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Africa-Themed Apps Rule Google Android Developer Challenge — Sub-Saharan Africa

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Google is pleased to announce the finalists in the Android Developer Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa. These finalists were selected by our official panel of judges. Please see our official page for more information about the challenge.

Entertainment / Media / Games

Human Droid, KenyaA game that lets players battle one another virtually while in the same physical location.
What’s Happening?, KenyaAn events and entertainment finder in Nairobi that could be customized for other cities.
Matatu, UgandaA two player competitive card game.
Slate Racer, South AfricaA time trial racing game.
Gliese, South AfricaA 2D platformer game.
Bawo Board Game, South AfricaAn app for a popular African board game.
Afrinolly, NigeriaAn app to watch African movie trailers and track the stars.
Ha!! Buggy, SenegalA fast-paced racing game.
Ayo, NigeriaAn app for an ancient board game of strategy from west Africa.

Social Networking / Communication

SMS Tweetbox, KenyaAn app that connects smartphone and non-smartphone users through SMS.
Seekika, KenyaA mobile audio storytelling application.
Olalashe, KenyaAn open source SOS and alerting mapping app.
Dribble, South AfricaA geo-social networking service that allows users to leave location-based messages.
Cnectd, South AfricaA cross-platform mobile messaging app for smartphones.
Setswana Phrases, MalawiA phrase dictionary of the Setswana language.
Nomad, TogoAn app that pushes notifications for a social network called Oasis.
TextOnMotion, NigeriaAn app that allows you to navigate and text at the same time.
Yandda!, NigeriaAn app that engraves your signature at any location for others to discover.

Productivity / Tools / Local / Geo

GPS Tanzania Guide, TanzaniaA tourist and business guide to Tanzania.
Shoppers’ Delight, KenyaAn app that assists shoppers comparing prices across several supermarkets.
Rush Hour, KenyaAn app that helps drivers navigate the streets of Nairobi with speed and safety.
Wedding Plandroid, South AfricaAn app that makes planning a wedding easy and helps to get brides and grooms ready for their big day.
Booka, South AfricaAn app that helps locate nearest car dealers, book a car in for a service, and track the progress of a service request.
SpotIt, South AfricaAn app that lets users find and report animals while on safari.
UniDayz, GhanaAn app that helps university students better manage and prioritize their coursework.
Breeze Through Service, NigeriaAn app that enables services providers to improve the quality of their services and strategic business decisions.
Wise Africa, Republic of GuineaAn African proverbs crowdsourcing app for Android.
Esoko, GhanaA market app for agricultural goods that allows users to track inventory and find the best price.

The Review Of Nokia E7

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The Nokia E7 was released together with the C6-01 and C7, and all three phones are the first Nokia handsets to make use of the new Symbian^3 OS. This update on the world´s most popular phone OS adds in new social networking integration and some backend features that should see an dramatic increase in the number of apps available.

 

The E7 has much in common with the C7, and both phones excel in all areas they lay their hands on. This includes photography, video and music entertainment, gaming and online activities. The E7 is marked out from the C7 by the inclusion of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a slightly larger screen.

 

The 4″ AMOLED screen is very roomy and of the highest quality. It is ideal for just about every endeavour you partake in on the E7 and comes with over 16 million colours and OpenGL 3D acceleration. When held horizontally the E7 conforms to 16:9 widescreen ratio which makes it ideal for watching widescreen videos without those black bars that some people find annoying. A secondary VGA camera on the front of the E7, combined with 3G and Wi-Fi, allows you to make video calls to contacts.

 

The HD video camera is also capable of recording in widescreen, which with its high resolution provides a far greater video quality than you would expect from a phone camera. The camera is also fantastic for capturing still images and comes with a dual LED flash and many other features like geo-tagging. With 16GB internal storage space you have plenty of room for keeping hold of your favourite videos or all of your pictures. Unfortunately this is not upgradable with microSD, but 16GB still provides plenty of room for all manner of media content.

 

Music is available through Nokia Music Player which comes with a high degree of codec support as well as being able to play DRM protected music. You can access new music from Ovi Store or Ovi Music Unlimited, or you can simply copy over music from your home computer. Video content can also be streamed from online and the E7 comes with Web TV, providing you with access to the likes of BBC and CNN.

 

The inclusion of the QWERTY keyboard makes this an ideal phone for messaging, and with great SMS, social networking and email support this is even more so. A number of email protocols are supported including Mail for Exchange and web based email. The E7 supports threaded SMS viewing as well as a number of instant messaging clients. The new Symbian OS allows information from social networks to be integrated into the phone, on the homescreen, contacts list and even in the phone´s calendar.

The main deciding factor between the E7 and C7, which are fairly similar handsets, would be left down to the QWERTY keypad and the slightly larger screen of the E7.

 

Editor’s Note: This review is made possible through a special arrangement with the premium UK  mobile phone contracts site.

Contact Tekedia if You Need Google Plus Invitations – Nd’s Google Plus Profile

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I am Nd and this is my Google Plus profile. The site is sleek, simple and great. This is a place that could challenge Facebook dominance in social media landscape in coming months. But Google + does not have Zynga and that is the problem for some folks.

 

If you need invitations to Google Plus, email tekedia@fasmicro.com.

 

Thank you Olabode for the inside connection. He gave me the IV and he has a lot remaining.

 

 

Chinese Gray-Market Handsets to Decline 100 millions Units Within Four Years

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The Chinese white-box and gray-smartphone market, 2011 will see domestic Chinese suppliers focus mainly on EDGE smartphones based on the Android operating system, as well as 3G smartphones from 2012 onward, reports IHS iSuppli.

 

From the report, the illegal handets are projected to expand to 255 million units in 2011 and then begin to decline to 213 million units in 2012.  By 2015, it will be less than 200 million units.

 

Several factors account for the decline in the shipment of gray-market smartphones in China, including stronger supervision by the Chinese government of gray-market handsets and a serious crackdown on counterfeit mobile phones. Moreover, players in the emerging markets, supplying product to their own areas, are grabbing market share away from gray-handset suppliers.

 

Other factors include concern from end customers about the quality and aftersales services of gray handsets; the expansion in market share of dominant local players like ZTE, Huawei, TCL/Alcatel and Sangfei into the developing countries, with cooperation from local operators; the change from some traditional gray-handset suppliers into branded original equipment manufacturers that promote their own trade names in the developing countries; the increasing difficulty among gray handsets in differentiating from similar platforms, such as those operated by big entities MediaTek or Spreadtrum; and the lack of a cost advantage in gray handsets when compared to 2G phones, as well as the absence of a competitive 3G turnkey solution for gray handsets in the near future.

 

It is interesting to know that the Chinese government has started to clamp on the makers of these fake or illegal handsets. We expect that to happen and for the makers to become increasingly unprofitable in the business.

IDC Identifies Five Social Business Maturity Model Stages – Social Customer Drives New Businesses

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The business world has entered a new realm where consumer social networking dynamics have met enterprise reality. A new survey from International Data Corporation shows that 14 percent of respondents have some sort of social business initiative underway.

 

Yet,  these projects vary greatly – from operational to strategic. In trying to access the best way to help business, IDC developed identified five stages for enterprises in this domain. The IDC’s Social Business Maturity Model stages are:

Experimentation

  1. Compartmentalization
  2. Integration
  3. Operationalization
  4. Optimization

 

In the report, there are notable observations as explained by the IDC GVP, Software Business Solutions:

 

“2011 has seen rapid expansion of business change that is being driven by the social customer, empowered employees, and a convergence of new technical capabilities,” said Michael Fauscette, group vice president, Software Business Solutions. “Businesses are deploying and using new social tools at an ever-increasing pace. This business change cycle is challenging the enterprise, but at the same time offering many new business opportunities. IDC has created the social business maturity model to help companies that are growing in their adoption of social business and want to optimize their use of social tools.”

 

It is very important for firms to understand the emerging redesign of how companies function. Increasingly, social media interface has become a new horizon in business.  Finding a strategy at this onset will become important for organizations to be in tune with the new normal of the business world.  Social media is here and learning to serve and curate social customers is a new understanding that business must have.

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