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The Summit is On – Unbanked Africa Summit 2011 from Mobile Monday

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Africa, home to over 800 million people is still grappling with significant unbanked populations even among the urban populations across cities, semi urban and rural communities.Regulators, innovators, technologist,financial services providers, international developmental organizations and governments are rallying around this significant dilemma of Banking the unbanked African.

 

New exciting technologies like the Mobile and cards are bridging the wide divide with innovative solutions like agency Banking, mobile financial services, community and micro finance Banking.

 

Unlike any other place on the Globe, mobile financial services is ushering a new dawn and hope to millions of unbanked people in Africa. Bringing convenience of banking anytime and anywhere using the mobile phones as a means of authentication for basic financial services. The mobile technologies is proving to be the solution to a century old challenge as a transformational channel for previously unbanked which are accessing services for the first time through the convenience and security of the mobile phone.

 

The ubiquitous mobile phone with the strong compelling needs of Africans, coupled with sheer ingenuity is changing lives and connecting Africans to the global e-commerce ecosystem which is more advanced with formal Banking services.

 

With the wide spread availability of the Mobile phones across regions in Africa, the unbanked African is only an sms away!

 

Plan to attend a one day summit which will proffer practical regulatory, technological, commercial solutions to the challenge of reaching the unbanked in Africa.

 

The summit will examine the following:

  • Reducing cost of reaching the unbanked though technology innovations.
  • Social benefits of banking unbanked populations.
  • Measuring impacts of regulation on the unbanked.
  • Building sustainable commercial propositions.
  • Evaluating cost effective channels, technologies and solutions to reach the unbanked.
  • Improving financial literacy to Africa’s unbanked.
  • KYC methodologies suitable for African market.
  • Examining the cross road between Micro Finance, agency Banking and mobile money.
  • Promoting a sustainable investment climate for financial inclusion.
  • Impact of credit in unleashing the potentials of unbanked.
  • Agency Banking as Cost effective channel to deliver commoditized financial services.
  • Delivering transformational Banking experiences for underserved communities.
  • Technological innovations promoting access to low income segments.

 

Speaker line up:

Dr Sead Muftic – CEO, SETECS MOBILE.
Peter Asolo – Head, Flashmecash,Finbank.
Temitope  Akin- Fadeyi – Head,cards and channels, Oceanic Bank International
Sean Owens -CEO,MobilityPAY Africa
Pieter de Villiers -CEO, Clickatell.
Ellinas  Chris, Regional solutions sales Director, NCR
Derrick Dankyi, -CEO, Glife Financial services,Ghana
Dr Kazeem Durodoye -Chief Consulting Officer at KKD Consulting
Edmund Olotu -CEO, G-PayAfrica
Femi Akinware – CEO, Tagattitude
Rick May – Chairman, GlobalMpay
Praveen Sheety – Nokia, West Africa
Mayank Sharma – VP Africa, Comviva
James Agada -CTO, Computer Warehouse Group.
Thuranira Kinagwi – Craft Sillicon, Kenya

 

Speakers from across the world will deliberate and proffer solutions that will  radically change the present situation and position Africa’s unbanked population to benefit from the growing global economy.

Join solutions providers, technologist, international development experts, regulators, Micro finance experts, financial services providers, mobile money providers, Mobile network providers, agency Bankers and other leading subject matter experts to chart the way forward at the UNBANKED AFRICA SUMMIT – 2011.

 

 

DELEGATE FEE:

Early  Bird Registration:399 usd

Late registration:500 usd

 

Orientals Hotel.

Lekki, Lagos – Nigeria.

July 14,2011.

 

HTC Sensation Review – The First Dual Core Phone from HTC

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While some people had presumed that the Desire S was to be HTC´s replacement for the 2010 smash hit Desire smartphone, it turned out that the Sensation was to be the company´s flagship device for 2011. The Sensation marks the introduction of some of the latest technological developments into HTC´s highly popular range of Android phones and at the time of its release is only really rivalled in terms of features by the equally impressive Samsung Galaxy S2.

 

Screen and Entertainment

The Sensation is a larger phone than the earlier Desire and more closely resembles the later Desire HD. The Sensation features a spacious 4.3″ Super LCD screen that offers all of the right credentials to make this an ideal phone for all forms of visual entertainment. This is also one of the first smartphones to come with a qHD resolution offering much higher picture quality than earlier WVGA devices.

 

The screen is made from Gorilla Glass for added protection and supports multitouch input. There are also an accelerometer and a gyroscopic sensor providing you with some interesting physical controls for games and apps on the Sensation, and also allowing you to rotate the interface with ease between portrait and landscape.

The Sensation comes with an excellent media player with good support for music and video and the phone also supports the playback of HD video content. Streaming video content is supported from websites like YouTube and with fast data connections you can enjoy these videos without too many interruptions. You can also enjoy video content from the Sensation on a larger screen thanks to the support for DLNA Wi-Fi and the inclusion of an MHL AV link.

 

The phone also comes with good support for music playback and includes an FM radio. A standard headphone socket allows you to listen to music or watch videos on public transport without annoying fellow commuters. The phone can provide you with up to 32GB of storage space for media and other content with 8GB included with the phone.

 

Camera

The Sensation features an excellent 8 megapixel camera which comes with a dual LED flash, touch focus, face detection and features like geo-tagging. This is also one of the first phone cameras to come with 1080p video recording support so that you can record your own HD videos with ease. You can upload these to share with friends online, along with any photos taken on the Sensation, with services such as Facebook and Picasa.

 

The camera also features a new Instant Capture feature that ensures there is no delay between pressing the button and capturing the image. There are many times using older phone cameras when there is a perfect moment that you wish to capture in photographic form only for this moment to have passed by the time the shutter has done its job. Because of this, unless it was a posed photo, you never end up with the image you desired but a blurry and confused image. This new Instant Capture feature ensures that you get the image that you want, when you want it, by removing the delay between the button press and the image capture.

 

OS and Messaging

The Sensation runs on Android Gingerbread and also features an updated version of the HTC Sense interface. With HTC Sense you are provided with excellent threaded SMS and email support as well as integration for social networks such as Facebook. Sense also provides you with Friend Stream which can combine all of your social networking accounts into one easy to use system, providing you with updates from friends and contacts on all of your social networking sites.

In conjunction with the camera on the Sensation you can also easily share photos and videos with these friends. You can share pictures and videos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and even upload your own videos to YouTube.

 

Connectivity and Online Features

Because of the excellent 3G and Wi-Fi on offer you can make use of these excellent messaging features as well as all of the other online features of the Sensation. The web browser on the Sensation now provides a much more enjoyable web browsing experience with multi-window browsing and smoother video playback thanks to the latest Adobe Flash support. There is also a quick lookup tool to send you straight to Wikipedia or YouTube to find an article or video about something of interest that you may have stumbled across.

The Sensation comes with Google Search to help you find what you are looking for online, and also comes with other Google features like Gmail and YouTube support. You can also chat on instant messaging clients such as Google Talk, Facebook Chat and many other IM apps available from Android Market.

 

Power

The Sensation is one of the most powerful smartphones released by HTC to date in terms of hardware. This is the first dual core phone from HTC and they have bucked the initial trend of dual core 1GHz processors and gone straight to a speedier 1.2GHz processor for their debut dual core. This provides far greater speed and efficiency over the earlier wave of dual core smartphones such as the LG Optimus 2X and Motorola Atrix.

The Sensation comes with 768MB RAM to complement this which doe provide plenty of memory to handle all apps and features with ease, although it is less than the 1GB RAM found on phones like the Samsung Galaxy S2. The Sensation also features Adreno graphics acceleration making it more than capable of handling the most intensive videos and apps that are on offer.

 

Summary

The Sensation is the first dual core phone from HTC and the most highly powered Sense powered smartphone yet released. If you have ever enjoyed using an HTC phone, like the earlier Desire or Legend handsets, then you will enjoy the Sensation as it provides the best that the Taiwanese manufacturer has to offer.

 

Principle highlights include the phenomenal qHD Super LCD screen that gives an unsurpassed level of picture quality for all of the intensive and visual features you would expect from a modern high end smartphone. The updated Google OS and Sense interface also introduce some nice new additions to web browsing and social networking and the Sensation features one of the best phone cameras on offer thanks to its 1080p video recording and Instant Capture feature.

 

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

Microsoft Imagine Cup 2011, Tekedia is Disappointed: No sub-Sahara African (Black) Judge

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We are not playing any race card here. Far from it. But we have watched most of the programs organized by Microsoft. They get blacks into the mold just to make governments feel happy to buy Windows. But when it comes to capacity development, Microsoft cares not. For all the noise in this company, it has not done much for Africa. Tekedia is truly disappointed with Microsoft.

 

Microsoft refused to build a lab in Africa even as it sees growth. It is doubling its salesmen daily in Africa while it builds innovation centers in Asia. Till today, Microsoft has no single research center in Africa. They just think we do not have it and we are good to borrow and buy their software.

 

Ok. they spend few thousands to refurbish some labs in East Africa. Yes, that is a university lab. We mean Microsoft lab or design center, Microsoft does not care.

 

Case in point. In the just concluded Imagine Cup final, there is no black sub-Sahara African that could qualify as a judge. No representative from Africa, we mean a black African. In other words, Microsoft never really cares what we do. We usually smile at ISPON members of Nigeria that are largely software merchants but parade themselves as software practitioners. When no black man from Africa is considered qualified enough to travel to judge these kids, that should tell them that selling Microsoft products do not make them experts.

 

Yet, African newspapers will give them free press and they will deceive governments making all think they are adding value.

 

Except Barry Dwolatzky, from South Africa, a white man, no other African made it.

 

This is the list of the judges and that has become how Microsoft operates. But if it to launch one product where they will rake sales revenue, then we will get experts call.

 

But think of Google. They are genuinely interested in building capacity. They use our people and mix them with their people. That way, we get better.  Shame to Microsoft !

 

[Breaking News] Tekedia Receives Multiple Google Plus Invitations for our Readers

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Yes, we are now the respected platform of tech in Africa. Google just confirmed it. We were invited to preview this Google plus.  To cap it, they sent us multiple invitations to give our readers.

 

Starting tomorrow, all the people that sent their emails will receive the links. We have 20 invitations.

 

We apologize for the confusion initially. This is what happens when many people are running a ship from more than ten locations.

 

Now, send your email and when we reach 20 , that will be it.

 

Please this is FREE and we are not selling anything. And it is first come, first serve .

 

You will receive the link tomorrow.  We want to do it once and then conclude. Please when you sign, we will appreciate if you can come back and comment your link. We want Google to know we indeed gave it out to our readers.  

 

Top 5 Attributes of the BlackBerry Bold 9900

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It doesn’t lose its shape

The new Bold 9900 is very similar though better aesthetically than the previous version. It loses the horrible fake leather back and replaces it with a form of carbon fibre- much more stylish. The device keeps its QWERTY curved shape and the screen shape, and though the screen manages to grow by .2inches the BlackBerry manages to get thinner and is now a slim 10.5mm – the thinnest BlackBerry ever.

 

Its screen

The new Bold 9900 has a wonderful new screen featuring Liquid Graphics which is a 640×480 offering and so good for a screen of its size – 2.8inches. This screen is a capacitive touch screen and does feel wonderful and accurate. It is also a good quality screen and colours are well represented on it. Overall this is a huge improvement in display terms on the other screens BlackBerry has made and especially the touch screens.

 

Processing Power

The new BlackBerry has a new engine, in fact the new engine is double the power of the previous versions of the device – it is a 1.2GHz processing goliath that is capable of all playing business applications that BlackBerry users will ever want.

The power plant is well able to multi task and browse, as well as playing the heaviest business applications BlackBerry users will need to edit and use on the move.

 

Camera

Though not a large camera the 5 megapixel snapper of the BlackBerry Bold is more than adequate and comes with a surprisingly good autofocus feature. BlackBerry has never been acclaimed for their cameras, however this one is a good attempt and BlackBerry can hold their head reasonably high. It also has a 720p record feature which looks good on the 2.8inch screen it must be said, and is a perfect pixilation size for it.

 

OS7

BlackBerry OS7 is also an improvement on the previous versions of the company’s operating system. It is fast and responsive and you could not really fault it; it is a leap where the others were a step.

 

The Bold comes with all the necessary gear for a business person and has all the favourites like Documents2Go and of course BlackBerry messaging for encrypted messaging and email. OS7 makes the most of this and is a great forward move for BlackBerry who will no doubt see this device become as their most popular for a long time.

 

The Bold 9900 sticks well enough to the traditional BlackBerry design to make it popular with fans of the phone series, while at the same time offering some great new features into the mix. This is one of the fastest BlackBerry phones yet, and certainly the best touchscreen offering that RIM have produced. At the same time, it offers a perfect combination of touchscreen and physical interaction.

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