Mkpuruokwu Igbo: Now Igbo English – Online Translator Arrives

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October 3, 2011

We just got a heads-up that a new website is built that can translate Igbo to English and vice versa. The site name is Mkpuruokwu Igbo which means alphabets of Igbo or loosely basic components of Igbo language. In a post on the website, they are building it based on Michael J.C. Echuruo’s excellent Igbo-English Dictionary.

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aka. aba ezi

n

[LH HH]

road crossing; intersection. var. agba üzö aba iceku n [LL-LHH] leguminous tree, used as a fallow crop; (possibly) velvet tamarind (Dialum guineensë).

abaïnya

n

[LL HL]

first hair on baby’s head; baby hair. var. aba nya; abönfi; apönfï.

abaömi

n

[LLHH]

cheek;jaw. var. agbanti; agba önü.

abaca

n

[HHH]

day-old young chick; grower chick; sometimes called “uriöm” or “üyöm”.

abaca

n

[LLL]

‘sliced, dried cassava flak.es; tapioca flakes; 2salad made from tapioca: flakes, var. abaja. *See “acfca” = wafere.

abada

n

[LLH]

wax printed cloth; wax priöt; printed cloth.

abadaba

adj

[HHHH]

broad; flat or wide.

abadaba

n

[LLLL]

narrow raffia-and-cotton cloth, the material from which men’s traditional pants or loin cloths were made.

abaja

n

[LLL]

sliced cassava; tapioca flakes. var. abaca.

abaje

n

[HHH]

(loan(?)) barrel.

abaka

n

[LLH]

type of fish.

abakpa

n

[LLL]

(loan(?)) market-town; originally name for section of Igbo town settled by Hausa traders and cattlemen; now found as specific place name for urban areas no longer so-settled – Abakpa-Nike = the Hausa quarters at Nike (near Emigu).

Tablets Battle Notebooks For Consumer Mind Share – And Gaining Share

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September 30, 2011

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hanks to its strong brand image as well as astute product and price positioning, Apple’s iPad has enjoyed overwhelming success. As a result, the global media tablet market has exceeded growth expectations since tablets were released to the market at the beginning of the second quarter of 2010, reports IHS iSuppli.

IHS predicts global media tablet shipments will reach 60 million units in 2011, up 245.9 percent from 17.4 million in 2010. Shipments are expected to increase to 275.3 million in 2015.

“Following the launch of Apple’s iPad and other high-profile devices, consumers have been bombarded with media tablet advertising and press coverage,” Wilkins noted. “And with the media tablet portrayed as providing the same capabilities as the notebook PC, consumers are considering media tablets to be an alternative to notebooks. This has caused notebook sales growth to slow down compared to past years.”

Nowhere has the impact of tablets on notebooks been more apparent than in the once-hot netbook segment. After enjoying double-digit growth from 2008 through 2010, netbook shipments are set to decline to 21.5 million units in 2011, down 33.2 percent from 32 million in 2010. Shipments are expected to continue to decrease during the coming years and will dwindle to 13.5 million units in 2015.

“A similar user experience to that of the netbook is offered by the media tablet, with both being highly portable platforms allowing convenient consumption of multimedia content, whether offline or online,” Wilkins noted. “Thus, the media tablet is attracting purchases from consumers who otherwise might buy notebooks.”

Ironically, the notebook market is expected to find some solace from the onslaught of media tablets in an unlikely place: the PC tablet. PC tablets are slate or convertible/hybrid tablets that incorporate a full PC operating system such as Windows 7 or Linux.

Unlike the great success of the media tablet, the PC tablet to date has only gained limited penetration into the mainstream business segment as an alternative to the notebook PC, along with small success in vertical markets including medical, logistics and education.

Tablets Battle Notebooks For Consumer Mind Share – And Gaining Share

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Tekedia Editors

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September 30, 2011

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Thanks to its strong brand image as well as astute product and price positioning, Apple’s iPad has enjoyed overwhelming success. As a result, the global media tablet market has exceeded growth expectations since tablets were released to the market at the beginning of the second quarter of 2010, reports IHS iSuppli.

IHS predicts global media tablet shipments will reach 60 million units in 2011, up 245.9 percent from 17.4 million in 2010. Shipments are expected to increase to 275.3 million in 2015.

“Following the launch of Apple’s iPad and other high-profile devices, consumers have been bombarded with media tablet advertising and press coverage,” Wilkins noted. “And with the media tablet portrayed as providing the same capabilities as the notebook PC, consumers are considering media tablets to be an alternative to notebooks. This has caused notebook sales growth to slow down compared to past years.”

Nowhere has the impact of tablets on notebooks been more apparent than in the once-hot netbook segment. After enjoying double-digit growth from 2008 through 2010, netbook shipments are set to decline to 21.5 million units in 2011, down 33.2 percent from 32 million in 2010. Shipments are expected to continue to decrease during the coming years and will dwindle to 13.5 million units in 2015.

“A similar user experience to that of the netbook is offered by the media tablet, with both being highly portable platforms allowing convenient consumption of multimedia content, whether offline or online,” Wilkins noted. “Thus, the media tablet is attracting purchases from consumers who otherwise might buy notebooks.”

Ironically, the notebook market is expected to find some solace from the onslaught of media tablets in an unlikely place: the PC tablet. PC tablets are slate or convertible/hybrid tablets that incorporate a full PC operating system such as Windows 7 or Linux.

Unlike the great success of the media tablet, the PC tablet to date has only gained limited penetration into the mainstream business segment as an alternative to the notebook PC, along with small success in vertical markets including medical, logistics and education

Fasmicro Unveils $10,000 Multi-Project Chip Europractice Services For African Institutions

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September 26, 2011

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If you an African institution, Fasmicro is available to help you setup a world class microelectronics chip design lab. We will be using the Cadence CAD platform under the Europractice. The fee is $10,000 per school site. This excludes cost of your hardware. We will train your students and staff on the use of Cadence and all the processes involved in chip design from schematic entry, layout, extraction and tapeout, and finally the testing of the chip when fabricated. To learn more about Europractice and multi-project chip services, click here.

EUROPRACTICE is a quality brand name for European service-type projects in the Microelectronics, Microsystems and Photonics fields. The EUROPRACTICE brand name covers a wide range of FP6 and FP7 projects.

The following is our timetable for major African markets:

Nigeria – anytime

Ghana – January 2012

Kenya – February 2012

South Africa – March 2012

We ask schools and companies that want to configure and setup Europractice services and master Cadence design to contact usa@fasmicro.com. Upon setup, your team will be required to spend time with us to get more exposure in CAD usage. Trainings will be done via Fasmicro U.S. services.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company. For years it had been the largest company in the EDA industry producing software for designing chips and printed circuit boards.

Fasmicro is a leading African microelectronics and embedded systems design company with headquarters in Nigeria and business operations in UK and USA.

Online Micro-Electioneering: How Politicians Mine Your Facebook Activities

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September 26, 2011

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These days politicians, of course Western politicians, are doing online micro-election campaigning. They pick all the activities you have on your profile – the posts, the likes , etc- and based on that will develop a customized ad that will appeal to your emotion. The end goal is to make you LIKE them and possibly connect with their campaigns.

They begin by understanding what you like best and systematically they peel the wall and connect with you. When you post on you dislike on tax, you will be sure to get a “customized” ad that will tell you how the politician shares your frustration with high taxes.

Facebook Washington DC office focuses on providing tools to politicians to help them connect with people in their networks. With the plugin, politicians can target people efficiently like has never happened. This is a new domain for social media consulting because most times people do not turn off these politicians because they come through a point they know you want. You like higher taxes, they pretend they offer a solution in that. You hate green house emission, they link to their statements supporting your view. It is about mining your data and using that to construct an ad that will appeal to you.

Online micro-electioneering is going to become a growth area in coming months as the U.S. 2012 election heats up. So the politicians can make thousands of ads which are constantly tuned to particular and specific Facebook users. Facebook provides them data that makes the ads intuitive and relevant. Ads in Facebook is relatively cheaper, about 40c per click, and they can launch many at a time and quickly know the particular ad that people are responding to best. The idea is to figure out the one that drives higher response.

In platforms like FarmVille, politicians are also promoting themselves which enable people to visit friend’s farms to campaign. Expect to see more in Zynga and other popular platforms in Facebook and possibly MySpace. Notice that it is not just the Like they want, they also like your purse and if you connect, be ready to open your wallet for the politicians.

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