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Fasmicro Is Bringing Integrated Circuit Design To Nigerian Universities – Working With Global Leader, Cadence

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Fasmicro will form a Cadence Academic Network in Nigeria very soon as it is done in other parts of the world.

 

This is the vision when we authored the national Microelectronics thematic area on Vision 2020 for Nigerian government. What this means is that the selected school will help us with primary data to push for a national program which we will author and send to the Senate.

 

 

EUROPRACTICE is a European Commission initiative, funded by the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). The aim is to improve the competitiveness of European industry by the adoption of advanced electronics technologies.

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.

 

Meanwhile, we invite schools that want to join the network in Nigeria to send an email via the Vice Chancellor to info@fasmicro.com. Every aspect of this program is free and we are not accepting anything in return.  As we build more schools, we will help standardize SDK, PDK,  techfiles and other process and technology parameters for Nigeria. That way you can design your chip and send to partner institutions for fabrication. Fasmicro has already initiated contacts with MOSIS and CMP France for prototype chip fabrication. We will formalize all aspects in coming weeks. We hope to design on AMI 0.5um  and TSMC 0.18um processes as a start,

 

As soon as the systems are ready, we will run a three month program on the Cadence design process. Our pivot university will most likely be Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria with Babcock University Nigeria as the next one.

 

 

 

Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc. For years it had been the largest company in the EDA industry. The name is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable.

Multilinks Staff In Confusion Over Their Future – Layoffs Loom Without Compensations

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The saga surrounding Visafone purchase and later cancellation of Multilinks. Then Telkom sale of the company to Helios Towers. And then, then; it is still evolving! But it seems that one group of people are losing badly – the workers of Multilinks.

Helios Towers rents out towers so that telecommunication operators can provide network coverage and build. They do this largely in Africa with Nigeria as one of its big markets. Helios Towers is a division of a private equity firm founded by a Nigerian UK based Harvard graduate who also invested in First City Monument Bank before the crash. This company has quite a war chest under management. Tekedia confirms that Helios Investment Partners holds rights in Helios Towers as our previous report confirmed.

Tekedia reports that Multilinks workers are troubled over what has happened in the last few months, if not weeks. They are not sure that the new management will need them or if they are to sack them will even compensate them.

The workers are visibly concerned that the Helios Towers driven by private equity firm in London will take the short pathway of firing and not paying any compensation. They are expecting the worst with some are not even expecting any kind of compensation. Everything now depends on the clause in the sale of the company by Telkom to Helios.

What is certain is that problems loom as even those that will be retained cannot be sure how long this Multilink metamorphosis will end. The new management will not remove competition from GSM players which continue to undermine any efforts from the CDMA small players, including Multilinks. Multilniks is a losing entity and its loses is expected to continue in the already saturating Nigeria telecom sector.

Tekedia has stated the only way out of the CDMA players is to merge. But for now, the workers of Multilinks will have to live the next few weeks.

HTC Desire S Review – The Handset That Got HTC To The Global Arena

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The original Desire was the handset that really solidified HTC as one of the world´s leading smartphone manufacturers and was also one of the bestselling phones of 2010. Due to its phenomenal popularity HTC has now reissued the device with some more contemporary features. Although some areas of the new Desire S have been upgraded, including the HSPA and Wi-Fi connections and Android operating system, the newer version remains very faithful to the original.

 

If you have just bought the original Desire it might not be worthwhile rushing out to get the S version just yet, but if your beloved Desire has seen better days then this latest version with its tweaks and updates may be just what you need.

 

Screen and Physical Design

 

The original Desire was released with an AMOLED screen but, due to shortages from manufacturer Samsung, HTC later made a switch to Super LCD. The new Desire S is to ship with a Super LCD screen right from its launch providing a much sharper screen rendering than the very first Desire handsets. Measuring at 3.7″ and with the same WVGA resolution the screen is one area of the Desire S that has not really changed from the original phone.

 

Running on capacitive technology the Desire S provides users with full multitouch input and a very responsive touchscreen. This screen is made from Gorilla Glass which is much stronger than the glass or plastic that is traditionally used for mobile phone screens. It provides extra protection against the scratches that would otherwise be acquired as your phone jostles with your keys for a comfortable position in your pocket.

 

 

Below the screen of the original Desire there was an optical trackpad which could be used to navigate around the HTC Sense interface. This was an interface that was quite often implemented on BlackBerry devices and it seems that HTC now considers it to be rather burmo in today´s touch savvy mobile phone world as it has been completely removed for the new Desire S.

 

Additionally the Desire S no longer features the same physical buttons as the original on its exterior. The home, menu, back and search buttons are now more discretely blended into the phone´s screen bezel. A simple change yet it does dramatically improve the look and feel of the device. One other result of this alteration is that the Desire S is now slightly smaller than the original in terms of height. It also slimmer and not quite as wide and although the physical changes may only seem slight they do produce a more comfortable to hold phone.

 

Android Gingerbread

 

The original Desire shipped with Android Éclair and was later updated to Android Froyo, although the Desire S features the even newer Android Gingerbread. This includes an improved onscreen keyboard, better copy/paste functionality and a whole host of new tweaks and features. Although Google had introduced support for Near Field Communications (NFC) with Android Gingerbread this is not a feature that is supported on the Desire S as it lacks the relevant NXP NFC chip to operate it.

 

Even so users of the Desire S will get to enjoy the many enhancements of the new Android OS and combined with HTC´s Sense interface it offers up some excellent entertainment and messaging features. HTC Sense in particular is a great interface for social networking with social networks like Twitter and Facebook integrated into many areas of the phone.

 

Messaging and Photography

 

The Desire S also has other messaging features including threaded SMS, email and instant messaging. One of the hardware improvements from the original is that the new Desire S comes with 3D data connections at twice the speed allowing you to enjoy faster online communications.

 

This is good news for general web browsing as well and certainly for making use of bandwidth hogging activities like YouTube. The Desire S also features improved Wi-Fi as it now comes with support for Wi-Fi 802.11 n and DLNA. The added DLNA support now allows you to stream YouTube videos and other contents through a larger television.

 

You can also record your own videos with the Desire S´s 5 megapixel camera. The original Desire came with support for WVGA video and this was upgraded to 720p with the Android Froyo update. The Desire S features 720p recording out of the box however, so no software update is required before having some HD video fun. The Desire S now features a front facing camera as well, with the VGA device being something that was not found on the original. With this you can enjoy the latest craze of video calling.

 

Entertainment

 

The Desire S comes with a great many entertainment features on board. This includes support for a wide range of music and video formats that can be enjoyed on the phone´s media player. With access to Android Market you can also download many alternative media players as well as thousands of apps and games to enjoy.

 

As already mentioned the Desire S comes with support for YouTube so that you can enjoy online video content and you can also enjoy this from other websites too with support for Adobe Flash. The Desire S also comes with an FM radio that you can use to enjoy the latest music on release. The Desire S comes with support for 32GB microSD cards so that you are afforded a great deal of room for music and video.

 

The Desire S is ideal for enjoying all of the great games available from Android Market as its Super LCD screen and Adreno graphics acceleration provide some impressive visual quality. The Desire S also has a speedy 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 768MB RAM under its wing to provide some effective processing power.

 

While the CPU of the original Desire has not had an upgrade to dual core as many had hoped would be the case with this new iteration, the phone has had a boost in terms of its physical memory and graphical acceleration so there will be noticeable improvements for people who had used the original handset.

 

 

Summary

 

The original Desire was highly popular with critics and the general public alike and has been one of the biggest success stories for HTC so far. The new Desire S does not offer all the bells and whistles of HTC´s next flagship the Sensation but it does make an otherwise great phone even better. The updated Android OS and 3G connections will give this Desire a new lease of life and by sticking to the same winning design HTC is hoping that they will not upset too many people who have become loyal admirers of the HTC Desire smartphone.

 

However, although this is still a fantastic smartphone it is not quite as cutting edge as the original Desire was when it was released back in 2010 and will most likely not make as big of a splash. It is for this reason and this reason alone that the Desire S has been awarded 4 stars instead of 5, as in and of itself it is as much of a flawless handset as the original.

 

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What Happens If Knowledge Is Commoditized? Move Over Knowledge Economy, Welcome The Evolution Economy

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The legendary Peter Drucker, the Father of Management, stated these iconic words: ‘the best way to predict the future is to create it’. The building theory is that when nations and firms have control over many future variables, they have more chances to succeed.  And creating that future requires constant new knowledge in the ever dynamic world.

 

As Dr. Drucker saw it more than half a century ago when he coined the term ‘knowledge worker’, it was very evident that the most important factor to building a new world will be the knowledge. In other words, the world has to move beyond the classical theory of factors of production where land, labor, and capital were very formidable in the lives of firms to one where knowledge would be most important.

 

A knowledge that is so potent that it can disrupt markets by creating new products and services as well as bringing new class of consumers by meeting their needs and perceptions.  Developing that knowledge capability positions nations and firms to have better competitiveness. It is doing the business of human existence cheaply and efficiently through technologies engineered and managed by the new class of workers.

 

As nations develop these workers, they improve their productivities and over time they will develop knowledge comparative advantages through clusters of brain powers. Positioning to tap these clusters, ‘outsourcing’ was born, not necessarily because of the relative cheaper labor, but because there is knowledge capacity to do the job by the ‘outsourcee’.

 

In essence, knowledge brings readiness and satisfies that elemental factor for location and localization of industries-labor. Unlike the industrial labor, this labor is more mobile, adaptive and agile, and has a nucleus of brainpower, instead of muscles.

 

With the advent of Internet, nations become conduits of knowledge, having the power to become richer by selling and buying knowledge. America exports knowledge management, but buys knowledge IT skills in India, making knowledge both a tool and a product.

 

Gradually, but noticeably, new firms that have small land, labor and capital became disrupters in markets as the likes of Microsoft created a new industry and Google redesigned that industry with Facebook working to re-emerge it.

 

The knowledge leads to a new society. We have already seen the effects as citizens willingly share private information to the public. Citizens are more active in news generation and consumption. A society that embraces change in continuity and innovation within time-tested practices is what we have. Industries exist, but within them, we have remade them.

 

In the knowledge economy, knowledge is a product which must be managed just as other factors of production. Under this construct, we discuss the economy of knowledge. When used in the context of a knowledge based economy, knowledge becomes the technologies that enable new creation. Under these two definitions, knowledge has a duality: tool and product.

 

Most of the economic theories in use today were formulated during the industrial economy.  Unfortunately, despite the transition from industrial to knowledge economy in most economies, those theories are still in use. Increasingly, the work of economists in understanding the direction of global economy has been difficult as boom and bust have become very cyclical with no end in sight. One main explanation is that the rules and practices of economics and management are still anchored on industrial economy and cannot align with the new economic system.

 

You can neither measure nor understand the knowledge economy with the tools developed for industrial economy.

 

We have seen disproportionate failures of regulators to prevent chaos in the world economic system. From mortgage crises to EU debt crises, one reality is that the world has become very complex to be properly vetted and understood.  The challenge is not the regulation, but the tools which are used in doing it.

 

Yet, the knowledge economy will morph into a new economic system: the Evolution Economy or Singularity Economy.  It will usher the era of singularity where technological progress will become extremely advanced, and consequently will make the future unpredictable. It will be a time of infinite intelligence with self replicating machines more powerful that what we have today.

 

The challenge is that if the world cannot develop the right tools for the knowledge economy, the evolution economy will be more daunting. Global risk mitigation requires awareness that knowledge could lose its duality, enabling a new class of workers: the evolution workers.

Radial Circle – A Emerging Titan For Telecom, Oil Support, Marine Services And Security Solutions In Nigeria

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Radial Circle Group consist of companies established between 1995 to date, and is involved in provision of Telecommunications Solution, Marine Electronics and Navigational Aids, Security Solutions, Instrumentation and Automation, Electrical Power Systems and Project Engineering Design, Installation and Commissioning (EPIC) in Nigeria and other parts of Gulf of Guinea.

 

The companies are:
• Radial Circle Telecommunications Limited.
• Radial Oil Support Services Limited.
• Radial Circle Marine Services Limited.
• Radial Circle Security Solutions Limited.

 

Since inception, the company laid emphasis on developing sound technological base and in view of this, significant resources have been spent in training staff and creating technical partnerships with various high technology companies all over the world.

 

Also, Radial Circle Telecommunications Limited is a major Marketing and Implementation Company.  They design, build and implement Telecommunications carrier network infrastructure, and value added consumer network solutions for voice, data and video services, which enables service providers and corporate bodies to deliver integrated voice and data services to their customers. They also integrate hardware and software elements that together resolve the challenges of the telecommunications services across Nigeria and West Africa.

 

Some of their products include:

NERA Telecommunications

Inmarsat Limited

Telenor Broadband Services

Proxim Corporation

Harris Limited

Jotron Electronics

Furuno

Thrane & Thrane

Bosch

Autronica Fire and Security AS

Telco Systems

Graybar Communications Limited

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