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Global Android Market Share – Possible Drivers for Embedded Systems

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To get the Android market share, we went back to the latest InMobi data, March 2011. Android is very strong and has already toppled iPhone OS. Note the conditions of this data as noted below:

 

Data in this report are sourced from our global mobile advertising network which served 31.9 billion impressions in March 2011. With 114 countries receiving over 10 million impressions in March 2011, we are able to claim one of the broadest and most representative networks in the world. Exact specifications are as follows:
• Global Available Impressions in March 2011: 31.9 billion
• Regions Represented: Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, and South America
• Countries Represented: 114 countries with over 10 million impressions in March 2011
• Base Measure: Available Impressions
• Reports: Market Summary, Manufacturer Share, OS Share, and Top Handsets & Connected Devices
• Time Periods: December 2010, March 2011
• Comparisons: March 2011 versus December 2010

 

The key stuff for us is what Android offers you in the market of embedded systems. This is very huge. Below as some projects you can build based on Android and you can get started immediately. Oh yes, your phone can configure easily any of these functions. Thanks to the all powerful ADK which is engineered for embedded systems.

 

  • RFID Android based supermarket inventory control—-using Android tablet to access and monitor inventory
  • Speed monitoring system for road safety——Android tablet interfaced with speed monitoring system
  • Security monitoring system or aid for security personnel—-In which Android tablet will be interfaced with wireless security cameras
  • Fuel or fluid level inventory control —–holding your tablet,you can monitor and control fluid level anywhere in the world
  • Automation and process control —interfacing sensors, relays,speed controllers etc to Android tablet through micro-controller wirelessly

 

Apps Store Paid Apps – You Need Authentication With Device IDs

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We have received many inquiries from people asking how they can submit PAID apps in the apps store. The simply fact is that counting as we noted before will not do the job. There are people that will click an app that will not finally download it. That was why we just took out the counter to avoid false impression.

 

What we want all developers for PAID apps is to map activation of their apps through device IDs. So, someone downloads the apps, the app will not work until he has paid. When he pays, he will be given a code based on that person’s device unique ID. That way, he cannot take the app to another device or use the code for another person. The engineers are testing this in Owerri and this seems to be fine. One app per device and app will not work until paid and activation code sent. This process does not need internet. What happens is that after the app is launched, the app will prompt the user to activate. Together with you, you will generate codes a priori for your apps and as they finish you generate more. We guarantee that you will not miss a single revenue based on our technology. The activation code is a concatenation of the ID and other numbers we will not reveal now.

 

To interface with the Fasmicro Apps Store through its API, you must have a valid device ID. If your phone has been rooted and/or has gone through a factory reset, it is possible for the phone’s device ID to one not recognized by the store. If this happens you will need to manually input a valid device ID into the application. We will help you get the ID.

Solving the Global Retirement Problems – A Need To Evaluate The New Nature Of Work

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Daily, we have become accustomed to reading about the many challenges America faces as a nation. It has unemployment problems, runaway federal deficit, real estate depression, health care crises and senior citizens that live longer. Yes, many see people living longer as a problem because we still operate industrial age economics with its archaic retirement system for a knowledge century.

 

Accordingly, when we look at what it will take to care for retirees over long stretch, economists get worried. From Germany to Japan, managing human longevity in the developed world has taken a central role in governments. On Sept 7, 2010, millions of people demonstrated in France over the government’s plan to change the unemployment age from 60 to 62.

 

But are these people really retiring, technically?

 

People retire at sixty years and then spend six hours a day on social media. These hours could have actually been redesigned to become work, if the system has mastered the constructs of the knowledge economy. When someone retires from running a small website and spends the number of hours we put on the social media, it simply shows our system is broken.

 

We fail to understand that in the knowledge era, someone could work far beyond seventy years. Yes, that old economic model of factory and farm economy that depended on physical energy is ending. Accordingly, the retirement age it produced should be replaced. I see no reason why a webmaster that maintains a website should retire from it and then spend 6 hours a day as a retiree on social media.

 

What the world needs is a new system that defines retirement based on the industry. In other words, we have to develop industry-based retirement system that looks at what it takes someone to do its job. While it makes sense for a farmer to retire at a younger age because of the physical requirements to work, it is not really important for someone whose work resolves around the web to do the same. So, we could say that the factory and farm workers could retire two years earlier than the knowledge workers.

 

Though it is bound to create challenges in the system, we can make do by finding ways to ensure that those knowledge workers that put so much time in the social media can invest some of the time in creative activities and government will pay them. So they might have retired, but government will put them through a transition stage through which they can technically work for the government via the web.

 

As more jobs move to the web, senior citizens can still provide opportunities than going into retirements immediately. It is possible that we can extend the years by creating a program where as they socialize on the web, we can develop work they can do. It is building a system that seamlessly blends into their retirement experiences.

 

The developed world needs a solution to meet obligations to the future and it is imperative that we use new opportunities technologies have provided. And associated human habits they have helped create. Nations need to quantify and understand how some government works could be done via the web and distributed to senior citizens who even during their retirements can help. Doing that means having a process that is structured to be in sync with their social media experiences.

 

Take for instance data collection and web surveys. Such activities can be assigned to senior citizens under a partnership through which they can be asked to help. It is important that private companies can be encouraged to develop a model where they can tap the enormous hours people invest on social media, especially the senior citizens, and use that to save costs. They could work remotely from their homes under flexible work schedules.

 

For a nation like Japan that has 23% of its population over the age of 65 and fertility rate of 1.34, about 0.7 below the acceptable minimum for a developed nation to maintain a constant population, it must think deep into new models for retirement. This will require more thoughts than what some of its provincial governments are doing- running dating sites for singles to boost procreation.

 

The developed world needs a system that evaluates the new nature of work. As work moves towards knowledge, requiring lesser physical energy, we have to find ways to extend the time people retire without obstructing how they have viewed their post-work lives. By using technology to build productive works into their retiree’s experiences, America and indeed the whole developed world could discover ways to continue to tap their senior’s experiences while balancing the nations’ budgets.

Fasmicro To Partner With MIT Students At University Of Ibadan On Apps Dev – June 20 To July 29

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Late yesterday, we spoke with the the Lead Technical  Instructor (Yemi) of the MIT Students planned programme in University of Ibadan under this initiative, Africa Information Technology Initiative (AITI). As reported yesterday, these students are coming to University of Ibadan to train students on mobility computing. Fasmicro has confirmed to attend this program. It will deliver lecture topics to UI students on entrepreneurship, network with them, judge business competition and mentor them after the program concludes. As Africa’s only local Android App Store maker, we will also support in the technical aspect by making our developers available to the students.

 

This is part of the document they emailed to us. Notice that the date is confirmed, unlike our post yesterday.

 

From June 20 – July 29, three students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will travel to the University of Ibadan (UI) to teach university students courses from the Africa Information Technology Initiative (AITI) curriculum. Since its inception in 1999, AITI has sent nearly 100 MIT student instructors to teach over 1200 students how to create successful mobile services startup by combining lectures on mobile and Internet technologies, hands-on  experience and entrepreneurship activities. Participating students have gone on to start ICT businesses and working for multinational corporations. Because of its successes, AITI has now become part of MIT’s primary international initiatives and is financially backed by Google.

 

This will be the first time that the AITI program will be in Nigeria. In order to achieve similar or greater successes in other countries, we are looking to form strategic relationships. One key component is the interaction and relationships that form between our students and firms in the mobile technology sector. We are interested in firms that would deliver interactive lectures to students on any of the following four topics: 1) Intellectual Property, 2) Public speaking and pitching ideas, 3) Marketing, 4) Business ethics in the Nigerian environment. We would also want a company representative to judge the final group business projects.

 

In return, company representatives will have access to our students. We consider our students to be the most valuable asset. The knowledge, training and exposure they have received from our program have made them attractive to multinational corporations. We also invite representatives to participate in our networking events and mentor the students after the program concludes.

Chromebooks + Android-Powered Phones: An insight (Part 2)

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…continues from here.

 

THE FUTURE


Social media & Traditional Computing

I believe Google has a powerful strategy. To take over cloud computing not just via services but control the hardware and also certify such hardware. Their ultimate strategy isn’t really to kill the laptop PC running windows OS but to take over a budding cloud computing enterprise where industry players are yet to really make a big dent. In a bid to win the race for social, which Facebook currently dominates, they are creating hardware to help them connect to this social experience and monetize via it. I believe with such integration, Google kind of puts a dent in the social media experience in being able to integrate your social experience on a mobile device and ChromeDocks.

 

Microsoft

This also appeals to enterprises as Google has almost any services that are done in premise.  Their Google Apps & Google Apps marketplace has a plethora of applications that can compete with Microsoft anytime. Apps ranging from Google enterprise mail to ERP solutions. And this list is endless. Some are free while some are on a rent basis which allows one to ensure ROIs immediately rather than spend so much and wait for ROIs later on during the quarters. More information on Google Apps market place, please visit.

 

Microsoft also has a cloud strategy for its products and also gaining recognition but with its slow pace within the tablet market and the mobile space, in the end a combo like a Android powered Tegra-3 device and a ChromeDocks might eventually slow down their pace in being king in such a thriving and bubbling space. This futuristic move might as well kill Microsoft in the enterprise market space where it is currently king. Although I strongly believe Microsoft office is still a killer reason why anyone would stick to Windows for a long time to come.

 

This also would eat deeply into other ERP solution providers like SAP and Oracle as all infrastructures would be hosted by Google and small start ups can compete with the big boys in terms of scalability without breaking the bank.

 

Developers

For developers, it would be a dream- come true. Java’s inspiration as always been, “Write once, run everywhere”. Everywhere refers to any platform be it SPARC, INTEL etc. I believe with Android ICS + ChromeDocks, it would really be a true “Write once, run on every device”. Every device being Tablets + Mobile + PC(Chromebooks, Windows, Linux), Apple(via Safari).  Developers wouldn’t need to boot different operating systems to build innovative programs anymore as there now cloud-based IDEs (e.g. Cloud9) which allows developers build and execute web apps straight from your browser. This would enable developers build scalable applications and test on Google App Engine instantly and test it out on the mobile for mobile phones, tablet via the tablet features of ICS via the Chromebook interface emulator for Tablets and finally on Chromebooks itself for a browser feel. Also remember, the Google web-based IDE for Android development (App Inventor) which allows building Android apps straight from your browser to the docked Android phone and tested straight from the ChromeDocks interface for mobiles all courtesy of the power of the ChromeOS.

For more information, check out:

Cloud9 IDE:

Google App Inventor

 

Revenue

This in the end has to translate to revenue for Google in the end. As always, they have been generating revenue from Search since inception and I believe it would be no different. Now that they certify both products (Chromebook & Android ICS), I believe they would invade(in a positive tone) you with ads. Chromebooks (ChromeDocks) could have a segment to the right-hand side with interactive HTML-5 ads which changes when a user searches for results. When a phone is docked, it instantly displays relevant apps from the market place which a user may choose to install directly on the docked phone and either played via the ChromeDocks or when the phone is undocked.

 

Also with YouTube having a lots of user-generated contents and now trying to gain Live-TV attention, your bet is as good as mine, it may replace your TV which in turn translates to more revenue for Google. It would be cool to have HDMI outputs from the ChromeDock to your TV and allows the user watch TV comfortably and use Bluetooth keyboard/Mouse to control the ChromeDocks(with phone docked) and can interact. Adverts would be streamed and played for the user based on interests all stored up in the cloud.

 

CONCERNS

With all the wonderful painted scenarios, there are some concerns with the above named scenarios:

 

1)      Security:

It all sounds good and fun, until a breach happens someplace and it dents our happiness. The recent SONY PLAYSTATION breach is a classic example. A lot of enterprises still love on-premise computing as they can safe-guard their data and also prevent exploitation from cloud infrastructure. Google must be able to ensure secured data and also timely delivery of critical transactions whilst using cloud-based applications.

 

2)      Integrity:

Would Google keep their integrity and remain not evil? Their motto “Don’t be evil” has shaped them to become a world-class company but occasional breaches such as the Google Street cars snooping of wifi passwords can dent such integrity especially since a ChromeDocks + Android combo would highly depend on such integrity. However, Google has been a kind company in admitting to such mistakes and I believe they genuinely admit when they cross lines that breaches their motto.

 

3)      Outage:

Ok, I love the idea of outsourcing all my on-premise computing infrastructure to the cloud but what in the world do I do if Google cloud infrastructure goes off for a few hours? I sit and hope they fix it. There have been outages even from the masters of cloud infrastructures. Amazon, Microsoft and Google occasionally report outage and end up apologizing. I believe we cannot dodge this fact since we are talking about computers running the infrastructure. They break down, parts needs to be replaced, OS needs to be upgraded etc. However, I believe Google in time would master the loopholes and provide incredible failovers for such outages. Only time will tell.

 

For recent outages:

Amazon:

Google:

Microsoft

 

4)      Bandwidth:

Well for most part of North America and some other parts of the world, this isn’t an issue but writing from Nigeria and being part of a budding enterprise here, it is a heavy concern. How would a thriving startup here plug into such an innovative idea without decent broadband?  They can’t. However there is hope, with more cables landing, I believe the prices would go down much further producing more competition and faster speed. It is also good that it is happening now so when the combo hits, we would be able to enjoy the innovation as well within Nigeria.

 

CONCLUSION

I hope I have been able to shed more light into what I believe might be a strategy Google might employ to marry both Android ICS + Chromebooks into what I have termed (Android ICS + ChromeDocks). I don’t work for Google so these are entirely my own insights and forecasts for a thriving cloud computing industry.

I believe strongly that Google I/O 2012 would be a very interesting one for Android + Chromebooks. They might be giving away the duo for free. Either way, I do intend to participate in Google I/O in 2012 by God’s grace.

 

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