEDxAmsterdam

“Aging is very messy and chaotic and complicated and horrible,” says Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation. “It really is a case of prevention being better than cure.”

De Grey says the only reasons that the diseases of old age are the diseases of old age is because they are the end of processes that start when we are young. Two-thirds of the 150,000 people who die each day die of old age, when we take that definition to cover all age-related diseases. The SENS Foundation is interested in maintaining people’s health properly so that people are not just healthy for their age, they’re just healthy. One side effect of their work is long life, however de Grey emphasizes that the driving force behind his work is not to help people live forever, but to give them a longer period of life where they are healthy.. preventing diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

“Human bodies are basically just machines,” he says. “Let’s go in and regularly repair the damage so that we can postpone the time at which the damage is so extensive” that it ends life. Regularly scheduled maintenance works for cars, why not for humans? De Grey believes there’s a very good chance we’re only about 25 years away from adding 30 years of healthy life to the middle-aged. Sounds ok, no?

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