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Meanwhile, it works perfectly on Firefox.
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Owerri, Nigeria
Ovim Plus will hit stores across Nigeria in two weeks. Now, you are happy that the engine of work and play will reach your hands very soon. Why not? The truly iconic engine is nothing like before. Nigerians, welcome simplicity. Embrace love. It is a world of mobility. Ovim – the Nigeria’s tablet.
You can order Ovim plus through Microscale Embedded and Fasmicro (links below)
Ovim Plus was unveiled few days ago by Microscale Embedded and Fasmicro. Here is the specification of this machine, an engine of work and play. This beast will be available in May.
Processor: Freescale iMX515 800MHz ARM Cortex A8
CPU: Dual core 800MHZ
O/S:Android 2.2 Support Flash10.1
Memory/Hard disk:512M/4GB
Display:10.1? TFT resistive touch screen,1024*600
Camera:Support TF card.Battery:3800mAh
support word,Excel,Power point and email function
Audio/Video:Support web video,music,chat,picture
Other function:Support HDMI WIFI , built-in 3G
Box/Kg:30.5*21.5*8.5mm/0.9KG
OK. A gentleman asked us that he would like to know how to make tablets but he never has time because of work. We simply told him to enroll in an online engineering degree.
Ovim Plus is a joint product of Fasmicro and Microscale Embedded.
Precurio, the innovative Nigerian company, will release ver 3.0 of its popular product. This new version will be much better than the current version 2.1. Mayowa Okegbenle, the Co-Founder, Klein Devort Ltd, the company behind Precurio communicated this to Tekedia.
Meanwhile, this is the current version of Precurio is 2.1, which is being revamped.
“Precurio 2.1 is a response to the feedback from our community. Customers will now have more control over their intranet start page and our developer community will be really pleased at the new widgets framework.” said Shola Akinlade, Co founder, Klein Devort.
About Precurio:
Precurio is an open source intranet platform that combines a comprehensive package of
collaborative and social networking tools with robust reporting, workflow and enterprise
content management. The product web site at www.precurio.com contains additional
information.
In the last few years, the world has morphed into an electronically connected interdependent atomic economic unit where a disruption in one marketplace affects the others. Consequently, it has become naïve to appraise the competitive challenges and opportunities for nations or indeed a continent without looking at the big global picture. Recent financial crises have shown in no small measure that the world is interlinked and the global commerce and industry has been transformed by the extraordinary powers of information and communication technologies.
Indeed when America suffers mortgage loan crises, Nigerian citizens are affected through liquidity crises in their banking sector. And when euro-zone nations experience debt burdens, all the major global financial districts are reshaped.
Increasingly, individuals are having much power either in the capital markets, governments or entertainments and the era of centralized political power is progressively giving way to citizen’s power. Our world is being redesigned and new waves of innovation are evolving to disrupt our modern economic structures. And this trend is expected to continue as the powers of microprocessors continue to improve and information gets cheaper. New industries will emerge; some traditional ones will collapse.
While the redesigning process is global, the innovation race is not. Many developing nations are not adapting fast enough because of deficiency in knowledge and infrastructural capability. And the developed world will not wait for them because the competition is intense and the global economic health fragile. They need innovation to provide more jobs, support their welfare systems and advance the living standards of their citizens.
Technologies will continue to disrupt markets with the like of nanotechnology showing the capacity to demise commodity markets. This poses security threats if plans are not developed to retrain those that will be displaced from the industries. The debts and financial crises in the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) are showing that a single currency is not a panacea to all economic problems. As it offers a larger market, single currency also could damage a weak continental economic structure.
In the midst of the challenges above, there are also opportunities during this redesigning process. Consequently, the objective of this post is to establish a prestigious compilation of research advances, discussions and reviews on the challenges and opportunities as they affect the world, with minor focus on the developing nations.
We are looking for posts on the following areas: Technology, Business, Debt crises, Finance, Health, Government, Trade, Immigration, Environment & Sustainability, Education, Currency, Energy, Risk and Security, Welfare, Poverty, Employment, Corruption, Terrorism, Law, Economic Growth, IPR etc.
We invite posts from the academic, non-governmental, professional and business communities to submit a maximum of 600-word post on what you think is the most important challenge facing the world and how that will affect the developing world. You can also look at it from the other way around; what is the most important challenge to the developing world and how will the world affect it.
Simply, we seek:
– Describe one or two major challenges or opportunities in the world
– Explain how that those challenges or opportunities will affect developing nations
– Propose a solution on how developing nations can overcome the challenges or take advantage of the opportunities
Tekedia is an open innovation forum – we are looking for ideas and please send your posts. Some great contributions will make them to a new book we are working on. Remember that if you cannot write, it may be time to consider enrolling in any of the online business degrees and get the training you deserve.
Mobile-Based Integrated Transport Management System In Nigeria
-Luxury Buses, Coaches, Cross-Country Travel Operators in Nigeria-
Introduction: This document is prepared to help present what Fasmicro can provide to any cross-country travel operator in Nigeria. The category includes luxury buses, coaches, inter-state taxi operators, etc. Typical examples include ABC Transport Plc, Edo Transport Service, and Imo Transport Corporation. We present this document to share the idea and will send detailed proposal to any operator that wants to engage us.
Our Idea: We propose a Mobile-Based Integrated Transport Management System (MITMS). It will comprise of Website Design, Apps Development or/and Software. Each is briefly explained:
1. Transport App. Based on Ovim Tablet – our Nigerian market notebook, we will implement an MITMS that will manage inventory, capture fixed assets, help in ticket management and synchronized with all the company offices nation-wide.
A tablet personal computer (tablet PC) is a portable personal computer equipped with a touch screen as a primary input device and designed to be operated and owned by an individual. Unlike laptops, tablet personal computers may not be equipped with a keyboard, in which case they use a virtual onscreen substitute. All tablet personal computers have a wireless adapter for Internet and local network connection. Software applications for tablet PCs include office suites, web browsers, games and a variety of applications (source: Wikipedia).
This means with the software installed in our Ovim tablet, any approved staff of the company can check information about any station or branch at any time. Ovim works with GSM network and wireless-enabled making it easy to manage fleet and complex transport networks across the nation with simplicity. We will supply the tablets and implement the application software (Apps). The implication is that management will take logistics and transport coordination mobile and eliminate the problems of distance. For instance, the company may have a policy that drivers travelling from Lagos to Uyo must notify stations when they reach some stations like Benin, Onitsha, etc. Doing this will make it easy for managers to know where the buses are and when they will arrive. Upon completion of travel, the drivers will log into their tablets all the pertinent travel details which can help in developing future services. This information is made available to all approved staff/branches. From scheduling maintenance to coordinating fleet, our Apps will handle all via a simple device which is similar to Apple Ipad. A photo of our device (Fig.1) is shown below. We will supply many units to the company to cover managers, drivers, etc and implement an unprecedented logistics management system in Africa (Fig.2).
Fig.1: Ovim Tablet
| Fasmicro MITMS Components Decision Engine: Set Driver Standards, Reports – Driver manifests, directions, resource utilization, customer delivery, route summaries, etc – all done wirelessly.Support Engine: invoicing and booking documents, sending of transport alerts (delay, accident, non-forecast stops…), maintenance requests, etc. Measurement Engine: Service quality control, vehicle load, route problems, real time problems |
Fig.2: Mobile-Based Integrated Transport Management System
With Ovim Tablet and wirelessly connected, you can monitor drivers, fleet, branches, schedules, tickets, synchronized operations, track stock, etc- all done with a hand held device running on our App software. You can also connect with your mechanic and schedule each vehicle service through the App. The public will buy tickets, view schedules, time, etc through the Apps.
2. Website Design. The following will be implemented
a. Tickets: Travelers will make reservations online and can pay at your offices with their online reservations codes or pay at designated banks or even pay with ATM cards online. We will have credit card interface, in case they become mainstream in coming months, in Nigeria. Ticket prices and schedule changes will be constantly updated by staff. There could also be information for advanced payment and discounts for group travels.
b. Travel information: Information for Baggage, bus routes, schedules, children travelling, and general safety issues will be put online. All rewards for repeat travels will also be made available here.
c. Discovery Travel: AKTC could be interested to offer special travel programs for people that want to discover the state. This will be like tours. Information on this will be presented on this site.
d. Station Locator: Addresses of all the branches will be put online as well as the major bus stops.
e. General: There will be about us section with Executive Bios and information about the state. Contact information will also be included.
3. Software. We can implement the #1 above for Personal computers. In that case, the software will run on computers, the same way Microsoft Word runs. Professionally, we think this is not the future. The world is becoming very mobile and having that capacity to synchronize all the branches through Ovim tablet in a GSM network will be good for any organization. But if our client wants PC localized software, we will gladly implement it. In that case, you will be deprived of real time data from the drivers, station managers, public mobile interface, etc.