First, how many websites do you see these days with the Facebook Like and Share buttons? Possibly, many, especially if they are in the business of trying to connect people. Having those buttons today is the hallmark or the definition of web 2.0. Developers and webmasters want to emphasize the readiness of their sites by reminding everyone that they have Facebook buttons.   With that invention, Facebook has left a lot of digital marks on [...]

Guns, swords and human braveries ruled the world for centuries. The old world was lead by weapons and the most powerful nations were the ones with the most sophisticated military army. But in our time, that is changing. Yes, arsenals matter, but for the relative peace of the modern world, what rules the world is the economics.   Irrespective of your warheads, if you do not have the economic power and leverage, many will seldom [...]

A few decades ago, firms ruled supreme in getting the best profit margins out of their customers. It was an era of optimizing for the maximum possible profit. Market was very opaque because information was very expensive and untimely. Customers could not track price changes in real time. Even when they get the comparative prices, the distance to the other shop was a huge barrier. So in most cases, customers would knowingly pay high prices [...]

  Right in Silicon Valley, California, after a MeetUp, the founder of Rlabs, Marlon Parker,  and Fasmicro Founder through the bits and bytes network concluded a partnership for Jamiix to arrive Nigeria. Both have met in TEDxAmsterdam last year and this discussion has taken more than six months.  It was 3 minutes to midnight, on Sunday, when the deal was concluded.   JamiiX has looked set to be the next Ushahidi to emerge from Africa. [...]

Google App Inventor is an application provided by Google that allows anyone to create software applications for the Android OS. It uses a graphical interface, very similar to Scratch and the StarLogo TNG user interface, that allows users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can run on the Android system, which runs on many mobile devices.   Course Outline Overview What is App Inventor? What you can do with App Inventor Setup [...]

We are used to hear organizations talk about meeting the needs of their customers. Need and want are major concepts in elementary economics. It could be confusing initially, but for good students, they always master the differences. While deficiency of need could cause severe negative outcome, want is not that critical. Nonetheless, there exist subjectivities in classifying individual or personal needs and wants; a topic for another day. So, from high school to business school, [...]

  Starcomms has unveiled 50 hr internet package to better serve its customers.   The 50-hour package on iZAP according to Starcomms, costs N3990 while the 1x component costs N2500. The service will last four fourteen days before a customer can recharge again. Before now, the lowest data subscription hourly planed for Starcomms Internet access was 100hours.   To make use of the 50 hour package, customers can recharge with their Starcomms phones, with recharge [...]

Microsoft Nigeria and Paradigm Initiative Nigeria will hold an informational for non-profit organizations:   Venue: Abuja   Date:  June 15 and 16, 2011.   Nigeria’s non-profit institutions play a major role as they connect citizens with diverse services that they would otherwise have had no access to. Many of these NGOs work in rural areas or with underserved groups and could benefit a lot by employing the use of ICT tools. Building on Microsoft’s work [...]

Among the different leakage currents in the nanometer CMS, the subthreshold and gate leakage are the most dominant. While the latter is mainly due to electron tunnelling from the gate to the substrate, the former is caused by many other factors. As a result, the leakage control techniques to be discussed will focus more on subthreshold currents. Over the years, many techniques have been developed to reduce the subthreshold currents in both the active and [...]

Craft Silicon is a global software company, based in Kenya, providing  software solutions for core banking, microfinance, switching and electronic and mobile payments across 4 continents.  This is one of their products:   Opportunities at the base of the pyramid are driving the buzz today. One of the most significant areas in this category around the world is Microfinance. Craft Silicon, in recognition of the bright prospects and the opportunities, has developed BRmfs (Bankers Realm [...]