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Sony Ericsson Unveils Xperia Mini, Xperia Mini Pro – Both Come With Improved Specs

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Sony Ericsson has unveiled follow-up models to Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro, improving them with better specifications. According to CNET

Both handsets feature a 3-inch touch display, 5-megapixel camera, and 1GHz Snapdragon processor. As was the case with the first generation of these Xperia phones, the primary difference between the two is that the Mini Pro features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, whereas the Mini is touch only. Additionally, the Mini Pro adds a front-facing VGA camera and a pair of business-minded apps: Office Suite and McAfee Antivirus.

 

At first glance, these new handsets look nearly identical to their predecessors, but there are plenty of subtle differences. The screen size has been bumped up ever so slightly from 2.55 inches to 3 inches, adding Sony’s Reality Display with Mobile Bravia Engine for good measure.

 

Further, the 5-megapixel camera is now capable of recording 720p HD video, a point Sony is quick to promote. As it stands today, the Xperia Mini is the smallest Android phone in the world able to record video in high definition.

The Xperia Mini Pro is more business-minded than its counterpart. 

(Credit: Sony Ericsson)

 

The major problem with these efforts is just that Sony Ericsson  has lost the mojo and may be unable to stop the momentum of Apple. How users reach to this will matter if Sony Ericsson can compete in this business climate. Phone business is tough because iPhone raised the bar too much. However, a great product could make all the difference.

Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign – Nominate Three African Companies For Book Studies

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Prof N Ekekwe – our Founder – and Dr Nazrul Islam are working on two book projects. One is listed below and will be published by IGI Global. The book official page is here. He wants to do a case study on three African companies. Could you nominate innovative  startups, rampups or speedup firms in the continent that can make this study and eventually the book. Email tekedia@fasmicro.com or call any of our offices in Nigeria or just note them in the comment section.

 

Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign

Editors:

Prof (Dr) Ndubuisi Ekekwe, African Institution of Technology, USA & Babcock University, Nigeria
Dr. Nazrul Islam, Aberystwyth University, UK

Call for Chapters:

Proposals Submission Deadline: January 11, 2011
Full Chapters Due: March 11, 2011
Submission Date: June 30, 2011


IntroductionIn the last few years, most parts of the world have morphed into an electronically interdependent economic unit where a disruption in one marketplace affects the others. New technologies have emerged, transforming the ways we do business and, consequently, redesigning the world. Innovation in disruptive technologies pushes new and more agile firms to set new benchmarks, and forces established companies to incorporate evolving breakthroughs into their models or re-invent themselves to stay competitive.

 

Innovation thus remains a key driver in wealth creation, but the way it happens is changing as a result of new technologies, processes and tools. As social media networks advance, outsourcing ideas to the crowd has become common, while inter-company R&D that pools resources together is a new normal. From agriculture to print media, finance to mortgage and across sectors, industries, and disciplines, the world is being redesigned. The emerging implications are enormous—less energy for processing natural resources, less waste in processed raw materials—and these translate to positive effects on the environment. Yet, few research works exist about these developments, despite the exponential growth rate of new technologies with the potential to massively impact business and society.

 

Objective of the book

Accordingly, this project will assemble an edited collection of chapters on disruptive technologies, innovation, and the overall global redesign. The main objective of the book is to provide comprehensive evidence of research, case studies, practical and theoretical papers on the issues surrounding disruptive technologies, innovation, global redesign and their implications. The book will serve as a valuable resource on emerging and disruptive technologies, innovation and general global redesign.

 

Target Audience

This book will be a useful reference for academics, students, policy-makers and professionals in the fields of emerging and disruptive technologies, innovation, economic planning, technology and society, technology transfer, and general technology management.

 

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  • Different areas of global redesign: political, economic, institutional, etc as a result of new technologies and innovation
  • Different types of emerging technologies
  • Overview of disruptive technologies and their impacts
  • The patterns of modern innovation: open innovation, crowdsourcing, etc
  • Global overview of emerging innovations
  • Technology clustering and transfer
  • Innovation and government policies
  • Relevant topics on innovation, technologies and global redesign
  • Technology mapping
  • Social network analysis
  • Promise and pitfalls of process and production technologies, process economics
  • Infrastructures (education, research and industry) as they relate to new technologies
  • Models on technology transfer and diffusion trajectories
  • Technology as drivers for knowledge economy (KE) in developing and emerging nations
  • Case studies on global new technology programs
  • Management of disruptive technologies
  • Disruptive technology roadmapping
  • Legislative frameworks and legal issues on technology transfer
  • Environment and climate issues associated with disruptive technologies
  • Disruptive technology forecasting
  • Indicators for new technology assessment
  • Emerging diffusion paradigm of disruptive technologies
  • Virtual education, collaboration and technology flow from developed nations
  • Development and funding models from continental and global institutions like IMF, World Bank, IFC, ADB, AfDB, NEPAD, African Union, European Union, etc for technology and innovation
  • Disruptive innovations in NGO and intergovernmental organizations?
  • Legal, climate change, policy, etc issues on emerging technologies
  • Technology clusters and incubation centers
  • Entrepreneurship in disruptive technologies
  • Sustainability of programs focusing disruptive technologies in developed, developing and emerging nations
  • Roles and national technology policies as they pertain to adoption and diffusion

Submission Information

Academics, researchers, policymakers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before January 11, 2011 a 2-3 page manuscript proposal detailing the background, motivations and structure of the proposed chapter by clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposal.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 31, 2011 on the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines.

Full chapters are due by March 11, 2011 and should range from 7,000-8,000 words in length. All submitted chapters will be peer-reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

 

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.


Important Dates

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 11, 2010
Notification of Acceptance by January 31, 2011
Full Chapter Submission: March 11, 2011
Review Result Returned: 31 May 2011
Revised Chapter Submission: 30 June 2011
Final Notification of Acceptance: 30 July 2011

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Prof (Dr) Ndubuisi Ekekwe
African Institution of Technology, USA & Babcock University, Nigeria
E-Mail: info@afrit.org or nekekwe1@jhu.edu

Or

Dr. Nazrul Islam
Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Email: drnazrul201@gmail.com or mni@aber.ac.uk

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Nokia Controls More Than 70% of Nigeria’s Handset Market

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This is the concluding part of our examination of Buzz City report. The first part is here.

 

According to Buzz City, by the end of the first quarter, across the globe, the top phones

used for surfing ranked as follows:

 

 

a. Nokia (46.2%),

b. Samsung (12.5%) and

c. Sony Ericsson (8.4%).

 

But for Nigeria, Nokia controls 74% of the handset market. Sony-Ericsson  has 7.25%, Samsung 6.16% and LG 2%. The generic make up the rest.

 

Nigeria’s mobile ecosystem dedicates 64% to entertainment and lifestyle; 23% of mobile content; 10% community and 3% search/services/portal. Also, female contribute only 22% in the makeup of the mobility activity in Nigeria. The most active age group is 20-24 years with 41% of the space.

Accordingly to the report,

 

Nigeria’s seemingly unstoppable growth trajectory continued through the quarter, to end March with 189.9m ads served to 3.84m unique users.

 

 

This will surely grow when the WACS cables are completed.

 

Afritedia – Africa’s Free Theses Portal. Post, Share and Learn

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It is faster now….use it and let the world know about your works. Afritedia!

Too bad, this site is too slow; we will move it to another server. Bear with us, we are moving this site from the always slow Godaddy to our hosting platform at FasHostIT.com

 

We invite you to inform your students, professors, colleagues, researchers, and institutions that Afritedia is ready (actually on beta, still working on bugs) .  http://www.afritedia.org/

 

Afritedia is a free service of the non-profit African Institution of Technology (AFRIT).  Our vision is to ensure that no African academic, scholarly or relevant document is ever lost. From theses to African technology techniques, from legal notes to seminar papers, from student projects to working papers, etc, we want all data in this database.

 

Posting could be done by the institution or by the researcher or student. This service is completely free. Should you need a mini-version of Afritedia in your school database, please contact the Team.

 

Africa – This is your tool. Our grandparents did not massively develop indigenous ways of writing (thanks Ethiopians), resulting to enormous loss of knowledge. Today, we cannot afford to be burning student theses and within few years, revisit a problem someone had solved. For progress and development, we need to collaborate and Afritedia is that platform.

 

We have got people posting. Tell your friends and let us build Africa’s biggest theses portal.

 

 

The Art of War – Google vs. Microsoft (Part 2)

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This is the concluding part of The Art of War – Google vs. Microsoft

 

Whether its operating systems, documents, search, communication, or mobile, the two behemoths have been increasingly butting heads in a war for tech supremacy. Now with Google Chrome OS making headlines, maybe it’s about time for a straight-up analysis of where the competition between Google and Microsoft stands. So who’s winning the war? And how will Google Chrome OS affect this longstanding battle?

 

 

Search –

Search is to Google as Windows is to Microsoft. Google dominate the search market by a wide margin, despite Microsoft’s best efforts (including the company’s failed attempt to buy Yahoo and propping Bing with Blackberry devices). Microsoft had to do something drastic to compete in search, and they did with their recent activities with Bing. It’s received a lot of press, a lot of positive reviews, and has clearly caught Google’s attention. But does anyone seriously think it will overtake Google’s dominance in search anytime soon?

 

 

Documents –

Microsoft Office, with Word, Powerpoint, and Excel have been the leading way to create and edit documents for years, and for good reason – they’re widely used, widely known, and feature-rich. There’s also now Microsoft Office Live, which while not as collaborative as Google Docs, isn’t a bad solution and has the benefit of being connected to the desktop apps. Google Docs have been growing in features and users. They provide a level of collaboration that Microsoft documents simply don’t offer. But they don’t provide as many options as Microsoft Office and they just don’t have nearly as many users (they’ve been made inroads especially in Africa of late). This is one area where the majority of users still prefer the desktop to the web.

 

 

Communication, Email, and IM –

While Google’s probably more revered for Gmail and its communication suite, Hotmail is still bigger, and Live Messenger is heavily used. Microsoft also produces the popular Outlook software and has software in a variety of arenas, such as Windows Live Meeting, giving the company an edge in the enterprise. Google has a suite of very popular communication products – Gmail and Gtalk being the best known. The X factor in this debate though, is the upcoming Google Wave communication platform, which has impressed us so far. There’s also the intriguing Google Voice offering to consider.

 

 

Mobile –

Google’s has good traction with its Android mobile OS given that its relatively new to the space. It runs on more than one million T Mobile phones and has a strong app platform. Many of Google’s apps also run well on mobile phones, especially Google Maps and YouTube. Windows Mobile still shipped tens of millions of units up till 2009/2010, far outpacing Android. It also has apps to run Office, Outlook, and Windows Media Player. We think the long-term trend favors Google, but as of right now Microsoft is the leader.

 

 

Operating System –

This is Microsoft’s bread and butter. Windows is the reason Microsoft makes $60+ billion in revenue every year and has stayed on top for so long. Its stranglehold is legendary. Yet Windows Vista proved that it is not invincible, neccessiating the quick introduction of Windows 7. Let’s say this: we can’t wait to see what Google has in store for Google Chrome OS. We’re skeptical that it could ever kill Windows, but Google will be Microsoft’s most powerful challenger yet.

This is surely a battle to look forward to.

 

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