The geography is naturally not conducive to agriculture. More than half of the land is desert; only 20% of the land is naturally arable. Other land area was mostly semi-arid, rendered unutiliasable by deforestation, soil erosion and other natural elements. Added to the terrible state of farmlands is also major water problem. With an uneven distribution of rainfall across the country, every single drop of water each year was needed.   The odds were indeed [...]

Hope you do like the accent of the British man. They own the English and we like them. We love the BBC and genuinely love the British. But if they allow this new man that is running that country to stay longer, they may lose their voices. David Cameron has turned out to be ineffective and simply not ready to lead the UK.   Last year or so we listened to this man via satellite [...]

This piece was written in 2006 and was well received in the technical community. It has been been published in IEEE Potentials. In it, we predicted the challenges of the ultra deep submicron CMOS technologies. Then we offered roadmaps to solving them. We just checked today; 17 people have cited it. Notice that due to how Google Scholar works, there are usually more citations than recorded. A single mistake in the title or the way [...]

The old giant that once ruled the Internet age is still struggling. AOL was able to increase advertising sales in the second quarter of 2011, first time that has happened in about three years. Unfortunately, that was not enough to stop the slide that has occurred mainly because subscribers are not renewing AOL web-access subscription services which generate more revenue for it. Based on that, investors punished the stock.   AOL stock  went down to [...]

Microscale Kaduna has announced that its  TV set Box which has been in development for over 6 months is now ready for the market.   The product is meant to be attached to a Flat screen (LCD or LED) TV with HDMI interface. It will turn a TV into an android based computer with lots of media and internet applications.   Some of the features include   Features a high performance Samsung Arm Cortex A8 [...]

In a word or two The ZTE Racer is a compact and capable budget Android device, ideal for first-time smartphone users.   The Design The ZTE Racer manages to live up to its name when it comes to design. The simple, all-black case is complemented by a chrome-effect strip beneath the screen for making and ending calls. Light and small, the Racer does have a slightly cheap feel to it – it is not a [...]

Microscale Embedded is training on Matlab in Kaduna. Matlab, from Mathworks, is essentially the language of technical computing. It is one of the mostly used tools for engineering data analysis in the world.   It is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables users  to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.   The program is scheduled as follows:   Date: 15th – 18th August [...]