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Nokia’s “Create for Millions” Contest – One Million Euros on Play for Developers

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Submit your best Series 40 Java or web apps in Nokia’s ‘Create for Millions’ contest to win your share of cash and prizes, worth 1 million euros.

 

Reflecting Nokia’s stated strategy to deliver mobile phones and services for the next billion, there will also be a tremendous need to offer outstanding apps for use on those devices. This includes apps for Series 40 phones that inform, educate, entertain, and bring people closer together. Nokia’s Series 40 phones have experienced more than 35 per cent growth in download volumes in the past two months, making up about a quarter of the total downloads from Nokia’s Ovi Store. Now is your chance to make the most of this growing opportunity.

 

Contest Categories

The Create for Millions contest features four categories where you can bring out your best work for Nokia’s latest Series 40 phones:

In the Know – we’re seeking your Series 40 web apps focusing
on news and location-based information.

Fun & Games – we’re eager to try your Series 40 Java games and
entertainment apps that will fill those spare moments during the day with amusing,
unforgettable diversions.

Emotional Closeness – this is your chance to submit social networking apps that are developed either as Series 40 Java apps or web apps.

Access to Knowledge – we want your life improvement apps (e.g., education, health, etc.), and in this

 

The deadline to enter Create for Millions is 20 September 2011.

 

Where to enter

 

VC4Africa Connects Entrepreneurs and Innovators to Investors

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VC4Africa is a platform connecting entrepreneurs and innovators to investors.  Entrepreneurs post their ventures’ profiles to the platform which enables other users and investors to rate them. Investors can then contact entrepreneurs to inquire more and discuss investing.

 

It is largely a platform that enables members to organise meetups in their regions. Entrepreneurs looking for investment and investors looking for African ventures to invest in.

 

The platform is straightforward and user-friendly. Its popularity also means that it is the place to be for an entrepreneur looking for investment of for an investor looking for investmet opportunities.

 

VC4Africa.com believes that entrepreneurship should be the main driver in Africa’s economic growth, in particular the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that provide much of Africa’s employment, income and hope for a better future. SMEs contribute around two thirds of national income and provide the foundation for a stable middle class in many African countries. They help form strong communities and are a powerful force for poverty reduction. SMEs play a significant role in building economic stability and sustainability for the future.

 

As Africa enters the new millennium it faces a challenge to provide better economic opportunities for citizens through sustained growth and alleviating the poverty that has long plagued the continent. The NEPAD (New Economic Platform for African Development) and the United Nations Millennium Goals for 2015, to which the EU-countries have all subscribed, have set out ambitious aims in this respect. The World Economic Forum in Davos and the G8 have also made the commitment to stimulate private and public investments in Africa. However, it’s our belief that the most meaningful impact will still come from grassroots entrepreneurship and local efforts. It is important to support this bottom-up approach of citizens working to tackle local challenges and build on the idea that any person anywhere in the world might have the skills, knowledge and resources needed to make a difference.

HOMEMAKERSmobi is South Africa’s Largest Mobile Directory of Home Improvement Products

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HOMEMAKERS has for the past two decades developed a unique bouquet of media opportunities, enabling advertisers to communicate to discerning homeowners in the major urban areas of South Africa. Striving to bring consumers and service providers together, HOMEMAKERS is the number one portal for home improvement in South Africa.

Since the first 16-page publication was launched in Johannesburg in 1982, the company has become the market leader in direct advertising, with 10 national and specialised home lifestyle magazines. Boasting a phenomenal verified free distribution (VFD) of over 1.2 million magazines monthly, HOMEMAKERSonline is the best choice for both advertisers and homeowners in South Africa.

HOMEMAKERS Expo

As a natural extension of these successful direct response magazines, the first HOMEMAKERS Expo was launched in 1994 and currently the company hosts five shows in South Africa each year.

HOMEMAKERSonline

HOMEMAKERSonline is a portal for both advertisers as well as South African homeowners seeking home improvement products, services and advice.

HOMEMAKERSmobi

Ever needed a product or service for your home, but didn’t know where to find it? Then HOMEMAKERSmobi is the answer. It’s the largest mobile directory with thousands of home improvement product and service listings – a first for South Africa

Wireless Charging Industry Needs Common Standard To Spur Adoption

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Although wireless charging is poised for major growth in 2011 and beyond – growing to $23.7 billion by 2015 up from just $123.9 million in 2010 – it will take several years for manufacturers to fully implement the technology in their devices, says a new report from IHS iSuppli.

 

The low-power wireless charging segment has become a two-horse race—WPC and the alliance of Powermat. By January 2011, each camp had significant accomplishments in the ecosystem. However, there are still limited commercial products available in the market.

 

One way that we believe that the market can spur adoption is the formation of a common standard that would ensure interoperability among the solutions being developed. Currently, most of the solutions on the market are based on proprietary technology, so one offering won’t work with the charger pad of another.

 

A common goal of the wireless charging industry also is to provide greener, more environmentally friendly solutions. A universal solution not only will fit the power profiles of various devices, the solution itself will be intelligent – shutting down a device automatically after it is fully charged, not wasting power when no transmitters are detected on the surface, and flexible enough to be placed in any position on a charging pad.

 

The ecosystem and industry alliances are rapidly forming for the low power devices. It’s now up to OEMs to deliver products with beneficial solution out to the public and make consumers aware.

 

Until these measures are taken, the wireless charging segment will remain fragmented and consumers will hesitate to embrace any solution that might not be promoted in the long term.

 

Allan Gray Orbis Foundation – A Development Catalyst in South Africa

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The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation is a non-profit organisation that was established in 2005 as an education and development catalyst to assist a generation of high growth entrepreneurial change agents to bring about job creation in Southern Africa.

 

The Foundation focuses on educational and experiential methods to harness the potential of bright young minds. Through its highly researched learning programmes, it seeks to equip talented young individuals with the skills, attitudes and motivation to become successful high growth entrepreneurs.

 

The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation offers full high school scholarships that cover tuition, hostel fees and living expenses at leading South African high schools. If you are currently in Grade 6 and have big plans for your future and the future of Southern Africa, you can apply for a scholarship now.

 

If you are in Grade 12 or your 1st year at university, you could qualify for a full undergraduate bursary from the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation.

 

Apply for an undergraduate bursary now.

 

The Foundation seeks to promote high growth entrepreneurship in Southern Africa and to foster a generation of catalysts for change in the county. The undergraduate bursaries come in the form of fellowship studies which cover university tuition, residence, book allowance and living allowance. If you are awarded with this undergraduate bursary, your fellowship studies also include additional work in the form of business and entrepreneurial skills development programmes and you will have access to mentorship to help you achieve your goals.

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