Three MIT students pitched an idea: travel to India and help local students apply technical knowledge to local problems. Technology companies signed up and supported them. A few weeks ago, they won three awards in the MIT Global Challenge competition. They will be visiting selected Indian campuses teaching students the latest skills they mastered at MIT. Recently, I traveled to Kenya as part of an African Union-funded research. I had wanted to know why some… More »
What is a Tablet? OK, Tablet PC if The OS is Windows Mobile.
Unless it is powered by Windows, it cannot be called Tablet PC. For Android tablet, it is simply Tablet. So it is technically wrong to write “Android tablet PC” though it is fine to write “Windows tablet PC”.
Ok. Leave that semantics out. What is a tablet PC?
Tablet PCs are specialty mobile machines which can be operated by a stylus or touchscreen apparatus. There are basically two kinds of tablet PCs-slate and convertible tablets. Users operate slate computers with a pen or stylus. Convertible tablets offer both touch screen and keyboard capabilities.
Tablet PC upgrades brought improved touchscreen recognition and handwriting interpretation capabilities. New models enable users to write directly onto their desktops. They simplify lives and bring freedom and play to the next level.
Ovim tablet is a tablet. It is powered by Android. It is a highly advanced machine with knowledge interface that makes work easy. It is also a platform for play. You can do anything any modern tablet can do with Ovim. If you have not used a tablet, it may be time to try one. Tablets are better than laptops.
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Mobiflock Monitors and Manages Children’s Phone Usage To Protect Them From Harm
Mobiflock gives parents the ability to monitor and manage their children’s phone use and therefore protect them from harm. Mobiflock makes cell phones safe for children by giving parents the visibility and tools to manage their children’s phone use, and so protect them from harm.
Mobiflock is easy to install and use. A small programme – or application – is downloaded on to your child’s phone. Then you use an online dashboard to set up security levels and alerts, and to get a bird’s eye view of how your child is using their phone. Including the time and money spent.
The Mobiflock service allows you to:
- Find out who your kids are contacting and who is contacting them. And what they are saying to each other.
- Control who your child contacts, who contacts them, time and money spent, information sent and received.
- Locate where a missing or stolen phone, or even where your child is. And delete private info from a missing or stolen phone.
- Receive alerts about inappropriate content; cyber-bullying; sexting; predatory activity; spending too much time or money online.
iWarrior is a Fun Game That Puts You In The Role of Protecting Villagers from Wild Animals
iWarrior is a game that puts you in the role of protecting your village from Africa’s most feared wild animals. It is a casual game with great African art and sounds.
Take advantage of the iPhone or iPod touch accelerometer and multi-touch functionality to defend your village by feeding and driving away the animals before they crash it and feed on your livestock and garden! From the thundering Elephants, the camouflaging Lions, the swift Cheetahs, silly Hyenas and others, experience the wild on your iPhone or iPod touch.
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iWarrior is a casual game with great African art and sounds.
With its simple intense game play, iWarrior puts you in the role of protecting your village from Africa’s most feared wild animals.
Take advantage of the iPhone or iPod touch accelerometer and multi-touch functionality to defend your village by feeding and driving away the animals before they crash it and feed on your livestock and garden!
From the thundering Elephants, the camouflaging Lions, the swift Cheetahs, silly Hyenas and others, experience the wild on your iPhone or iPod touch.Features:
– Quality African Art and Sound.
– Natural wild with realistic behavior and sound of the actual animal.
– Accelerometer gesture control. E.g. Thrust iPhone or iPod touch forward to throw weapon, use tilt to move left and right.
– Multi-touch control: Swipe left and right for movement, tap to throw object
– Stunning natural effects e.g. rain and thunder.
– Breaking and shaking of environment by huge wild animals.
– Multiple levels of increasing difficulty
– Personal highscore system
– Game could be played while listening to your iPod music. (Launch game while playing music in iPod. Goto Help/Options and disable sound)
– Realistic animal behavior – e.g. Camouflaging.
Learning Hausa Goes to iPhone and iPad – The Audio Quality Is Simply Great
Here is the message from Nkyea on Hausa which is now in iPad and iPhone.
As we continue to help more and more people to learn African languages on Macs, PCs and mobile devices, Nkyea Learning Systems has just released its new iPhone and iPad language app called Basic Hausa today on the Apple App Store. Basic Hausa joins the company’s growing list of African language and cultural apps, which includes Nkyea Twi Primer, Nkyea Twi Phrasebook, Adinkra E-Cards, My Twi Name and Basic Swahili.
Basic Hausa contains more than 1500 Hausa words and phrases divided in 18 lessons. The app will help a complete beginner to acquire basic competence in the language. Basic Hausa is packed with high quality audio instructions in the Kananci dialect by a Hausa language professional from Kano in Nigeria. Kananci is the standard Hausa dialect.