Where is nwalla.com – the old classified Nigerian website? We could not see any content when we visited the site (we got the cached page). Did it move? Or has it done the unfortunate? Gone .gone? Let us know. We want to know what is going on with this classified website that has a lot of promise when it started.  

The website is very scanty but it communicates in few words all it needed to do. Identified (good name guys) is a social media career building and development tool that harvests professional data across all the social ecosystem and then presents all the data in a cool nice way. Using the data, one can form a professional opinion about the subject. In their website, they used the Facebook analogy:   Your Facebook network is full [...]

An asynchronous circuit is a circuit which is not governed by a global clock, but uses hand shaking communication protocol to communicate. It is largely an autonomous circuit and is delay insensitive.   Under a digital design paradigm, the design of asynchronous systems can be concisely described using high level languages. A programming notation, Communicating Hardware Processes (CHP), is used to provide a basic set of constructs that provides the specification of the circuit to [...]

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Nanotechnology, the science of minuscule molecule, is advancing with potentials that can radically alter the structures of modern commerce, industry and culture. It promises to disrupt global markets and transform industries through low cost, high efficiency and large capacity tools, processes and products. A transformative technology with ability to evolve a new industrial revolution offers many national opportunities and threats. Nations with capabilities to create or adopt and consequently diffuse the technology applications will amass [...]

It is getting very exciting – mobile payment will be huge in Nigeria. We got this piece from Nairaland.   Mobile Payment is a phone-only financial service without formal banking accounts. All banking activities starting from money savings, payments for goods and services, access to cash, etc can be carried out on mobile devices, 24/7. Subscribers of the service can perform wide range of financial transactions using thier mobile phones. Transactions such as:Save Money / [...]

We have wanted to bring Bookneto to you, but have struggled to know what they do and the impacts. This is what they have on their About page   We built Bookneto so that students, like ourselves, can drive their own learning by interacting with peers from all over the world who share the same courseware. With Bookneto, college students who are often limited to their Professor’s understanding of the material covered in their classes [...]

  It was a kind of a surprise.  We were in Yahoo email when we saw an e-reader with the name Kobo – and the interesting aspect is that it is named Kobo. And that Kobo is trademarked. Is Kobo not the Nigerian lower currency? Does it mean that this product cannot move in Nigeria where we are sure all of us will violate the trademark since we use Kobo every day.   The Kobo [...]

If you have been using Facebook for posting and messaging, you would have noticed a change in their ad algorithm.  Now, as you type, most times, the ads will be changing based on the content of your post or message. It has become real-time and dynamic. The implication is that it has become more effective.   Try to send a message to someone and just include Brazil, you will notice immediately an ad from Brazilian [...]

These are some of the most pressing issues affecting students. Employment opportunities upon graduation Quality and affordable education Technology disruption and impacts on career   Quality and affordable education Many students are concerned on the quality and affordability of their education. According to many government statistics, many schools have or intend to increase tuitions to offset budget cuts by federal and state governments.  As the schools are increasing tuitions, they are also reducing some services.  [...]