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The World In 2050, South Africa Loses The “S” In BRICs Nations

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We have a new report from United Nations, Goldman Sachs, and World Bank estimating the top 10 economies by GDP in 2050, the population and global spread of wealth. We will focus on the top 10 economies data.

 

The numbers in billions of US dollars are as follows:

 

China $70,710

USA $38,514

India $37,668

Brazil $11,366

Mexico $9,340

Russia $8,580

Indonesia $7,010

Japan $6,677

UK $ 5,133

Germany $5,024

 

Please note that Japan will be displaced from the present 3rd position to 8th. US loses the top position badly with China nearly doubling the US GDP. The most interesting is that Germany loses to UK. Germany is Europe’s top economy today. Why is that going to happen? No clues.

 

But the main point here is that South Africa does not make it. All the BRICs nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) make it. South Africa has been advertising that they are the “s” in the BRICS is nowhere. We wish that promotion translates to real impacts on people’s lives.

 

Of course, everything here is an estimate. Last 25 years, no one mentioned China. But today, they dominate the world. We could be surprised that Nigeria can sneak in. It is all about execution and vision and it can happen.

 

New Product! High-Voltage Line Drivers For Industrial Automation

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Olabode Olakanmi
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Avago Technologies announced three new high-voltage line drivers that augment its offerings for the industrial automation market. The AEIC-7272, AEIC-7273 and AEIC-2631 quad differential line drivers provide the additional supply voltage required for industrial applications, up to 30V. With integrated current limiting and thermal shutdown features, the line drivers protect against shorts to assure highly-reliable operation in harsh environments for industrial encoder and sensor interfaces, industrial programmable logic controllers and servo drive applications.

 

The new Avago line drivers are designed to meet industrial standards for encoder applications. They offer a robust operating temperature range from -55° to 125°C for the AEIC-7272 and AEIC-7273 devices and -40° to 125°C for the AEIC-2631 device. They are all available in industrial standard line driver SOIC packaging. Offering high-impedance buffered inputs with hysteresis, the line drivers provide strong noise margin even in noisy industrial control environments. Avago is exhibiting the new line drivers along with its portfolio of motion control and isolation solutions for motor applications, at the MotorTech Japan 2011 trade show in East Hall 1 booth number 1D-103 from July 20-22.

 

The AEIC-2631 device operates in a wide supply voltage range of 4.75V to 30V and features Tri-State outputs. The AEIC-7272 device features Tri-State outputs and the AEIC-7273 device features NPN Open-Collector outputs, and each operates from 3.5V to 30V. The line drivers’ thermal shutdown feature is accomplished by monitoring junction temperature and comparing this to a band gap reference on-chip.

 

Other features are:

Operation to 800 KHz

CMOS and TTL Compatible Inputs

Separate logic bias and driver supply pins

Optional single supply operation for moderate power

High Impedance Buf  ered Inputs with hysteresis

Tri-State outputs

80 mA peak SINK/SOURCE current

Lead-free, 16-pin SOIC package

 

The Avago AEIC-7272, AEIC-7273 and AEIC-2631 line drivers are priced starting at $2.00 each in 9600 piece quantities. Samples and production quantities are available now through the Avago direct sales channel and via worldwide distribution partners.

For information, visit http://www.avagotech.com/pages/home/

Samsung Galaxy Ace Review – The Most Desirable Of The Galaxy Four (Mini, Fit, Gio, Ace)

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The Samsung Galaxy Ace was unleashed alongside the Galaxy Mini, Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Gio, and while all four phones fall into the affordable midrange section the Galaxy Ace is undoubtedly the most desirable of the four. While the Ace has a lot in common with 2010´s smash hit Galaxy S it has actually been modelled as a successor to the Samsung Galaxy Spica released back in 2009.

 

At a quick glance the Galaxy Ace has a similar form factor to the Galaxy S but has a number of slight hardware changes. It has a slightly reduced 800MHz processor as well as a 3.5″ TFT screen that makes it less imposing than Samsung´s current flagship handset. This runs on capacitive technology allowing for multitouch input and the inclusion of Samsung´s TouchWiz interface allows you to make use of Swype text input for faster messaging.

 

In all respects the Galaxy Ace is a decent little phone for messaging with email and thread SMS under its wing. It also comes with Google Talk for instant messaging, as well as social networking integration for Facebook and Twitter available on TouchWiz. The Ace is also a handy little phone for general web browsing and comes with 3G and Wi-Fi connections to help you with this. Wi-Fi also comes with DLNA so that you can connect the Ace to any other DLNA enabled device such as a TV without needing to go through a wireless hotspot.

 

The Ace has a fairly decent camera on board, although its video recording powers are nothing particularly special at just QVGA resolution. There is also no secondary camera and so video calls are not really possible. However, the 5 megapixel camera does come with some excellent features for still photography such as geo-tagging, an LED flash, face and smile detection and autofocus.

 

The Ace comes with some good entertainment value as well with a large range of music and video formats supported for playback. The internal storage is slightly limited at 158MB but the Ace can support 32GB of microSD cards with a 2GB card included with the phone. The Ace also comes with support for YouTube so you can enjoy streaming videos from the popular website, and also has Picasa integration and many other Google services present.

 

The Samsung Galaxy Ace offers a good range of features for its price bracket and is an excellent cheaper alternative to the Galaxy S. It ticks all the right boxes for entertainment, messaging and general web use and is certainly the most eye catching phone compared to the other three that were released at the same time.

 

You can order this device from the website of our partner, Best Mobile Contracts, UK

Google+ Achieved Over 10 Million Users In 14 days. Also Sharing Over 1 Billion Items Daily

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Olabode Olakanmi
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As we all know that recently a social network has been launched by Google. Larry Page, the CEO of Google, gave a written statement and expressed that the company have substantially increased her velocity and execution. This statement revealed the achievement of Google+ in just 14 days of launch.

 

Google+ is still in field trial with limited access. Users have to be invited, sign up with a profile in order to use it. However, the growth on Google+ has been great. These are the metrics:
Over 10 million people have joined Google+ in 14 days of launch. Great achievement for Google team
Over 1 billion items shared and received in a single day.

 

 

Larry Page, the CEO of Google while sharing the progress the company made in the first quarter said; “Our goal with Google+ is to make sharing on the web like sharing in real life, as well as to improve the overall Google experience. Circles let you choose with precision who you are sharing with. Not surprisingly this has been very well received, because in real life, we share different things with different people. Hangouts allow for serendipitous interactions. Like in real life when you run into a few friends. It gives you seamless and fun multi user video and it’s really amazing!”

 

 

The work force of the Google Plus in the year 2011 has increased tremendously. According to the latest report, around 2,452 people have been added in to the workforce of Google as its employees. This makes an increase of around nine percent.

 

Managing Action Practices – Assignment From An Executive Coach

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If you can do this exercise, you will learn a lot.  We got it from an executive coach.

 

Managing Action Practices

From:

Date:

 

 

What Do I Care About

List what I care about in life and work – the answer to “for the sake of what” am I in action.

  
Overall Promise or Mission:

Come back to Care /Commitment.  What is the promise / mission to which I am committed and how will I know if I’ve fulfilled it?

 

  

 

 
  Headlines of Key Promises:

This is a summary listing of all the promises that are important to me or  my customers.  Each promise is listed with an abbreviated heading (i.e. FAST Process) and gets 1.  Details are in Discussion of Key Promises.

 

  

 
   Discussion of Key Promises and other projects:

The detail data and discussion on the key promises go here.  Each get a few lines which address the promise status, the date of the next action completion, and an assessment of whether the promise will be fulfilled on time and the next action to be completed.

 

  
   

Satisfaction of Key Customers:

Have a conversation and ask customers if they are satisfied. Report here along with dissatisfactions and actions I am taking to produce satisfaction in your next AMP.  Customer priorities may change and this is a place to discuss/discover.

 

  
  Actions from the Last 2 Weeks:

Report here on commitments for action that you made for the last 2 weeks.  Did I complete those that were due?  If not, what is the new commitment?  If I am not completing commitments that are due, what am I seeing or learning from this, and what are new actions do I see to take from the breakdown?

 

  
  Actions for Next Week and Beyond:

What actions am I committing to complete for the coming week or after, in order to fulfill your key promises or other requests?

 

  

 

 
  Key Accomplishments:

Assess against promises and announce accomplishments deserving recognition. Check in to the mood around this & celebrate.

  

 
   Red Flags:

Breakdowns – What is an issue requiring immediate action that threatens or can threaten a promise without action? List in priority order. Give myr assessment, any suggestions or list what is being done to take care of the issue, or what requests do I have. Then assess whether I believe the promise will be fulfilled based on the new actions.

  
 Overall Assessment:

What are my assessments or high level view of all the commitments I am managing? Are promises still relevant? Am I fulfilling the purpose of all the promises? (A. On target, B. Off target with viable correction plan, C. Need help to recover or must renegotiate)

  
Overall Value and Waste Assessment: 

Where the major opportunities with overall performance to are:  1. Reduce waste 2. Increase values

 

  

 
 What I Have Learned:

What have I learned since the last report, in terms of developing myself as an more effective manager of my commitments?  What areas am I focused on for my learning.

  

 

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