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If Microsoft Could Become Five Fortune 500 Companies – A Deep Look Into Our Structure

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The monster that houses Windows OS. The beast that has ruled the world of PC for decades. Microsoft, irrespective of the noise from Google Docs, has no competitor in office tools. WordPerfect is history and we are all living in the age of Microsoft Office.

 

Yet, Microsoft has some really troubling problems. If you remove Windows and perhaps the server business, Microsoft loses a heartbeat.  In short, except those two businesses and (perhaps) its game section, the behemoth Bill Gates created is not firing very well in all cylinders. They may not really care because Windows is still growing money on trees. When you make $13b profit in 18b of revenue, you cannot be luckier. But that it happens today does not mean Microsoft must not learn to be adaptive.

 

If you ask the Tekedia – this is what we will do in Microsoft. We will break it into five companies.

Windows- this company should just keep adding cookies and that will do it

Office – Then it can work on Linux, iOS, BB, Symbian, and Android. They just create the stuff without regard to Windows

Bing Search – yes, they are yet to scratch Google

Server  – doing great and must be up to compete with Sun Oracle

Games – xbox is holding up well

 

Yes, we think that smaller pieces could bring the innovation out of these units in Microsoft. Of course, we do not see the numbers Mr. Steve Ballmer sees everyday.

Managing Engineering Risk – What Japanese Nuclear Disaster Teaches Us About Understanding Risks

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Think about this. If someone tells you that your design will fail once in 500,000 years, you will surely go home and rest. Your assessment is that the design and the system are good enough. You will go home and feel that you have done a great job. Not bad, in statistics, 1/500,000 is such a great number. If you take that into days, you will get more leverage.

 

Then consider that in 2003, the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan said that a fatality arising from radiation exposure will occur once per million years. Interpretation? We are safe and there is no problem – at least we have to live till next 500,000 years before we get to worry.

 

That is the problem. We spread risk and put it in the future without any reason. That a nation can have a nuclear disaster one per million years does not mean it cannot happen the week after or even the next day. The probability that it could be any day is evenly spread unless that risk or failure is tied to age or fatigue of the system. But when the events could be external like tornadoes, wars, earthquakes, etc, that chance of once per million does not matter. It is probable today as it is in the next million years.

 

So next time you see those statistics, do not think they will take ages to happen. For Japan, the million years chance happened after just 8 years.  They must be nuclear related disaster free to even justify that model of risk.

 

University of Lagos Hosts EduNet Africa 2011 – Exploring the Opportunities of a Connected Tertiary Institution to Pioneer Digital Revolution in Africa.

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EduNet Africa Conference 2011 is being hosted by the Centre for Information Technology and Systems (CITS) University of Lagos, Nigeria in collaboration with Emerging Media.

 

Date:7th and 8th July,2011

 

Venue:Afe Babalola Conference Centre,University of Lagos,Nigeria

 

The theme for this year’s Conference is:  Exploring the Opportunities of a Connected Tertiary Institution to Pioneer Digital Revolution in Africa.

 

http://www.edunetafrica.com/?page_id=8

 

This is the era of knowledge –based economy. The new information and communication technologies (NICT) especially the Internet has become a veritable tool for learning, research, business development and growth, mass communication, social empowerment for social changes. With the Higher education in developed world playing key roles in research of these new technologies and how they help in development(ICT4D) and transform businesses into great organizations like Google, Facebook,Twitter etc.High institutions of learning in Africa have paid little attention in harnessing the potentials of the Internet in learning, teaching, research, development and socialization.

 

For more, read here.

 

How Can Africans Be Accented When Languages Originated in Africa?

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The Economist reports that languages originated in Africa. Any reason why people say Africans have accents when we owned all languages? Read this interesting report from the Economist.

 

The obvious place to look for the evolutionary origin of language is the cradle of humanity, Africa. And, to cut a long story short, it is to Africa that Dr Atkinson does trace things. In doing so, he knocks on the head any lingering suggestion that language originated more than once.

 

One of the lines of evidence which show humanity’s African origins is that the farther you get from that continent, the less diverse, genetically speaking, people are. Being descended from small groups of relatively recent migrants, they are more inbred than their African forebears…continue here.

Four Govt Technical Colleges Get Infrastructural Support from MTN Nigeria

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In line with its commitment to promoting technological training in technical and vocational institutions in Nigeria, the MTN Foundation,  has selected four government technical/vocational colleges to receive infrastructural development and training support.


Under the new project initiative, the MTN Foundation will provide infrastructure upgrade including state-of-the-art equipment in six skill areas, namely electrical installation and maintenance, instrumentation mechanics, refrigeration and air conditioning, furniture design and construction, plumbing and pipe fitting, fabrication and welding. The project also covers supply of necessary consumables, materials and accessories, installation and application training and retraining for the teachers of the colleges, as well as relevant staff of the regulatory and examination bodies.

 

The four government technical colleges selected to benefit from the pilot phase of the project are Government Technical College, Ikorodu, Lagos State; Government Technical College, Owo, Ondo State; Government Technical College, Malali, Kaduna State; and Government Technical College, Farfaru, Sokoto State.apital Territory, Abuja.

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