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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.

SIGNAL ALLIANCE Wins 2011 Microsoft Country Partner Of The Year Award

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Ejiofor Agada
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Signal Alliance, one of Nigeria’s leading IT solution providers, has won the prestigious Microsoft Country Partner of the year award for Nigeria 2011 at the recently concluded World Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Signal Alliance was rewarded for providing outstanding solutions and services, as well as demonstrating excellent subsidiary engagement in Nigeria for Microsoft.

 

According to Jon Rodskill, corporate vice president, worldwide partner group, Microsoft Corporation “we are pleased to recognize Signal Alliance Nigeria as Microsoft country partner of the year. Signal Alliance demonstrates commitment to serving its customers and our strong partnership is core to our winning together”.

 

The chief executive of Signal Alliance, Mr. Collins Onuegbu, while acknowledging the award, praised Microsoft Corporation for the initiative to reward hard work and encouraged healthy competition when it comes to IT solutions development.

 

He reiterated the vision of Signal Alliance and the resolve to achieve excellent service delivery. His words: “This award is a testimony to the hard-work and dedication of the Signal Alliance team and we are really happy that Microsoft Corporation given us due recognition. This award also throws up a challenge to keep and exceed our standards for next year to remain in the number one position.”

 

He further stated that Signal Alliance prides itself with its vast years of experience and the thorough understanding of the IT business landscape and the combination of appropriate technology to meet the surging needs of its numerous IT based customers. According to him, “this award surely keeps us on our toes, to confront whatever challenges, and most especially bring to mind, our sole aspiration to stay at the top”.

 

The Microsoft awards, which comes up during the yearly World Partner Conference, seeks to honour partners at country level, who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to mutual customers over the past years.

 

The award recognizes Signal Alliance as succeeding in effective engagement with their local Microsoft office, while showcasing innovation, business impact, driving customer satisfaction and winning new customers.

 

Signal Alliance is one of the leading Systems Integrators in Nigeria and currently holds Gold competencies in Microsoft Solutions. In addition to this, they provide enterprise solutions in core ICT areas such as Unified Communications, Borderless Networks solutions and Network Monitoring, Service Management and Assurance, Enterprise Resource Planning and mobile applications.

Nokia Sales And Revenue Tumbled, RIM’s Blackberry Market Struggling, But Apple Rules

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Olawale Bakare
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As regard the two giants phone makers – Nokia ( NYSE: NOK)  and Research In Motion (RIM)  market situations. Indeed, they are facing difficult situation in the world of smartphone presently, are Android phones and Apple’s iPhones responsible for this smartphone market’s misfortune to these phone giants? Well may be.

 

For instance, Nokia has been seen as an icon to Finland – country with population of about 5+ millions.  Perhaps Nokia (NYSE: NOK)  is the largest contributor to gross domestic product (GDP) of Finnish people, until recently the world leading phone maker is being disliked from its homeland, why? According to some reports, Nokia is currently building a new manufacturing plant in Vietnam and that means thousands of job loss in its 2 centers in Finland. So pathetic to the Finns.

 

Nokia Market Situation

Nokia posted a £320million loss – the day after main rival Apple unveiled record quarterly profits. Revenue fell seven percent to £8.2billion from £8.8billion last year. In contrast, Apple announced net income of £4.51billion for the quarter 125 percent higher than a year ago.  It overtook Nokia in the smartphone sector – selling 20million iPhones compared with its rivals’ 16.7million smartphones.

Nokia shipped 88.5million mobile devices between April and June, down from 111million a year ago and 108.5million in the previous quarter.

According to Nokia Chief Executive, Stephen Elop said: “the challenges we are facing during our strategic transformation manifested in a greater than expected way during the quarter. However, I believe our actions to mitigate the impact of these challenges have started to have a positive impact on the underlying health of our business.

 

RIM’s Blackberry Market Situation

The Canadian based smartphone manufacturer – Research in Motion (RIM) is planning to shed its workforce globally by 11%, which means 2,000 jobs cut. According to reports:

Job losses were a prudent and necessary step for RIM’s long-term health, but that has not factored the cost of redundancy pay-offs into its forecasts for the current financial year. It will give details of the financial impact of the cuts when it reports in September.

RIM’s share price slumped 4.32% to $26.73 last week trading in New York. RIM has performed well in the past because of business demand for its handsets, such as the Blackberry Curve, which are quick to use for email and more secure than other models. According to some analysts, viewed “ Blackberry has struggled to broaden their appeal to the general consumers, who tend to prioritize touch-screen functionality over security. It has done well in the enterprise market because it’s very secure and easy to manage, but most people don’t simply care about that”

 

With Apple gearing up to launch new iPhone perhaps a mini –iphone, an affordable price for the larger percentage of developing and emerging markets.  May be towards the last quarter of this year 2011, Apple may strike another blow to Nokia and RIM and Google’s Android platform smartphones. Should they all concede defeat to Apple as the new market leader of smartphone to emerge soon? What do you think?

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