Something big is happening to the Internet. It is changing daily and becoming more fragmented.  Standards are collapsing and individual firms and entities are creating their own structures. I have noticed that many of the new browsers do not share much in common.  Google’s Chrome is unique and very different from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.  Between Mozilla’ Firefox and Apple’s Safari, the only commonality is that either can take you to the World Wide Web.  The [...]

IEEE Potentials – one of the IEEE magazines  – has invited Dr. N Ekekwe to join its Editorial Board. IEEE is the world’s largest technical association with up to 500,000 members around the globe. The Potentials is read by technical students around North America. One of Dr. Ekekwe’s contributions will be helping to make Potentials distributed globally, especially Africa.   Dr. N Ekekwe is the founder of Fasmicro – the parent company of tekedia. We [...]

IBM is deploying a voice-based web technology in India to enable illiterate people find jobs by talking on their mobile phones. The “Smarter Employability Platform” that the company is developing with the Karnataka Vocational Training and Skill Development Corporation (KVTSDC), a government agency, aims to take advantage of the large-scale proliferation of mobile phones among poor and rural users, many of whom are illiterate and speak only local languages.   The Karnataka Vocational Training and [...]

    With the signing of  $650m loan with Nigerian banks, Etisalat just proved that Nigerian telecommunication industry is just starting. One way of knowing when an industry is healthy is evaluating the the loan structure in the industry. $650m is a big money especially for banks operating in Naira, but since the banks agreed to do this, it validates that the telecom market is huge and healthy. Simply, you must believe in Etisalat to [...]

Ethnic market  Lebara has launched a new sub brand, Lebara Money,  to provide customers with a range of financial services and products.   Lebara Money’s first product, the Lebara Prepaid MasterCard offers customers – particularity those from ethnic communities – an international money service where they can issue ‘sub cards’ to family or friends overseas.   The service has been developed by Lebara in conjunction with MasterCard and the Newcastle Building Society. Its leader, Yoganathan,  [...]

Simple question! What does Yahoo do these days? We mean what products are being offered by Yahoo to the customers.   Yahoo Buzz was shutdown on April  21, 2011 as promised:   As we all known that Yahoo! Buzz is the hot spot to share the best stories and you can talk about them with the people around the web world which help us to gain traffic to a website. A sad news is Yahoo! Buzz [...]

The tablet space is becoming very interesting.  A big one is arriving in the nation; Acer Iconia Tab W500.   Iconia Tab W500 has unique detachable keyboard that turns the thin slate into a full-fledged Windows notebook. The Iconia Tab W500 starts at N85,000 and includes the keyboard dock. These are some of the features from Amazon.   With the unique hybrid design you have the option to take this Tab on-the-go or insert it [...]

We took time to build this list, just to remind some of the earlier web adopters of some names we miss today. Most have gone bankrupt and very few allowed their domains to expire without redirecting them, after acquisitions.   We will continue to build this list as we go back to history to help understand the future. We just feel that a social media bubble is very near – a correction is coming and [...]

  When you are looking for collaboration tools, these are good ones   Basecamp – manage projects. They said Basecamp is the top choice for entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses, and groups inside big organizations. campfire – work in real time backpack – share internally highrise – manage contacts   They all make make collaboration productive and enjoyable for people every day.   Our loyal customers include designers, developers, freelancers, lawyers, accountants, architects, non-profits, charities, universities, [...]

  Backpack is an easy intranet for your business. Store, share, discuss, and archive everything that’s essential for your team. Safe and secure. It enables one to keep information in one place.   This company was launched in May 2005 and is one of the key web 2.0 applications. It is one of the earliest applications that were built on AJAX and Ruby on Rails.   Nigerian startup, Precurio, better talk to this company and [...]