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Co-Creation Hub Nigeria Partners With World Bank And NASA For Waterhackathon

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October 21st to 23rd, 2011 is the period for the global WaterHackathon, an event designed with a simple mission: solve global water problems. Co-Creation Hub Nigeria will be hosting the event in Nigeria through a partnership with NASA, World Bank, among others. Simply, they want to bring software experts to hack water problems out and come up with solutions.

The WaterHackathon is a two-day marathon hacking event with multiple global locations bringing together software developers from all over to hack on real-world water problems.  The WaterHackathon event is planned for Fall 2011.

Do not think far, there is software in water purification and quality. It is just that it may not be that simple as per Nigeria’s problems because the people that need water do not live in Lagos. Some are not even counted in Nigeria’s census because they are cut-off from life. Read more and get the solutions right away if you have a lot of code armor; it is software for water; yes, software!

Water is essential to sustain life and economic development. Yet the number of people without access remains daunting: 2.5 billion with no sanitation and 887 million without access to safe water. The sustainable management of water resources has acquired a new urgency in the face a global population expected to reach nine billion by 2050, economic development spurring demand for more and better food, and increased hydrological variability caused by climate change.

New ideas, better data and innovative instruments are needed to respond to this global water crisis. In search of just that, The World Bank and its partners aims to seed a new community that brings together software engineers and water experts to (1) identify critical global challenges and project specific problems in order to (2) develop software to respond to them.  Towards this, end the WaterHackathon was conceived as venue for co-creation.

Until then, we invite you to get involved.  We need water experts from around the world to define, refine and submit problem definitions on the wide-range of water issues facing developing countries today, including access to clean water and sanitation, flood management and agricultural water management and environmental pollution.

Check out the problem definition ideas and learn how to submit a water problem.

October 21st to 23rd, 2011

Print Providers Place Importance In Recycled Paper, Says InfoTrends Research

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During the fourth quarter of 2010, InfoTrends and the North American Publishing Company (NAPCO) conducted a Web-based questionnaire with print providers regarding their opinions on print revenue/volume trends, paper grades, runnability issues, and paper attributes. Due to the growing importance of environmental sustainability, some of the questions were directly related to “green” initiatives.

 

The respondents indicated that 35% of its paper consumption is recycled. In-plants have a higher consumption of recycled paper compared to print-for-pay respondents. The higher percentage for in-plants may be due to corporate policies mandating a certain percentage of paper products be recycled material.

 

 

About 68% of respondents felt that certain vertical segments are more committed than others to using recycled content. Pricing seems to be a barrier for increased use of recycled content by customers. Around 57% indicated that their customers are unwilling to pay more for recycled paper compared to 22% who believe their customers would.

 

There is a belief that larger companies, in an effort to minimize their environmental footprint, are more committed to using recycled content. This belief holds true among the survey respondents with nearly half agreeing that this is the case. Nevertheless, there remains some ambivalence about the use of recycled content for personal use by customers. Close to 38% of respondents were unsure about customers’ preference to use recycled paper for their own use than for print jobs.

 

It is very evident that as the environment movement continues, more people will be using recycled papers.

Android App Development Training In Nigeria – Visit The Experts

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Fasmicro runs a hands on training lab where participants acquire the skills required to create world class Android Applications. This programme is aimed at everybody, irrespective of your programming skill level.  At the end of our training, all participants would be able to develop fully functioning mobile applications that target the Android platform

 

Course Outline

Day 1 – First Steps

  • Introducing Android App Inventor
  • Instruction Blocks
  • Application Components
  • Inventing an App

Day 2 – Creating Utilities

  • Envisioning Solutions
  • Sample Projects
  • Labs

Day 3 – Game and App Development

  • Understanding the Sprite
  • Sample Projects
  • Labs

Day 4 – Android and Embedded Systems

  • Connecting to external devices
  • Bluetooth, WiFi and GSM Networks
  • Sample Projects
  • Labs

Day 5 – Monetizing your efforts

  • From code to cash
  • Integrating ads into your application
  • How to sell your apps

 

 

 


 

Schedule

The venue of our training is at Fasmicro’s training centre. No 124A Okigwe road, Owerri, Imo State.

 

Date: Email info@fasmicro.com / We train all year long.

 

What you would get.

Every participant would get an OVIM Android tablet for home keeping, the complete list of goodies include:

  • 7” Android Tablets (OVIM)
  • Complete and Up–to–date software development kits
  • Reference Books and Practice Materials
  • Reserved slots for uploading apps to the Fasmicro Android apps store
  • Lifetime access to Fasmicro’s training facilities and technical staff for

 

Making Preparations

  • Every participant is required to come with a laptop with a functioning wireless network card.
  • Note that no programming skills are required.
  • If you are attending from outside Owerri, Fasmicro can help you make your hotel reservations. Visit here for the nearly hotels to our facility.

 

Pricing

The cost per participant is N49,900

 

Contact: Email info@fasmicro.com or call the Owerri lines for registrations

Get $1000 For Developing On Skiller Mulitplayer And Social Game SDK

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Skiller, a game developer, offers a mulitplayer  and social SDK which is available on Android and J2ME!  Developers can  can create true cross-platform multiplayer games based on them. It is simply develop your game, integrate it with the Skiller platform and…you can earn $1000.

Skiller, a leading provider of social mobile gaming platforms, has released its Java SDK, which joins the previously successful Android SDK release, enabling game developers to introduce new social dimension in their existing and upcoming games.

With their SDK,  your players will have the ability to fully interact with each other using a large variety of social features such as on-line multiplayer capabilities, messaging, leader-boards, personal profile, avatars and more.

Start earning today! gain access to our virtual currency system which allows you to sell game related virtual goods to make your games more interesting and increase your revenues

The Skiller SDK integration is simple and creates more traction and longer game retention.

The Skiller SDKs along with Skiller’s social cloud are offered FREE to game developers.

You can download the SDK here

Tune in next week for our comparisons of the best gaming monitors.

HP Pre 3 Phone Review – Elegance With The Original Gene Of WebOS

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The original Palm Pre was a big success and won a lot of respect within the mobile phone industry for its WebOS operating system. While many felt this was truly a real step forward in mobile phone operating systems which introduced new concepts such as true multitasking, it was not available on non-Palm handsets. By the time the Pre 2 was due for release, manufacturer Palm was experiencing a lot of difficulties and was eventually bought out by computer giant HP.

 

 

Since the acquisition HP has been keen to carry on Palm´s popular line of handsets and with the HP Pre 3 it seems they have remained true to the original design. While the Pre 3 may look slightly different to the two preceding Pre handsets it still comes with the same overall look and feel and the same award winning WebOS interface. Having said this, the WebOS interface has seen an upgrade since the Palm Pre 2.

 

 

Like the earlier Pre handsets, the HP Pre 3 features a sliding mechanism with a QWERTY pad revealed from behind the screen. This keypad is reminiscent of the sort of compacted keyboards found on BlackBerry phones and which are perfectly suited for faster message and email typing. The Pre 3 does come with excellent email and messaging features on board including threaded SMS. There is also 3G and Wi-Fi connections available so that you can virtually always have an online presence, with social networks like Facebook also coming with great support on this phone.

 

 

The HP Pre 3 has had an update in processing power, now featuring a 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU. While this is not as fast as some of the dual core processors currently making their way onto smartphones it still offers a considerable boost in speed from the 1GHz powered Pre 2. Internal storage space is limited to either 8GB or 16GB as there is no microSD slot, which is perhaps one of the biggest disappointments for this phone.

 

 

For most people however, this should provide plenty of storage for music and video and both of these are excellently supported by the Pre 3´s media player. With Adobe Flash 10.1 installed users can enjoy a great deal more entertainment from online video streaming websites, and the camera on the Pre 3 now supports 720p HD video recording.

 

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