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[Apply] Legatum Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Opens – $100,000 Grand Prize

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The 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship officially opened for entries on May 31st 2011 and will conclude in early December with an expanded Gala Awards event in conjunction with a high-profile conference on entrepreneurship. Two more countries – Liberia and Senegal – have been added to the competition for a total of 17 participating countries in all.

 

Applications must be submitted on line and winning companies will be judged by a world-class panel of experts for excellence in business performance, strategies for growth, visionary leadership, innovation, and core values. Successful companies will demonstrate the power of business in creating impact within their communities, by fostering job creation and improving living standards and prosperity overall.

 

From the Longitude Prize in the 18th century to Alfred Nobel’s laureate awards at the start of the 20th century, the power of prize programmes to catalyse innovation and inspiration is undeniable. Such prizes serve a purpose beyond recognition and reward alone – also raising awareness, creating role models and igniting ambition. From our experience with previous prize programmes within Africa and globally, we have met remarkable entrepreneurs who never lost belief in themselves, even when confronted by overwhelming challenges but persevered to bring their ideas to fruition. As such entrepreneurs work to create businesses that meet the needs of those around them and by doing so raise the living standards of their communities while also creating something of lasting value for themselves, their employees, their communities and their nations. The Legatum Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship is honoured to provide a platform upon which they may continue to inspire a new generation of African entrepreneurs.


The objectives of the Legatum Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship are:

  1. To promote the value of entrepreneurship as a driving force of today’s Africa
  2. To celebrate the standards of business excellence within Africa
  3. To encourage small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to embrace the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship
  4. To build strong networks of African entrepreneurs as a source of learning and sharing of best practice
  5. To attract more venture capital inflows towards good businesses in sub-Saharan Africa

 

2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship

Announcements regarding this year’s programmme will be made shortly and applications will open in May. The Gala Awards Banquet will take place in early December in Nairobi.

Toshiba PC Business Powerred By Portege Grew 5.3% in Q1 2011 Worldwide

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Toshiba is a behemoth that does many things.  It makes nuclear plants, TVs, semiconductors, displays, and PCs of course. But right now what is driving it is not the huge contracts nuclear plants provide which have gone down as expected since  many countries began to cancel their orders after the recent Japanese crises.

 

The PC or computer business is hot right now.  Toshiba is raking billions from chips and displays as well but the laptop/PC business is leading the revivals. Yes the PC/laptop business  is back, courtesy of Portege. The 5th world’s largest shipper of PCs, Toshiba is a force. HP Acer and Dell have seen their sales drop, Toshiba computer business grew 5.3% due to Portege laptop, according to Gartner, a global market research company. Only Lenovo is shipping more laptops than Toshiba.

 

What is happening in Toshiba is the understanding of the need of business resilience. Companies must not depend on one product line. Yet, there must be a balance before a firm loses focus. That Toshiba could play in all these industries is a testament to the innovation in their corporate culture. But the PC or laptop will not save them, they need to get into tablets. Because that is now and the future.

Now Thunderbolt Gets a Challenger, PCI Express Will Debut in July

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The PCI Special Interest Group has concluded plans to in this July a cabled version of PCI Express that will challenge Thunderbolt Interconnect which was originally developed by Apple and Intel. Unlike Thunderbolt, this will be more open and optimal. The aim is to offer something that will provide better throughput I/O in tablets and notebooks.

 

The new cable will be based on PCIe 3.0 which supports up to 8 GTransfers/second. It likely will support a maximum of four parallel lanes for throughput up to 32 Gbits/s and distances no longer than three meters.

 

The new spec is aimed at consumer uses for desktop and mobile PCs and tablets as well as their peripherals such as external storage devices. The PCI SIG has a separate cable group, chartered in 2005, that has already delivered a spec for the 2.5 and 5 GT/s versions PCIe 1.1 and 2.0, supporting distances up to eight meters and aimed for use in servers and other data center equipment.

 

At about 32Gbps, it is a a generation ahead of the Thunderbolt if they can execute on it.

 

About Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is Intel’s latest interconnect technology that promises the next generation in transfer speeds, 10 Gbps. Thunderbolt-equipped motherboards or devices will have an Intel Thunderbolt controller chip that provides compatbility with a host of other connection technologies such as: VGA, DVI, HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire and eSATA.

 

About PCI Express

PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards. PCIe has numerous improvements over the aforementioned bus standards, including higher maximum system bus throughput, lower I/O pin count and smaller physical footprint, better performance-scaling for bus devices, a more detailed error detection and reporting mechanism, and native hot plug functionality. More recent revisions of the PCIe standard support hardware I/O virtualization.

Haptics Applications in Mobile Devices – Tekedia Intelligence Analysis. Now, You Can Feel The Man’s Skin During Online Dating

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Haptics is described as  a tactile feedback technology that takes advantage of a user’s sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user. For the smartphone or tablet, it is simply a technology that adds tactile sensations to gadgetry.  The vibration function during a video phone game is an application of haptics technology.

 

Imagine buying things in ebay.com and you can feel the texture of a cloth before you order it. That means you can feel and touch the leather of a new shoe before you hit BUT NOW. That extension of feel from virtual to demi-reality is what will make haptics a game changer.

 

Around the world, many companies are working on advanced haptics for smartphones and tablets. They need they will bring real touch to these devices than had ever been done. It is just like doctors doing abdominal surgery and the technology helping them to feel what their scissors are feeling.

 

The following are the leading companies in this field, based on Tekedia Intelligence research.

 

  • Pacinia – uses coating on phones to provide electrostatic properties. Doing that on a touchscreen will take it to the next level. This is what they call controlled static clig
  • Immersion. This company provides the vibrate functions phones in Nokia, LG and Samsung and ensures they vibrate when needed. Think about a video game that communicates with vibration of the phone when a goal is scored. It is a software that makes the phone vibration and that is haptics engineering
  • Senseg – feeling textures on screen. Now, you can feel the skin texture of your potential lover during online dating.
  • Artificial Muscle – this will enable expandable switches
  • Tactus Technology – this will morph like the way neuromorphic engineers morph biology on electronics circuits. But here it is screens that are being morphed.


Differentiate Between Mobile App from Mobile Internet – Which is Better?

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Today, someone wanted to know the differences between mobile apps and mobile internet. We explained. This is like the confusion between mobile banking and mobile  payment. You betcha but they are not the same. Mobile banking is taking banking to the mobile ecosystem while mobile payment has no need of banking. But it is confusing. So, we think you can learn something from the mobile apps and mobile internet.

 

According to WebOpedia, mobile apps is

 

a term used to describe Internet applications that run on smartphones and other mobile devices. Mobile applications usually help users by connecting them to Internet services more commonly accessed on desktop or notebook computers, or help them by making it easier to use the Internet on their portable devices. A mobile app may be a mobile Web site bookmarking utility, a mobile-based instant messaging client, Gmail for mobile, and many other applications.

 

Wikipedia explains that mobile internet refers to the use of Internet-connected applications, or browser-based access to the Internet from a mobile device – such as a smartphone or tablet PC – connected to a wireless network. Under this construct, a mobile website is just a website that has been optimized for mobile browsing. It can be reached through a phone’s web browser directly.

 

So between these two – mobile apps and mobile website, which one is better?

These are things to consider:

  • Cost. The apps may cost more to be developed and deployed
  • Presence – few go to apps store to check new information via their mobile devices. They still use the search engine
  • Web is not platform-sensitive. You build apps for one platform like Android or iOS. Any of those can be disrupted but the web will be here for a long time
  • Branding – you can brand better with apps than you can do with websites
  • Security – it all depends. A good app is secured and a website can also be secured. The risk is largely the same.

 

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