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Apple And Samsung Battle On Copyright Suit – It is Now Tit for Tat.

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The legal battle between Apple and Samsung is heating up. Apple is complaining of harassment in Samsung’s latest bid to get an early look at Apple’s next iPhone. The issue stems from a suit filed by Apple in April in the U.S. District Court of Northern California accusing Samsung of copying its designs.

 

The judge in that case ordered Samsung to show Apple prototypes of its unreleased smartphones and tablets. The lawsuit shows side-by-side comparisons of the Apple iPhone 3GS model, released in June 2009, and the Galaxy S i9000 model, released in March 2010.

 

This latest move by Samsung seems a bit of a tit-for-tat maneuver and a questionable move at that, given that Samsung is one of Apple’s biggest suppliers.  

 

Tekedia pities Samsung as they will lose their supply contract with Apple. They need to manage this problem and avoid the temptation of fighting the big Apple in this case. Let them settle because Apple could cut them off.

Global Semiconductor Market To Hit $315 Billion in 2011 – A 5.1% Annual Growth

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The global semiconductor market will hit  $315 billion in 2011, which will make it an increase of 5.1 percent on 2010, according to Gartner, a market research firm.

The market research firm thinks that smartphone and tablets will lead the chip supply while many other sectors will lag. Together smartphone and tablets will control more than 64% of chip growth from 2011 to 2013. They also stated that Japan disaster will affect the total chip supply and growth in 2011.

“The disaster in Japan clearly had an impact on the semiconductor market, and supply chain behavior, but it is less than initially feared,” said Peter Middleton, principal research analyst at Gartner. “In response, in the last two weeks of March, vendors stepped up efforts to secure supply in the face of uncertainty and potential shortfalls — leading to some double ordering which continued into the second quarter. We think vendors were cautious with their second quarter guidance, and we expect the majority will exceed those estimates.”

“Although the impact is less than feared, we are anticipating some residual effects in the third quarter of 2011 as friction in the supply chain may impact some production and some surprises may occur,” Mr. Middleton said. “However, once third-quarter trends are established and supply chain participants are satisfied that all issues are understood and production is normalized, we expect an effort to draw down inventory, which will weaken the semiconductor market in late 2011 and early 2012.”

 

Gartner forecasts worldwide application-specific standard product (ASSP) revenue to reach $79.7 billion in 2011 and grow to $99.4 billion by the end of 2015.

Nigerian Developers Prefer Android – A Study Finds 50%

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Caution: This is not a scientific data. This is more of raise your hands study. The data was gathered by Fasmicro contingent during yesterday Mobile Monday Lagos. Yet, it is not far from the truth. Google is pushing Android to a level never imagined.

 

If we have to ask a question without all the science in data collection: where do you think people will go and find that answer? Mobile Monday. So, if they raised their hands as they did, we think that is a valid study. We thank Fasmicro Emeka Nwankwo for supplying this data. He was there live and quickly ran the numbers.

 

The questions and the answers:

What Platforms are you going to develop for?
Nokia 35%

Android 50%,

RIM 20%

iPhone 2%

(Note some developers opted for multiple Platforms)
What mobile phones do you use?
Rim 40%

Nokia 50%

Android 8%

iPhone 2%

The African Web Summit Comes To Lagos – Sept 14/15

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A 2-day event packed full of seminars, workshops and networking sessions all given by industry relevant business leaders and world renowned speakers from multi-national companies including representatives from Google, Facebook, Twitter and IBM.

 

The African Web Summit is a Social Media, Technology and Digital Conference that aims to be a driving force in the digital revolution on the Continent of Africa. The conference’s focus is to increase the digital and technological confidence of African business leaders, in line with other ‘Developed Countries’. The AWS will have keynote speakers, networking and workshops. Some of the topics explored will particular relevant for Startups/Entrepreneurs, Social Media/iMarketing professionals and Gaming and Software Developers. There has been substantial interest from the Banking industry, Mobile Technology and Venture Capitalist as well.

 

The conference will be held in Lagos on Sept 14-15, 2011

 

We like this statement credited to an Ericsson executive

 

“Africa is on the cusp of a major revolution powered by mobile broadband. Since the late 90s, mobile telephony has substantially changed market dynamics on the continent and rekindled an almost forgotten spirit of free market enterprise in our economies. With the advent of social media, we are beginning to see Africa take the lead in utilizing the web in previously unknown ways – you only have to look to Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Ivory Coast to see the potential being unlocked. At the inaugural edition of the African Web Summit we have a major opportunity to explore some of these triggers and forecast what will be the barriers and drivers to a web driven 21st Century Africa. You have to be there.”

 

Simply, the objectives of this conference are as follows:

  • To educate, showing companies and individuals the value of Social Media as an advertising and branding tool.
  • To aid in the Digital Revolution of African as an emerging market.
  • To inform as a means of sharing news worthy information and a device news agencies and individuals can use to circumvent the perceived failures of rolling 24hr news.
  • To run various workshops for startups, software and game developers and iMarketing
  • To continue the digital awareness of a continent trying to keep up with the rest of the developed nations. (The Egyptian revolution comes to mind.)
  • To promote investments in the African technology sector.

Airtel Nigeria Launches “BConnected” – RIM Continues Its War Against Fake BB Devices

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Airtel Nigeria has launched a new BlackBerry subscriber  bundle in Nigeria. It is called ‘BConnected’  and offers  ‘BlackBerry Messenger’ which is a real time messaging and chat service  with interface to social media networks like, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. It also offers access to monthly, weekly or daily plans on the expiration of a 30 day free trial period. In future, this product could have gaming from the new acquisition, Scoreloop.

 

The cost of the bundle is N1,580 monthly without e-mail services which most other BlackBerry services include. Yet, that cost is lower than the cost of the standard product which goes for N3,000.

 

Blackberry continues to lose market share due to fake devices that are sold in Nigeria. While the rich and corporate buy the original device, most buy the fake ones that are imported from Asia. This fake device does not have warranty and most times do not last as long as the main one.

 

Adverts that reads in part below is common as RIM continues to educate customers to buy the genuine BB:

 

”Always look for the seal of authenticity whenyou buy a new BlackBerry device. ”This guarantees that you are buying from an authorised dealer and that your new BlackBerry device comes with the peace of mind of a 12 month warranty”.

 

Blackberry continues to lose market share globally not just due to pirated versions of their products, but due to competition from Android and iPhone. BlackBerry commands a 14.8% share of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the fifth most popular device manufacturer after Nokia, Samsung, LG, and Apple. The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies

 

But recently, Blackberry is working hard to jumpstart its business with acquisition of Scoreloop, a gaming company. Scoreloop was founded in March 2008 and has raised more than $2.8m. The initial plan was to provide  multiplayer challenge games with a focus on iPhone. But it deviated and then moved into the domain where community of developers could work to add socialgraph and interactions on their games. This include the scoring sheet, messaging, virtual currency, etc. As they made progress, Android evolved as the centerpiece of their strategy as more works seemed to make it the primary operating system. But with time, it supports all the leading mobile OS. Scoreloop supports Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and Bada (Samsung) operating systems. We are not sure if the HP Palm WebOS is supported by Scoreloop. Also,  Symbian has no information.

 

RIM will bring the Scoreloop technology to the blackberry. This has a potential to make the Blackberry Social Platform better. Scoreloop technology has made it a strong contender for the consolidation wave as more companies are looking for social games in their mobile ecosystems. When DeNA bought Ngmoco in a $400m deal, it made it clear that the industry was not timid on games. Also the Electronic Arts bought Chillingo for $29m while GREE went for OpenFeint in excess of $100m.

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