Descasio is one of the few cloud computing solutions providers in Nigeria. They have become the  bridge between cloud based solutions and legacy On-Premise solutions. They harness cloud-computing technologies by helping organizations of all sizes dramatically improve employee productivity and focus on key business operations by removing the need for expertise and cost of expensive IT Infrastructure and personnel.

They work in the following areas: Applications, Email, and Document management which are delivered as pay as you use services, so there are no hardware to procure, no large, up-front license fees, and no complex set-ups.

They also help firms Gone Google which means they move many of their business processes to Google tools and technologies, especially those that can be done in the cloud.

The two tech darlings are growing into fierce competitors with every new chapter in their quests for consumer domination. The latest page of this low-key yet high-stakes saga finds Google potentially going after Amazon’s Prime loyalty shopping program. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Google is in talks with major retailers to launch a service where shoppers would pay a flat annual fee in exchange for subsidized shipping. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because Amazon has been perfecting that model for years.

Amazon Prime allows active online shoppers to pay $79 a year in exchange for free two-day shipping of any Amazon-warehoused merchandise. Hurried buyers can pay $3.99 for overnight deliveries. The leading Web-based retailer has never divulged the exact number of Prime members on its rolls, but it has referred to them in the “millions” earlier this year.

How can Google pull this off without centralized warehouses? Will the search engine titan face conflicts of interest by having a more direct hand in the fortunes of some of its advertisers? Why go after a model that Amazon seems to have all but cornered? Let’s answer the last question first. Amazon Prime shoppers are a loyal lot. When there’s something they need to buy, they go directly to Amazon.com’s homepage.

Why not? If Amazon or one of its merchant partners is selling it through one of its fulfillment warehouses, they’re already paying for unlimited access to free two-day shipping.

See the problem? Amazon Prime shoppers are no longer leaning on Google’s search engine — more specifically, its Google Product Search comparison shopping engine — to scour cyberspace for better deals. This is why you see giant corporations making silent alliances, much like we saw in the stripe merchant services a few years back. Similar attitudes are rising within google, anything that circumvents Google.com as an Internet launching pad is a threat.

Yes, you may be surprised what we are up to here. But we mean business. The optimism or bubble of optimism in Silicon Valley cannot be explained in words. It is real and it is better you experience it. Do you know that Mark Pincus, the Founder of Zynga, is now a billionaire?  Yes, the guy has made it. And many of them are on the way to the money farm  while  the whole world is messed up.

That brings us to one question: if the guys in Silicon Valley are enjoying a world that is only available to them, very soon, they can miss that intuition to understand what the “other” world needs. Facebook Founder only eats cow he kills himself. His bush meat must be killed by Mark Zuckerberg.  In a world where property prices are rising, the unemployment is very very low, how can they understand what we need? Simply, Silicon Valley is in another world.

But remember there is a high competitive war in Silicon Valley. It is the typical Tech War that four companies are fighting. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are fighting these wars and they are all fighting to win. Yahoo which is leaderless right now is not part of this war. Microsoft is somehow connected but in the grand scheme of things, it is not at the nucleus of this war. These are some of the signs of the war – they are throwing bullet of ideas, court suits, etc:

-Apple sues Motorola Mobility

-Google introduces Facebook killer, Google Plus

-Facebook copies the good stuffs in Google Plus

-Spotify finds home in Facebook (hu Apple iTunes)

-Goggle gets into hardware via Motorola Mobility

-Amazon launches a really good Android Apps Store. Soon, Android Market will close and Amazon one will rule

-Google unveils Google Music

-Amazon launches Amazon Cloud Player

• Apple releases Newstand (hey Kindle)

-Amazon unveils Android Fire

We are waiting to see how it will affect us, because as our elders say, when two elephants fight, the grasses suffer.

“Access to information is a basic human right,” said former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, according to the World Bank Institute, at a conference on the subject last year in Accra, Ghana.   Information is also power, and more and more organizations are recognizing that it will play an essential role in Africa’s future. Having access to information enables people to do things like take care of their health, understand their rights, start businesses, and participate in political processes.

When it comes to information access, most of the discussions are about the delivery systems such as mobile phones, which in many parts of Africa are the computing devices of choice. Obviously, getting information into people’s hands is critical. But what good is it if they cannot understand that information once they receive it? Africa is home to more than 2,000 different languages spread across six major language families – Nigeria alone has more than 500 tongues spoken within its borders.  Some of them – such as Amharic, Berber, Hausa, Igbo, Oromo, Swahili, and Yoruba – are used by tens of millions of people.

Because of its incredible linguistic diversity, Africa presents numerous challenges when it comes to translation. However, multilingualism is extremely common among Africans, which means that there are large numbers of individuals who could potentially, and with the right professional training, provide translation services. Also, as our research shows, the markets for translation and interpreting in Africa have been growing steadily in recent years, fueled by factors such as global trade and international migration. This has led to a proliferation of language service providers spread across the continent. However, even these positive developments cannot begin to address the need for translated information.

It’s been said that until Africa prospers, the world as a whole cannot prosper. Translation plays an important part in giving people the information that will allow them to prosper in many aspects of life. For this reason, Common Sense Advisory is conducting a new study on translation in Africa on behalf of Translators without Borders. Today we launched a survey for translators of African languages in order to collect more information about the issues they face and to learn more about their views on access to information. We’re inviting all individuals who translate into and out of African languages – whether on a volunteer or professional basis – to participate. Please encourage all translators for African languages in your network or contact database to take the survey.  To read a joint press release about the project from Common Sense Advisory and Translators without Borders, click here.

from  Nataly Kelly, Common Sense Advisory.