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Airtel Nigeria Sponsors WAFICT 2011 – June 14-16, Lagos

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The build up to the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution got a boost with Airtel Nigeria, a leading telecommunications services provider, declaring its participation at a major platform to mark the event, the West African ICT Congress, as Platinum Sponsor.

 

Airtel Nigeria’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Rajan Swaroop, who has already been confirmed as a lead speaker at the conference, said of the Airtel sponsorship of WAFICT Congress 2011: “Airtel would like to use the opportunity that the WAFICT Congress provides to join the government and people of Nigeria in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the telecom revolution in the country, which it pioneered on August 5th, 2001 as the first operator to launch commercial service in Nigeria.

 

“Over the years, we have maintained the enviable track record of being the best in terms of customer service, which is really the major differentiator in a market that offers virtually the same services.  We see a great need to continue to give to the Nigerian people the best services ever, to put smiles on their faces, to help enhance their lives socially, economically, educationally and in all aspects that will make them experience life in its best possible ways. Indeed Airtel is committed to giving Nigerians the freedom to live and actualise their dreams.”

 

WAFICT Congress 2011, to be held in Lagos from June 14-16, alongside the 11th edition of West Africa’s leading ICT exhibition, the West African International Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology exhibition (W.Afri.Tel), is already attracting national and international endorsements, interest and star-studded speaker line up.

 

WAFICT Congress 2011 is being organised by Africa’s foremost ICT magazine, IT & Telecom Digest, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO). Chief Executive of the CTO, Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, commented on the Airtel’s sponsorship: “Airtel has exhibited by this sponsorship of the WAFICT 2011, its seriousness and commitment to the telecom industry in Nigeria and indeed, Africa and the world. Airtel also thereby exhibits a readiness to not only deliver on its promise on quality services, but to also support the telecom industry to grow and to support activities of government that encourage continues growth of the telecom sector and the economy in general. This is a commendable step.”

 

On his part, Mr. Mkpe Abang, Editor-in-Chief of IT & Telecom Digest, said: “As a frontline global telecommunications operator, Airtel has confirmed its focus as an operator that values its customers, its environment and its areas of operations. By sponsoring and participating at WAFICT 2011, Airtel will be contributing immensely towards stimulating discourse that will take the Nigerian telecom industry to the next level.

 

“We have no doubt that Airtel will continue to deliver the goodness promise to its teeming subscribers.”

 

The Minister of Information and Communications, Honourable Labaran Maku, had issued a formal letter endorsing the WAFICT Congress and W.Afri.Tel exhibition as the platform to celebration the Nigerian telecom revolution, and urged mobile companies, ISPs, government agencies and establishments, telecom operators as well as all other stakeholders, to support the events and join the ministry in giving a voice to Nigeria’s achievements in telecom.

 

In the letter, entitled ‘To whom it may concern – Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution: Special West African ICT Congress 2011, by IT & Telecom Digest’,  endorsing the two events, which run concurrently, from June 14-16, 2011, at the new Eko Expo Hall, Lagos, the minister stated:

“I am writing to confirm that the Federal Ministry of Information and Communications endorses and recommends IT & Telecom Digest Magazine to organise the West African ICT Congress 2011, as part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution.

 

“The publication will celebrate the progress that has been made during the past one decade in the Nigerian telecom industry. In doing so, IT & Telecom Digest will host the WAFICT Congress 2011, of which the Ministry is in full support and will participate fully. This is important to further open up our country to the rest of the world as the investment destination for telecom in Africa.

 

“In this regard, the Federal Ministry of Information and Communications officially endorses WAFICT Congress, which is being hosted alongside the 11th W.Afri.Tel Exhibition, in Eko Hotel, Lagos, June 14-16, 2011, and the Ministry hereby urges all businesses, companies, professionals, all stakeholders, government agencies, etc, to lend their support to the events and join us in celebrating this happy milestone: Ten Years of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution 2001 – 2011.”

 

WAFICT Congress 2011 will draw speakers and participants from within West Africa and beyond, with leading ICT ministers across the sub-region lined up to grace the event. Participants for the conference will be drawn from operating ICT and telecom companies, GSM and CDMA operators, the banking sector, the legal profession, the oil and gas sector, government agencies, regulatory bodies, consumer advocacy groups, the academia, value added service providers and Internet Service Providers, among others.

 

Airtel’s sponsorship of the Congress at the Platinum category goes to underscore the importance the company places in ensuring that the current growth in the telecom sector, especially in West Africa, continues on the upward side.

 

culled from WAFICT site

Sagem Wireless now MobiWire…Launches Android UI For Smartphones

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MobiWire, formerly Sagem Wireless, has announced its open OS user interface software, Surface, as part of a strategic transition to focus on user experience and connected services integrated into branded consumer electronics (CE) devices and professional industrial applications.  MobiWire combines user interface software connected to cloud-based content with its award winning device design to take global and luxury brands mobile. From design to delivery, MobiWire connects brands’ customers to services through customized connected CE devices.

 

Building on the company’s 15-year heritage of mobile operator relationships and handset development, MobiWire delivers brand-customized wireless devices based on advanced open and standard compliant technology.  MobiWire enables its customers and partners to deliver connected CE devices that quickly and economically allow them to engage with their consumers in a new way. MobiWire works with retail and luxury brands like FNAC and Porsche Design, device OEMs, and industrial device systems integrators to design, develop and deliver connected CE devices based on industry standard reference platforms.

 

A key part of this focus on connected CE devices is the MobiWire Design Lab and its most recent patented invention, Surface, an enhanced Android user experience.  Surface simplifies the complexities of Android by surfacing content and applications so they are easy to access and use. “With our increasingly powerful handset and tablet devices, the user interface, both physical and digital, can open or limit the potential of the device and the services it delivers.  Using intelligence to improve experience, Surface presents content from applications and the web, removing the need to navigate between them and simplifying access to a connected experience,” said Jerome Nadel, EVP User Experience at MobiWire.

 

MobiWire works with brands to deliver connected CE devices with a distinctive and customised user experience that is highly differentiated and customized for the requirements of specific user micro-segments.   System integrators work with MobiWire to develop smart connected devices for professional and industrial vertical markets based on a proven 2G/3G and forthcoming LTE core platforms.

 

MobiWire has also launched Surface UXTM, a surface user interface for Android smartphones that simplifies usage and encourages exploration and conversion. Surface UX builds on the full potential of the open Android platform to create a rich and intuitive user experience that combines personalization with a deeply branded and connected experience. MobiWire integrates user interface software connected to cloud-based content with its award winning device design to take global brands mobile.

 

Surface UX enhances the standard Android user interface (UI) to create a consumer-ready and engaging user experience by aggregating content and presenting it in a contextualized and easily navigable and surfaced UI. MobiWire has made both general usability improvements to the basic Android UI and developed a series of patented Surface Apps which act as ‘super widgets’, aggregating relevant content into a series of UI panes that can be defined and branded by the service provider. By providing a direct connection into a back-end infrastructure, MobiWire’s Surface UX helps drive users’ discovery, consumption and engagement with a brand’s digital assets, leading to service and mCommerce conversion.

 

“We are already in a post-app world where silos of data are being superseded by an aggregated, real-time, multi-tasking user experience,” said Jerome Nadel, EVP User Experience at MobiWire. “As we look beyond apps, the user interface is a dynamic environment where multiple feeds of data, content and services come together to create a definable experience. By bringing the principles of relevance, context and intuition to the UI design process, Surface UX delivers a connected user experience that is unmatched in the way it takes full advantage of the power and flexibility of the Android platform, creating a UI that encourages usage and exploration, and simplifies conversion to buy services and products.”

 

“An optimized Android UI simplifies the out-of-the box experience, encourages usage and device mastery” said Sylvain Gommier, director of User Experience at MobiWire. “The general improvements to the Android UI, together with the patented Surface Apps, mean the content that matters most can be aggregated, surfaced and presented in a way that is consistent, easy to navigate and contextualized.”

[News Flash] Intel Develops Transistors for Faster Computers. Moore’s Law Is Alive And Into The Future

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The Associated Press reports that Intel has redesigned the transistor  thereby enabling it to power faster computers:

 

Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful.

 

The switches, known as transistors, have typically been flat. By adding a third dimension — “fins” that jut up from the base — Intel will be able to make the transistors and chips smaller. Think of how skyscrapers address the need for more office space when land is scarce.

 

The company said the new structure will let chips run on less power. That gives Intel its best shot yet at cracking the growing markets for chips used in smartphones and tablet computers. Intel has been weak there because its current chips use too much power.

 

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals. It is made of a solid piece of semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor’s terminals changes the current flowing through another pair of terminals. Because the controlled (output) power can be much more than the controlling (input) power, the transistor provides amplification of a signal. Today, some transistors are packaged individually, but many more are found embedded in integrated circuits. (wikipedia)

 

Transistor is the engine of modern economy. It is the building block of microprocessors. If it should advance as Intel stated, it will offer a new era in computing. Intel could be changing the game with a transistor that can consume lesser power. This will help them in the overall strategy of moving into mobility computing.

 

Oh yes, Moore’s Law stays alive. And for every 18 months, the number of transistors will double in a die and cheap complexity will grow even when prices are coming down.

 

Transistors are at the center of the digital universe. They’re the workhorses of modern electronics, tiny on/off switches that regulate electric current. They’re to computers what synapses are to the human nervous system.

 

Without those mosfets, the modern economy will not exist. Congratulations Intel.

Nigeria’s Telecoms Revolution Is 10 Years! Celebrations Underway

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AS Nigeria begins the countdown to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the telecoms revolution, which took off effectively with the commencement of GSM operations in August 2001, West Africa’s leading technology conference and showpiece, this year’s West African ICT Congress (WAFICT) and the W.Afri.Tel exhibition have been dedicated to serve as the main platform for the celebration of the country’s success in telecom in the last one decade.

 

And, to give vent to this declaration, the Minister of Information and Communications, Mr. Labaran Maku, has issued a formal letter endorsing the WAFICT Congress and W.Afri.Tel exhibition and urged mobile companies, ISP, government agencies and establishments, telecom operators as well as all other stakeholders, to support the events and join the ministry in giving a voice to Nigeria’s achievements in telecom.

 

In the letter, titled ‘To whom it may concern – Celebrating the 10the anniversary of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution: Special West African ICT Congress 2011, by IT & Telecom Digest’, endorsing the two events, which run concurrently, from June 14-16, 2011, at the new Eko Expo Hall, Lagos, the minister stated: “I am writing to confirm that the Federal Ministry of Information and Communications endorses and recommends IT & Telecom Digest Magazine to organise the West African ICT Congress 2011, as part of the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution.

 

“The publication will celebrate the progress that has been made during the past one decade in the Nigerian telecom industry. In doing so, IT & Telecom Digest will host the WAFICT Congress 2011, of which the Ministry is in full support and will participate fully. This is important to further open up our country to the rest of the world as the investment destination for telecom in Africa.

 

“In this regard, the Federal Ministry of Information and Communications officially endorses WAFICT Congress, which is being hosted alongside the 11th W.Afri.Tel Exhibition, in Eko Hotel, Lagos, June 14-16, 2011, and the Ministry hereby urges all businesses, companies, professionals, all stakeholders, government agencies, etc, to lend their support to the events and join us in celebrating this happy milestone: Ten years of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution 2001 – 2011.”

 

Commenting on the ministerial endorsement, Mr. Mkpe Abang, Editor-in-Chief of IT & Telecom Digest, organisers of WAFICT Congress, said: “By this endorsement, by this singular act, the minister has shown his understanding for the need to drum up Nigeria’s achievements in the telecom sector. It is common knowledge that the telecom sector in Nigeria is perhaps the really functional sector in the country in the last one decade and there is no amount of celebration that should be spared.

 

“Honourable Maku has also confirmed that Nigeria has a lot to offer and by that pronouncement in his letter, he confirms that he has the understanding of the currency of the times as well as the challenges for global economies which are now technology for the purpose of achieving globalisation, and for Nigeria and Africa, for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.”

 

Abang described the minister as “young firebrand, bubbling with ideas, stating: “In this day and time, every country needs young men and women, who are full of ideas, who are not afraid to take key decisions that can change their environments, men and women who are on top of their tasks and who can also take governance to the next level. Honourable Labaran Maku falls very well in this league, and this is why he recognises need to give a voice to an industry and to activities, like WAFICT and W.Afri.Tel, which actually fuel development and investment in the telecom sector and the economy in general.”

 

WAFICT Congress 2011, like last year’s edition, is being organised by IT & Telecom Digest, in conjunction with the UK-based Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), and has the theme: The Emerging New Frontier: – Opportunities and Potentials for Sustainable Growth in West Africa.

 

WAFICT Congress 2001 will run alongside the 11th edition of the West African International Telecommunications exhibition (W.Afri.Tel), organised by EMS of South Africa, of which IT & Telecom Digest is also the sole Nigeria agent.

 

Speaking further on preparations for this year’s event, Abang said that the interest from stakeholders and operators, national and international had been great.

 

“Whether you talk of the conference or the exhibition, the interest from both returning attendees and exhibitors as well as from sponsors and speakers has been great. And, coupled with the fact that this year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Nigerian Telecom Revolution, the interest generated by these two events is understandably overwhelmingly high,” Abang stated.

 

culled from WAFICT

Congratulations Wild Fusion – Nigeria’s First Google AdWords Certified Partner

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Techloy reports that WildFusion has become the first Google Certified Adwords Partner in Nigeria. Wild Fusion is a digital marketing firm in Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria. Services include Online Media Sales, Mobile Marketing, Adwords Service, Web development/Analytics service and Social Media

Wild Fusion has been certified by Google as one of the search company’s AdWords Partners, thus making it become Nigeria’s first Google Certified Adwords Partner.

Google AdWords Certified Partners are online marketing professionals, agencies and other individuals – such as search engine marketers (SEMs), search engine optimisers (SEOs) and marketing consultants – who currently manage or want to manage AdWords accounts.

Google AdWords Certified Partners usually go to extra lengths to attain this status, including passing an AdWords Partner exam, which demonstrates their in-depth knowledge of AdWords.

According to their site, Wild Fusion can help you promote your brand/products on top websites around the world including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mobile, BBC.com

Google has the following information about the company on Google Certification site

Company Details

Minimum accepted budget:
No minimum
Industries served:
All Industries
Countries serviced:
Ghana, Nigeria
Languages supported:
English
AdWords support available:
AdWords training (to self-manage in future), One-time account optimisation, One-time account setup, Ongoing account management services
Other services available:
Affiliate programmes, Auto-optimisation tools, Creative and design services, New media (mobile & social networks), Online display advertising, Search engine optimisation, Web design, Website analytics
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