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Google Day 1 Nigeria Report With Photo

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This is an update from last night one. We just added the photo that refused to be attached because of network issues. There is nothing much to be said than this program is great. Period.

 

We are already here for the business aspect of this program. Report will be filed as soon as the program  is over.

 

From yesterday report:

 

Yes, finally, the Google Day Nigeria took place, today.  The program was tweeted live by the fans of Google in Lagos – the Nigerian commercial capital city. Unfortunately for those that expected to participate and master all the acts of developing on Android, Chrome, sorry.  You still need to come to Fasmicro and learn Android!

 

Google is in Nigeria to sell its products and make money. But they are doing something great- empowering people. They are doing that but that was not what we really saw – empowerment will come tomorrow. Today, it was content to own the mobile and web ecosystem of Nigeria. The eyes are on Blackberry and I pity them. Sorry BB, you will be history soon if Google has its way. The energy, the interest and enthusiasm means the end of BB has cone in Nigeria. I have never seen a technical program that interested young men in Nigeria like this one!

 

Guys came in time and by early morning, it was agog with business. No African time – these boys know when to get up in time for business. They were here even before the registration people. It is boys in and there were many -indeed in 100s. It is estimated to bring up to 1000 guys before the event ends tomorrow. One will wish that Nigerian government will use Google to recruit talented minds to embrace engineering and we can fix that nation.

 

Nigeria should be very lucky that Google could find that number of developers in the nation. Good job Google and thanks for coming.

 

We took our seat waiting to learn the developing aspect of today’s event.

 

Then the keynote came – it was the best part of the day to me. It was delivered by the Country Manager, Juliet

 

She is my very own person from my part of the world; it was good seeing her live. Her statistics are not mind blowing. 180m people using Google in Africa – about the size of Nigeria. What happened to the other 4/5 of Africa? Then the good one – 380m mobile users in Sub-Sahara Africa. That was the one that got me excited because I was holding a copy of Ovim tablet. And then the dull one 91m internet users.

 

Let us summarize:

180m using Google in Africa (perhaps SSA)

380m mobile users in SSA

91m internet users (perhaps SSA)

 

What this means is that more people are using Google than internet in Africa and most likely they are going through another channel. I tried to figure out how more people will use Google than internet because Google lives on Internet. Immediately, I noticed that I might have got the numbers wrong in all the fun I had. Please do not quote these numbers as I am not sure. Oh yes, it is possible that more people can use Google because there many ways to get into Google than Internet? I need training!

 

Then she continued – 4m Youtube page view per day in Africa. That is awesome. How many of that translated to wasted man hours watching dancing feathers?

 

Simply, she got into business – Google wants contents and Nigerians should help to provide those contents.

 

Google was concerned about cost of bandwidth and is open to help Nigerians get online. Thanks Google for that – we need any help we can get. Some schools were mentioned – UNILAG (of course), UNN, Covenant University and others are part of the Google Nigerian University program.

 

Google is open to partner with developers and will not leave Nigeria until it has made all the money it needs in Nigeria. Google has been right, even from MTN, people are searching via their mobile devices and this has gone around 100% per year growth.

 

There was an introduction meeting on Android, API, Chromse, HTML5 and Google Maps. There was the emphasis that Google will launch some new products like Classified ads, Google Trader, etc. Google is really customizing its solutions to work for Nigerian terrain. Gmail SMS works on Starcomms and Glo. If you are building classified Ad business, get out now. Google is here. Period!

 

The only bad news was the delay in lunch. On a scale of 1 to 10, we rate Google 9. Why? They were able to prove that young Nigerians love technology and if you make it exciting they will come. Government, ask Google what the secret is. They made us all like to be known as developers.

 

Tomorrow lunch will be better because the business people are coming. Of course, I am also in. Hope they will not kick me out.

 

Google Nigeria Participant for Tekedia Intelligence Lab

[News Flash] Web4Africa Acquires Alireta – A Nigerian Hosting Company

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According to information on Alireta website which is now redirected to Web4Africa,Alireta – one of the web hosting companies in Nigeria, has been bought over by Web4Africa. This is coming after Web4Africa acquired Nairahost in December of last year.

 

1st May 2011: Web4Africa acquires web hosting firm Alireta. .
5th Dec 2010: Web4Africa has acquired Nairahost


There are elements of consolidation taking place in Nigeria mobile and web ecosystem as foreign and local investors begin to take it serious.  More local firms will continue to be bought over as investors look for cheap bargains on the arrival of the era of affordable broadband when the  fiber optic cable is completed, ushering a new era in Nigeria.

 

From Alexa,

Alirate is Web Hosting Nigeria, Reseller Hosting, and Dedicated Servers (alireta.com): Alireta provides Web Hosting Nigeria, Reseller Hosting, Dedicated Servers. Hundreds of Nigerian websites trust Alireta for their web hosting needs

 

Web4Africa: Web Hosting, Domain Name & Web Design services (web4africa.net): Offers Professional Web Design, Web Applications Development, Web Hosting, Domain Name Registration, and other E-Commerce Solutions, to clients worldwide. Accepts paypal, alertpay, liberty reserve, okpay and moneybookers

 

We are contacting the owner of Alireta to know if they can disclose more about the acquisition, especially the amount, if possible. If that works, we will share with you.

 

This is good news for Nigeria. We welcome this.

The Next Phase of Datacenter – Cisco Introduces New Technologies

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Cisco has introduced new technologies designed for new generation data centers. These technologies include  Cisco Nexus 7000 family, Nexus 5000 family, Nexus 3000, a new ultra-low latency platform, MDS storage switches, Unified Computing System, Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and NX-OS.

 

CISCO said the new technology innovation will simplify and accelerate virtualization for Cloud-Ready Architectures and that it intends to continues the integration of Unified Fabric, Unified Computing, and Unified Network Services into a holistic data center fabric designed to be simple, scalable and secure, delivering any application across any location, within the data center and to the cloud.

 

Through this latest advances with data center fabric convergence, it plans to create an end-to-end view of the virtualized data center network down to the virtual machine, helping to provide lower total cost of ownership, reduced complexity, better workload management and security in the cloud.

Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Is Up 20% in 2011 1st Quarter

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The worldwide mobile phone market grew approximately 20 percent closing at 19.8 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2011, according to report released by the International Data Corporate, IDC.

 

This development according to the corporation, was fueled by high smartphone growth, especially in emerging markets, and gains made by market challengers.

 

The IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, said that vendors shipped 371.8 million units in first quarter of 2011 compared to 310.5 million units in the first quarter of 2010.

Fujitsu Develops World’s Smallest Vein Authentication Sensor

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Ejiofor Agada
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Fujitsu claims to have designed the smallest contact-free palm print authentication sensor which can be used for biometric authentication in PCs. Existing palm print authentication technology requires a person’s palm to be held motionless over device in order to capture an image of the palm.Fujitsu said that its high-speed image-capture function can continuously capture up to 20 frames per second, as well as a feature that can instantly pick out the best image for authentication and automatically verify it. The result is that users do not need to hold their hand motionless over the sensor, as before, but can instead perform authentication by simply placing their palm lightly over the sensor.

 

The sensor is 29.0 mm wide, 11.2 mm tall, and 29.0 mm thick. The design is based on a photographic optical system that is half as thick as previous models. “This smaller size greatly increases the range of devices into which the sensor can be incorporated,” said Fujitsu.

 

Biometric authentication is increasingly being used in ID cards and passports to identify individuals based on their biological characteristics. The authentication system reads the pattern of veins in the palm or finger. It can be accurate and is more difficult to forge or impersonate.

 

Relying just on a password to keep the data secure on a laptop is not a great idea, especially if it contains very sensitive information. Drive encryption, and the ability to remotely wipe your machine are both becoming popular security options. If you want a uniqie way to identify yourself at login, though, the best choice at the moment is a fingerprint reader which some laptops ship with.

 

Fujitsu has actually improved upon fingerprint identification, however, and is pushing ahead with vein authentication sensors. These senors look at the palm of your hand and identify your vein pattern which is unique. The benefit of such a system is it requires no contact with the hand. The problems are various, though, with sensors being too big to deploy in a mobile device, and not being able to cope with any movement of your hand meaning lots of bad reads and an extended authentication process for the user. Those problems seem to have been solved now as Fujitsu has just unveiled its smallest and slimmest ever vein sensor, thought to be the smallest in the world. With its size,, it is small enough to be incorporated into a laptop or other portable gadgets.

 

Fujitsu managed to slim down the sensor significantly by using a new lighting system that fits into half the space of previous models. The result is a sensor that could be an option on your next laptop.
Fujitsu didn’t just stop at miniaturization, though. The other big problem was handling movement, so the new sensor was made capable of capturing multiple images at 20fps. That means it can pick the best image from a sample and get a clearer reading with a vastly improved success rate. It also means a faster authentication process for the user.

 

Vein authentication is desirable because it relies on an invisible pattern of veins making it very secure. It also requires no contact with the user’s hand making it hygienic for high-traffic authentication, and with Fujitsu’s new sensor it is now very fast and error free too.

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