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Nokia Accepting Apps In Its “Create for Millions Contest” – One Million Euros On Play

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Submit your best Series 40 Java or web apps in Nokia’s ‘Create for Millions’ contest to win your share of cash and prizes, worth 1 million euros.

 

Reflecting Nokia’s strategy to deliver mobile phones and services for the next billion, there will also be a tremendous need to offer outstanding apps for use on those devices. This includes apps for Series 40 phones that inform, educate, entertain, and bring people closer together. Nokia’s Series 40 phones have experienced more than 35 per cent growth in download volumes in the past two months, making up about a quarter of the total downloads from Nokia’s Ovi Store. Now is your chance to make the most of this growing opportunity.

 

Enter the Create for Millions contest

 

The Three Pillars Of Nokia Strategy 2011 – Smartphones, The Next Billion, And Future Disruptions

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Nokia Strategy 2011 consists of three pillars:

  • Smartphones;
  • The next billion;
  • Future disruptions.

 

Smartphones

Beginning 2011, Nokia will use Microsoft’s Windows Phone for its main smartphone operating system. The reason for this is that the smartphone battle is now a war of ecosystems rather than just devices. An ecosystem consists of devices, services, third-party providers, a strong app market and delighted customers. Microsoft, Nokia and its other partners will form a strong ecosystem to bring innovation and choice into the market. MeeGo now becomes a platform for future disruption of the market through innovative and different devices. Symbian will continue to be supported and developed as the full product portfolio takes shape.

 

The next billion

Around 3.2 billion people do not currently own a mobile phone. Nokia’s reach, extensive product portfolio and market presence worldwide make it the best-placed manufacturer to supply the next billion mobile phone users with great devices and rich services suited to local needs. In addition, we’ll be taking the Internet to the users of these phones in their next step. The Series 40 operating system, Ovi Life Tools and Java development are keystones here.

 

Future disruptions

Innovation in the field of mobile devices is far from over and Nokia is determined to play a key role in the future of this field. MeeGo will play a key part in this, and continued support for revolutionary research and development work across Nokia’s worldwide research labs, the Qt development framework and independent providers will help to fuel this further.

 

Culled from Nokia.

Africa’s Path To Knowledge Economy – Investment In Emerging Technologies

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It is the most dominant technology in our world, but it does not have a creative presence in Africa. Without it, there is no ICT. It matters so much that US, Canada, Japan and Europe have integrated foundry projects for their students. It is the gunpowder of the knowledge economy army.

 

 

Without it, you lose the battle of global competition. Africa must develop its microelectronics industry, organically, from bottom-up. And we mean students for continuity and sustainability management. Microelectronics is the engine that drives the information age and without its constant evolution, ICT cannot advance.

 

 

In AFRIT campaign, it plans to help establish at least one world-class microelectronics institute and ten microelectronics labs in the continent in coming years. They hope to form African Microelectronics Network to enable SMEs and universities share and network design kits, process data, and technology files. This is the major way to creatively improve Africa’s Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) and move Africa forward by designing and manufacturing ICT products, over mere importation of them.

 

The complete roadmap is here.

Samsung Galaxy S II Review – The Sequel To The 2010 Most Popular Handset

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The Galaxy S was one of the most popular handsets of 2010 and so it is no surprise that Samsung would issue out a sequel. In fact, at the time of the Galaxy S II´s release the original Galaxy S still remains one of the most popular and best selling phones available in the UK. While a slightly modified version of the original was provided with the Samsung Galaxy SL the Galaxy S II is by no means a slightly polished rehash. The Galaxy S II follows on the same award winning design principles while undeniably pushing Samsung to the forefront of the next generation of mobile phones.

 

The original Galaxy S featured a 4″ screen employing Samsung´s Super AMOLED technology, which at the time was the finest screen technology available on phones. This has since come into competition from the likes of Apple´s Retina Display and the LG Optimus Black´s IPS LCD screen but the developers at Samsung have also been hard at work improving their screen technology and Super AMOLED Plus is what they have come up with. This is even more impressive than the original Super AMOLED which still remains a highly desirable feature.

 

The screen on the Galaxy S II has been bumped up a notch to 4.3″, which some might consider excessive in light of the fact that the Galaxy S was not exactly petite. This increase in screen size, which is perfectly suited for better web browsing and video entertainment, has been compensated for by a slimmed down body. At 8.5mm the Galaxy S II is one of the slimmest phones on the market and has already chipped away Apple´s smugly held claims of possessing the World´s Thinnest Smartphone.

 

The screen comes with Gorilla Glass, high WVGA resolution and colour depth, multitouch input and an accelerometer for interface auto-rotation. There is also a gyro sensor which affords the Galaxy S II fully 3 dimensional controls which are ideal for games and other apps. The Galaxy S II runs on dual core 1.2GHz processors with 1GB RAM, making it one of the speediest phones on the market and certainly worthy of its “S” epithet.

 

The Galaxy S II runs on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread with optional Near Field Communications (NFC) which can allow your phone to be used like a credit card, amongst other things. The OS is combined with Samsung´s TouchWiz interface giving it a unique feel to other Android handsets. Due to its Android status the Galaxy S II comes with a large range of Google features supported out of the box, including Gmail, Google Talk, Picasa and YouTube. The latter app, along with Adobe Flash 10.1 allow you to stream videos from online for your own entertainment.

 

You can enjoy your own music and video content as well with the Galaxy S II come with a fantastic range of support for all the popular file formats, including Flac. The Galaxy S II comes with either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage which can be complemented with up to 32GB of microSD cards, providing a maximum potential of 64GB. This places the phones far ahead of the leading competition in terms of the volume of content it can store. Additionally there is an FM radio with RDS, and the MHL AV link, Wi-Fi DNLA and Wi-Fi Direct all allow you to hook the Galaxy S II up to a home TV to enjoy your videos.

These can be videos that you have copied onto the phone through microUSB, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, or perhaps videos you are streaming from online. It can also include videos you have captured yourself from the phone´s 8 megapixel camera as this comes with 1080p video recording at an unrivalled 30fps. The camera also includes an LED flash and features such as geo-tagging and face detection.

 

The Galaxy S II comes with integration for social networks like Facebook and Twitter, allowing you to more easily update your status or send out a tweet. Threaded SMS is available, as is MMS, email and instant messaging.

 

At the time of its release it really does seem like the Galaxy S II outperforms all of its competition in almost all aspects of its functionality. It has a very high quality screen with Super AMOLED Plus, excellent 1080p video recording, with DLNA and Wi-Fi Direct to perfectly compliment it. It also has more storage available than any other phone for media content and also comes with the latest dual core processing power. In terms of messaging, entertainment, photography and general web browsing the Galaxy S II ticks all the right boxes.

 

 

Editor’s Note: You can buy this  phone at our UK partner, Best Mobile Contract

Main One Cable Project Begins, Internet access To Expand In West African Region

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With the commencement of the Main One Cable Project, Nigeria, Ghana and the rest of Africa are set to experience a major boost in Internet access and a hefty reduction in tariffs. In what is clearly a major milestone especially for the West Africa sub-region, Main One Cable System, has acquired the first ever issued under-sea cable system landing licence in West Africa. In addition, the pioneering organisation has made the requisite contractual payments to Tyco Telecommunications who will implement both phases of the project on a turnkey basis. Work has therefore begun on the massive intercontinental submarine fibre optic cable project.

 

The Main One cable project is an ambitious under-sea fibre optic cabling project that will extend from Portugal to the West and Southern Coasts of Africa, respectively. The first phase of the project will span 6,900 kilometres, extending from Portugal to Nigeria and Ghana on the West Coast of Africa. The second phase is expected to extend by another 6,000 kilometres to South Africa and Angola. Using Dense Wave Multiplexing technology of 1.28 Terabits per second with two fibre pairs, the Main One cable is designed to deliver more capacity to the region than any of the other existing or proposed under-sea fibre projects.

 

In addition to considerably enhancing broadband access the Main One cable project will help to crash tariffs significantly. It will provide open access to regional telecom operators and Internet Service Providers at rates that are less than twenty percent of current international bandwidth tariffs obtainable via SAT 3 or satellite service operators.

 

The Main One project will also drive job provision across the continent.

 

Tyco Telecommunications  is a business unit of Tyco Electronics and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology which has in more than 50 years of operation, designed, manufactured and installed more than 80 undersea fibre optic systems around the world.

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