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Nigeria Election 2011: Anyone Tracking the Apps Downloads? Let Us Know

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After the earthquake, many Japanese downloaded survival Apps on their iPhones and other smartphones. One iPhone App, Medical Encyclopedia for Home Use was #1 in the free App category in Japan. The company that tracks all these Apps, PositionApp, is not yet in Nigeria. Too bad!

Good for Nigeria, we do not have to worry about Yurekuru Call App that moved from #94 to #2 simply because it is a quake warning device.  With a new quake in Japan yesterday, one hopes that these survival Apps helped Japanese.  One thing is proven. Big events affect how people download and use Apps. These days in Japan, survival Apps are doing great.

As Nigerians go to polls tomorrow, tekedia will like to know the statistics. Are people downloading Apps? What is the pattern? This could be hard to find since without locally inspired Apps, we may not bother over election Apps.  Most of the Apps in iPhone are still foreign inspired and may not have relevance in Nigeria. There is an opportunity there in Nigeria to build Apps that have local value.  But all and all, if you have figured out how to track Apps download in Nigeria, please let tekedia know. This will include capturing the ones in the Apps Store like Android, iPhone and the locally hosted ones in the Apps websites.

Nigeria Tablet Warfare: Local Brands Ovim Plus, Inye 2, Ovim MiE Battle the Foreign Brands of iPad, Galaxy Tab and Others

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With MTN entering into the tablet business, it means the main player everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived. And it will help the industry. Why? Since MTN started the promotions and pushing the press release, Ovim tablet has sold better. We do not know why  for certainty– but we suspect cost. Though foreign brands are developing the market and telling people what tablets can do, when it is time to make a purchase, people look for an affordable brand. So instead of the foreign brands becoming a threat, they are indeed helping the local players develop the market.

The next phase of tablet business in Nigeria has just started. The local guys are dreaming big. TechLoy reported few weeks ago that Encipher plans to release Inye 2 in March.

Fasmicro (parent company of tekedia.com) and Microscale Embedded followed immediately with planned release of their Ovim Plus and Ovim MiE in late April. Many corporate partners have placed orders ahead of the release because of the good cost.  The companies have to bring more units of the present Ovim to meet demand. Though the Customs wasted time to market, the products are available now.

The tablet warfare will not be won by ad money, rather cost-efficiency.  The discretionary incomes of most Nigerians will not support a N125,000 tablet when a new laptop sells  below N50,000. You need to do better than laptop to penetrate the mass market as people remain very price-sensitive. Of course, unless you plan to serve only the bank CEOs and the top captains of the industry that can afford to transfer that cost to their companies.

The true battle will be fought this summer when all these local guys have all the new products in the market. They are coming with quality and great features that can compete with the foreign players. And they are affordable. We will see how it goes! But one thing is certain – as MTN advertises, it is helping the small boys spend lesser time explaining what the gadgets do and making more small sales. In that case, irrespective of what happens, everyone could benefit.

photo credit/ Inye 2 TechLoy, Huawei MTN/Techbrandreview

Ist Tablet from top is MTN Huawei, 2nd is Inye, 3rd is Ovim MiE, 4th is Ovim Plus

 

NCC Develops Guidelines To Prevent Unsolicited Messages, Mails and Calls

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The Nigerian Communications Commission has said it has developed guidelines to curb the menace of unsolicited messages, mails and calls.

If you suspect any fictitious thing, hold off and call your service provider. Otherwise  call NCC on 0800 2255 622 if the network operators were not able to resolve the issues. There is no charge for calling this number.

Notice that it could be a problem to give millions of subscribers one line to call, but at least there is a process. The government must develop a system that will enable its services to have an impact. One telephone line will not help, in this case.

Three Companies Apply to Incorporate “Semiconductor Industry Association of Nigeria”

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Three companies, Fasmicro, Microscale Embedded and Pawaak Technologies have applied to the  Corporate Affairs Commission to incorporate Semiconductor Industry Association of Nigeria (SIAN) as a non-profit towards the development of microelectronics and semiconductors in Nigeria. They will help government define and develop standards for training and education in designs and implementations in microelectronics, develop policy documents, among others. Their first major task is to establish process and design kits standards that Nigerian students can develop microchips upon. They believe they can help the nation establish a MOSIS like institution in Nigeria.

Membership is open to the general public and organizations in the related field. A website is being designed and will be communicated when it is ready.

Nigeria Tech News Summary – April 07, 2011

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The President Nigeria Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture NACCIMA, Dr Herbert Ajayi has urged the Federal Government to give more attention to sectors that could grow the economy. Dr Ajayi, who made the call in a press statement issued in Lagos, advised that more attention should be paid to agriculture, power supply, health and education. Ajayi said that lack of adequate attention to these sectors was responsibility for the slow growth of the nation’s economy.

 

The Federal government has set in motion, a machinery to revoke unauthorized sale of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited NITEL’s assets.

 

AS part of efforts to deepen the relevance of technology applications in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions, HiiT Plc, a foremost IT Training/Education brand in collaboration with National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has trained 110 lecturers in five universities across the country under NITDA Train-the-Trainer Scheme.

 

Sources: Punch, Guardian, Thisday, Sun, Vanguard, TechLoy

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