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Tuvitu – Mobile Platform That Enables Users To Personalize

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Tuvitu is a mobile platform that contains content-rich mini-applications (widgets) which enable users to personalise the information they browse via their mobile phone. Tuvitu is Swahili for ‘small things’.

 

The team comprises a group of partners and visionary individuals who have been in the mobile space for over 6 years. This team is charged with ensuring that Tuvitu scales as a platform and puts Africa on the map. These partners are the Shimba Technologies, a Payment Platform, OEMs (Nokia), MNOs & the various content providers who have chosen to take this journey with us.

 

This product comes from Shimba Technologies. This company provides channel development, information dissemination and transaction processing of key content. Our business objective is the development of tailor made corporate mobile related solutions as well as products for the wider mass market.

 

This service is free and works in many phones.

 

Will Tuvitu work on my phone?

Tuvitu works on thousands of different device models that run Java (most phones do).
If you are using a Nokia device visit the Ovi Store to download Tuvitu. If you are uncertain whether your mobile phone is Java-enabled, try installing Tuvitu.

 

How much does it cost? It’s Free!

Tuvitu is a completely free application, partially ad-sponsored, which means you don’t pay us
anything to use it. In order to use Tuvitu, you need access to the Internet from your mobile phone. Tuvitu was designed to minimize the amount of data transferred to keep your data costs low;however, you may still want to consider an unlimited data plan to keep costs down.

 

How do I get Tuvitu? From m.tuvitu.com

Tuvitu is a tiny application that you download and install on your phone. Start by opening your phone’s Internet browser (usually the globe icon) at this address: http://m.tuvitu.com
Click on the ‘tuvitu’ link and confirm all pop-ups appearing on your phone.

 

 

My Social Mobile Delivers Voiced Facebook and Twitter Feeds

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With the growth of data networks and the web, texting/SMS has been left to wander in oblivion. SMS is still a major form of communication due to its simplicity. However it has not evolved to the next generation of communication media with the growth and linkages to online social networks and the likes. There is still a massive opportunity to take this simple yet efficient technology to the next level. MSM is looking at that opportunity.

 

My Social Mobile (MSM) is an application that delivers Voiced alerts from Facebook/Twitter as you listen to your favorite Music. Hear who has tagged you in a photo, likes your status, re-tweeted your tweets among other great updates.

 

This offers a really good way to stay connected, but it can also be addictive. Imagine getting all the feeds from Facebook and Twitter, you may have time for anything else.

 

This is where you can get the apps and the instructions are as follows:

Transform your phone into the latest social tool:

  1. Get automated voice alerts from Facebook & Twitter while listening to your favorite music or radio.
  2. Get alerts from Facebook when selected Friends update their status, you’re Tagged, a Friend comments on your status or photo & and much more…
  3. Get alerts from Twitter when selected people you are Following update their status, when you are Mentioned, when Your Tweets are Re-Tweeted & and much more..

 

Internet Business Valuations Are Sky High, But The Sector Is Healthy

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If you have been following LinkedIn since it was listed in the stock market in the United States, you will know that investors are betting that Internet stocks are the real deal now. Originally planned for $45, the stock got as much as $122.70 before it began to lose value. It has since settled around $78. Tekedia thinks that the stock will finally come down to $50 which is truly the right valuation for the company. It is still high as it is now.

 

Yet, what is interesting is that investors are laser focused on the stocks they put money.  In the Second Market, they want Facebook, Zynga, Twitter and Groupon and then ignore the thousands of other companies. The whole model is to value and indeed overvalue some selected companies that have real values. This is as Economist explained:

 

But trouble may be brewing out of sight: although 80% of publicly-listed tech companies are trading within their historical valuation ranges and recent IPOs are few in number, valuations in the private market are skyrocketing too. There is a lot of hype surrounding the upcoming IPOs of high-profile Internet companies such as Facebook (which is valued at around US$76bn, more than Boeing or Ford), Zynga, a virtual gaming company valued at around US$9bn, and Groupon, which sells online coupons to its subscribers and is valued at around US$15bn-20bn. By contrast, Twitter, a highly popular social-networking site also tipped for an IPO in the near future, is valued at around US$7.7bn, although it has yet to find a profitable business model.

 

Yet, it is very important to know that investors are not careless as they were in 2000s. They are picking winners in each sector. That model is what will prevent bubble. The rerun of the early 2000s is not coming because the investors are smarter.

 

We think that any anticipation of Internet bubble is premature. What is happening in the industry is consolidation where few companies get all the attention and the investors focus to get some parts of them. And they go for the market leaders.

 

 

Automotive Semiconductor Content To Grow 15% in 2011

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IC Insights reports that automotive semiconductor market will have a great 2011.According to its latest report, obtained by Tekedia, the average value of semiconductor contents in automotive will grow by 15% from 2010. In reality, it is still a small contributor to a new car value. At $350, semiconductor content is just a marginal cost for new cars that start in the range of around $16,000.

 

Semiconductor content per vehicle varies based on make and model, trim level, environmental concerns, and regional government regulations.  But, in 2011, the trickle-down effect of technology in automobiles is having a greater impact than originally anticipated.  Sophisticated electronic systems, that were the exclusive domain of luxury-class vehicles a few years ago, have become more commonplace in mid-range and lower-priced automobiles.  Consequently, in the mid-year update to its 2011 IC Market Drivers report, IC Insights has raised its forecast for average semiconductor content per automobile to $350 in 2011.  This represents a 15% increase from the $305 average in 2010

 

Increasingly, microchips are powering many devices in the car. Most cars are going electronic with locks, keys, and previous mechanical functions now electronically done. From audio to sensors for car airbags to rollover, semiconductor has found a new growth area in automobiles.

 

Also, due to regulations, the barrier of entry remains high when compared to consumer electronics. That means the major players in this sector will continue to reap benefits even as regulations set new standards that will actually see more semiconductor products in cars.

 

photo credit/IC Insights

Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Nigeria Is Your Industrial Accelerator

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The primary objective of Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) is to assist in accelerating the industrialization of Nigerian economy through finding industrial utilization for the country’s raw materials and upgrading indigenous production techniques.  Besides, some government agencies and non-government international organisations occasionally commission the Institute to carry out research works .

Some services:

Apart from its in-house R & D activities, the Institute renders services within the framework of its technical capability and cooperation with the public. Through these services, it puts its human resources and expertise, as well as its infrastructural facilities, at the disposal of real and prospective industrialists within and outside Nigeria. Thus it assists them in solving their problems concerning raw materials, process know-how, machinery and equipment, etc. The services rendered to the public and external corporate organisations are:

  • Sponsored research
  • Contract research
  • Analytical services
  • Consultancy services
  • Engineering services
  • Technology transfer (Licensing, group and individual training, capital acquisition and training)
  • Industrial extension services
  • Textile testing and quality control
  • Technological and industrial information sourcing and supply.

 

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