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[News Flash] Tekedia Founder Invited to NigeriaCom 2011

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Over here in Lagos, we report that our Founder, Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe, has been invited to NigeriaCom 2011. It was communicated in an email by the Conference Producer, yesterday. He has not gotten back to us if he will attend, though. Dr Ekekwe  – the recipient of IGI Global 2010 “Book of the Year Award” and inventor of microchip for medical robots has spoken in Harvard University where he writes at HBR, Wharton Business School, MIT, and across the globe. He founded our parent company,

Fasmicro, which is giving Nigeria its first indigenous Apps Store. He holds two doctorates and four master’s degrees with undergraduate from FUT, Owerri (Nigeria) where he finished the best in his class in 1998. He is also a full professor of electrical and computer engineering and consult for United Nations, AU, and other leading institutions. An elite engineer, he creates some of the coolest technologies in the world with his colleagues in US.

I would like to invite Dr Ekekwe to make a presentation at the event,  looking at m-health apps in Nigeria.  Could you either pass this  invitation on to him, or advise me how to contact him direct?

 

Now in its second year, the event has become the must-attend event for  anyone involved with the Nigerian telecoms industry, with the most  senior networking and learning experience for delegates in Africa’s  largest and fastest  growing telecoms market.

NigeriaCom is a preeminent conference in Nigeria where participants will gain unique market perspectives and insights from a 40 strong speaker-line up including 25+ Operator leaders. The 2 day agenda equips you to capitalise on new networks and services, while the 60 stand networking exhibition will showcase the world’s foremost technology and solutions available for your business. With 1,000+ attendees, if you do telecoms business in the region, this is an event you cannot afford to miss! Past speakers included CEOs of the leading telcos in Nigeria like Etisalat Nigeria, Starcomms, among others.

We will be presenting this conference in few hours today – just gathering data. We are immediately calling to evaluate the impact as of last year. If you attended the last one, please email tekedia@fasmicro.com.

Date for DrupalCamp Fixed In Nigeria – October 9

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DrupalCamp Lagos is formed and will be hosting an event. Drupal is an open source CMS (content management system) for web design.

 

Why Choose Drupal?

Use Drupal to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine.

Drupal is free, flexible, robust and constantly being improved by hundreds of thousands of passionate people from all over the world. Join us!

 

DrupalCamp to the folks in Nigeria is beyond just a gathering. DrupalCamp Lagos is geared towards use of open source tools & technology for the economic development of Nigeria.

 

Why DrupalCamp?

  • To improve technology awareness.
  • To help increase self employment opportunities.
  • To improve IT skills through hands-on training & Dev contests among students, individuals, professionals & the entire society.
  • To help our youths compete with the international community towards use of technology for economic development.
  • To encourage collaboration among IT professionals including individuals & corporate organizations

 

The program is open to general public, individuals, corporate organization & government parastatals.

 

Date: October 9th

8:30am – 3:00pm
Talk Sessions
8:00am – 8:30am
Introduction / Brief of Last Camp
3:00pm – 6:00pm
DevFest – Code Sharing / Drupal Training
Venue: Afe Babalola Hall, Unilag

 

Registration is here

 

Tekedia will be bringing update to this event as we near the time.

Google Music – A Cloud-based Music Storage and Streaming Service

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Google has unveiled a new cloud-based music storage and streaming service called Music. It says that it is a  better way to play your music and asks you to upload your personal music collection to listen anywhere. Oh yes, keep everything in sync, and forget the hassle of cables and files.

 

You can get to your personal music collection at home or on the go. Listen from the web or any enabled device with the Music app available from Android Market. Not online? No problem. The songs you’ve recently played will automatically be available offline. You can also select the specific albums, artists and playlists you want to have available when you’re not connected.

 

Create your own custom playlists with just a few clicks. Or use Instant Mix to automatically build new playlists of songs from your collection that go great together. All the playlists you create and all the changes you make to them are automatically available everywhere your music is.

 

Walahi! We may be slow and just noticing this. So, if you have used it, let us know how cool it is. Music is playing in any sphere of the digital world.

 

 

Take a Look at Google Products and Services – The List You Have Never Seen

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Courtesy of Tekedia Intelligence Forum participant, exploit, these are Google products and services.

1.   Google Search – the most popular search engine on the Web.
2.   Blogger – A free blog
3.   FeedBurner – Allows bloggers and podcasters to manage their RSS feeds.
4.   Google Ad Planner – A free media planning tool that can help you identify websites your audience is likely to visit so you can make better-informed advertising decisions.
5.   Google AdSense – Place contextual Google ads on your site – and earn money.
6.   Google AdWords – Advertise online and pay only when people click on your ad.
7.   Google Affiliate Network (DoubleClick) – Full-service online marketing company specializing in pay-for-performance media.
8.   Google Alerts – Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
9.   Google Analytics (Urchin) – Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online.
10.   Google Apps – Software-as-a-service for business email, information sharing and security.
11.   Google Base – Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content.
12.   Google Blog Search – Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs.
13.   Google Bookmarks – Google Bookmarks is an online service that lets you save your favorite sites and attach labels and comments.
14.   Google Book Search – Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide.
15.   Google Calendar – Keep track of all your life’s important events – birthdays, reunions, little league games, doctor’s appointments – all in one place.
16.   Google Checkout – Buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place.
17.   Google Chrome – A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
18.   Google Code – Code is for external developers interested in Google related development.
19.   Google Contacts – Similar to an online address book, the Contact Manager gives you easy access to the people you want to reach.
20.   Google Custom Search Engine & Google Subscribed Links – With Google Custom Search Engine and Subscribed Links, you can create a search engine tailored to your needs and lets you create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages.
21.   Google Desktop – Search your computer as easily as you search the web with Google.
22.   Google Dictionary – Free online dictionary.
23.   Google Directory – The web organized by topic into categories.
24.   Google Documents – Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online.
25.   Google Earth & Google Mars – Offers maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches.
26.   Google Finance – Offers a broad range of information about stocks, mutual funds, and companies.
27.   Google Friend Connect – Instantly awakens and strengthens the community that visits your site by enriching it with social features.
28.   Google Gears – A Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize when going back online.
29.   Google Groups – Where groups of people have discussions about common interests.
30.   Google Health – Puts you in charge of your health information.
31.   Google Image Search & Similar Images – The most comprehensive image search on the web. Google Search Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words.
32.   Google In Quotes – Allows you to find quotes from stories linked to from Google News.
33.   Google Knol – Knol makes it free and easy to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content.
34.   Google Latitude – See where your friends are on a map.
35.   Google Local Business Center – If you are a business owner Claim your business listing today and let customers find you online!
36.   Google Mail (Gmail) – Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful.
37.   Google Maps & Google Map Maker – Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions. With Map Maker you can edit the map in more than a hundred countries and watch your edits go into Google Maps.
38.   Google Mobile – Upgrade your phone with free Google products.
39.   Google Moderator – A tool that allows distributed communities to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations and events.
40.   Google News, News Archive Search & Google News Timeline – Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world’s news sources. News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. News Timeline is a web application that organizes information chronologically.
41.   Google Notebook (SearchWiki) – With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer.
42.   Google Patents – Search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.
43.   Google Product Search (Froogle) – Presents photographs of products and links to the stores that sell them online.
44.   Google Reader – Web based feed reader to keep up with blogs and news.
45.   Google Scholar – Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
46.   Google Sets – Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
47.   Google Sites – Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share web pages.
48.   Google SketchUp – Create, modify and share 3D models.
49.   Google Sky – Google Sky includes a number of different ways to explore the universe.
50.   Google Squared – Takes a category and creates a starter ‘square‘ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.
51.   Google Store – Official Google Accessories, Apparel Items, Software, Office Equipment
52.   Google Suggest – As you type your search, Google offers keyword suggestions in real time.
53.   Google Talk – Chat with family and friends over the Internet for free.
54.   Google Toolbar – Internet Explorer and Firefox Toolbar with Google search.
55.   Google Translate – Free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages.
56.   Google Trends & Google Insights for Search – Compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Use Google Insights for Search and see for yourself what the world is searching for.
57.   Google Video – Search and watch millions of videos indexed from all over the web.
58.   Google Wave – Google Wave is a new online communication and collaboration tool.
59.   Google Web Accelerator – Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show up in a snap.
60.   Google Web History – Your web history is stored on Google servers, which means that you can view and manage it from any computer.
61.   Google Webmaster Tools – Provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google.
62.   iGoogle – Your personalized Google home page.
63.   Jaiku – Create your own microblog and connect with your friends.
64.   Orkut – Social networking site designed to make your social life more active and stimulating.
65.   Picasa – Helps you organize, edit, and share your photos.
66.   YouTube – Share your videos with friends, family, and the world.

Even more than these are on wiki

 

What can you say about core competence if indeed Google has 66 products and services. Oh yes, did he add CASHFLOW as a product?

The Latest on CloudCamp Lagos – Unconference of Early Adopters of Cloud Computing!

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Cloud computing is an interesting new buzz in the world of technology. It provides cost savings and can enable an organization start an operation that will take months immediately just by making a payment via a web. Yet, it offers challenges as our founder shared in his Harvard Business Review column. The opportunities and gains are huge, so are the risks. Oh yes, the ‘wahala’ could be daunting and that is why you need to talk to the pros. This conference (yes, conference) in Lagos plans to help. The big guys are coming and we are thrilled to also be making it.

 

CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

 

Why Cloud Computing ?

  • The ability to scale your business and infrastructure — on demand with out capital outlay.
  • The ability to flow over (even if it’s just the coffee ordering system) — on demand without commitment.

Who should attend:
Anyone wishing to further Cloud Computing or just learn what all the fuss is about!

  • Developers, Architects, Analysts, IT Management and Executives, from App Dev through to Production.
  • Entrepreneurs, founders and leaders of start-up/early-stage companies, venture capitalists and industry analysts.

Reasons to attend:

  • Understand how to integrate Cloud Computing Services into your business
  • Find ways to cut fixed infrastructure costs while increasing reliability and scalability
  • Learn from from others about their use of Cloud Computing Services

Date
May 28th, 2011

 

Schedule

10:00  Registration & Networking
10:30  Introduction ~~ Abayomi Ayoola, O.
11:00  What is Cloud Computing? ~~ Udoh Ubong, Syspera
11:50  Lightning Talks
~~ Not Confirmed Yet
, IBM
GitHub ~~ Scott Chacon, GitHub
Google AppEngine ~~ Kayode Odeyemi, Opevel Nigeria
12:50  Break & Networking
13:30  Break Out Session
Group A – SaaS (Unconfirmed) ~~
Scott Chacon, GitHub
Group B – PaaS (Practical session on Using Amazon Web Services) ~~ Tim Akinbo, TimbaObjects
Group C – IaaS (Google App Engine) ~~ Kayode Odeyemi, Opevel Nigeria
14:15  Lightning Panel with Audience Questions
Udoh Ubong, Syspera
Not Confirmed Yet, IBM
Scott Chacon, GitHub
Tim Akinbo, TimbaObjects
Blake Mizerany
16:00  Networking at Bar Party

Location

Theatre Hall
City Mall Opposite Muson Centre
Onikan Lagos