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HP Repositions Brand with Former SAP Chief – Marty Homlish to Lead HP’s Global Marketing

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Ejiofor Agada
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Hewlett-Packard Co (HP) has hired former SAP AG marketing executive Marty Homlish to lead HP’s global marketing efforts, as chief executive Leo Apotheker continues to put his management team in place to drive growth. Apotheker, who formerly helmed SAP, is trying to galvanize HP’s sprawling divisions and expand its software business to boost margins.

 

The addition of former SAP marketing executive Homlish should bolster its software effort. As executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Homlish will oversee and lead marketing across HP, reporting directly to Apotheker, the company said. Homlish, who helped double SAP’s brand value, will help HP unify its marketing approach to “present ‘one HP’ to the market,” Apotheker said in a statement. He was at SAP for 10 years, more recently as global chief marketing officer and at Sony (SNE) for 15 years prior to that.

 

HP’s newly minted CEO has focused on the software business, calling it the “glue” of the sprawling computing giant’s operations and has said he wants to restore HP’s reputation for innovation — a reputation stemming from its early days as a founding father of Silicon Valley – and invest in research.

 

The software division now accounts for less than 3 percent of revenue. Apotheker is also under pressure to appease investors and fend off a clutch of rivals ranging from Oracle Corp to IBM. HP’s share price has dwindled since former CEO Mark Hurd — a cost-cutter popular with shareholders — left the company. Homlish replaces Michael Mendenhall who resigned from the company in January after four years in the role.
His resignation followed the high-profile executive of H-P’s chief executive Mark Hurd who left the company after an investigation found he had violated the business’ conduct standards.

 

HP is trying to tap into the growing appetite for cloud internet and mobile computing rather than just relying on PC sales. The company’s latest quarterly revenue figures, up 3.2% to $32.2bn (£19.6bn), fell short of analysts’ forecasts as consumer demand for PCs fell.

 

The firm is to launch a range of consumer and business products this year, including the roll-out its first tablet, the TouchPad, which is reported to come with a pre-installed cloud-based music streaming service. The launch of the cloud-based music locker would beat Apple and Google, who are also reportedly working on similar services, to the market. Separately, HP’s executive vice president for enterprise business sales and marketing left the company 19th April to “pursue other interests”. He will be replaced by Jan Zadak, currently HP managing director for EMEA.

[News Flash] Tekedia Founder Invited to NigeriaCom 2011

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Tekedia Editors
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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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Tekedia Editors
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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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Tekedia Editors
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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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Tekedia Editors
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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?

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