Samsung Brings First Curved TV to Nigerian Consumers

Samsung Electronics West Africa has at a launch organized to unveil its new range of Ultra High Definition televisions introduced the world’s first Curved SUHD TV to Nigerian consumers.

To this end, Nigerian consumers now have the opportunity to purchase the new SUHD TV which marks a monumental leap into the future of television viewing, setting a new standard in premium UHD content and elevating consumers’ viewing experience to new levels.

At the unveiling of the TV, Managing Director at Samsung Electronics West Africa, Mr. Brovo Kim, said that the TV gives a new meaning to TV experience and consumers, providing users with easy access to desired content, an integrated entertainment experience and more choices than ever before.

Kim reiterated that the new SUHD TV highlight the most refined television experience ever, with the adoption of the latest technology that users should expect from Samsung’s smart TVs.

“The SUHD TV celebrates a major milestone in the UHD era, delivering superior picture quality with stunning contrast and striking brightness. Included in the product is the SUHD re-mastering engine which automatically analyses the brightness of images to minimize additional power consumption, whilst expressing excellent contrast levels. Images have much darker blacks and an elevated brightness two-and-a-half times brighter than conventional TVs, with twice the color adjustment points” he added.

Exploring the High Tech Wearable Future for Africa

From July 20-23, 2015, Africa and indeed the whole world will converge at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria’s political capital, for the 2015 edition of the Digital Africa Conference & Exhibition, and the third in a series, following two previous successful editions in 2013 and 2014.

The two previous events had provided the platform for renowned ICT experts to discuss the development of Africa’s ICT sector and proffer solutions to the challenges limiting the continent’s advancement to the point of digital singularity with the rest of the globe. This year’s edition is themed:“Expanding African Capacity for Digital Technology,” and is expected to address broad range of topics aimed at broadening Africa’s IT capability. ROMMY IMAH writes…..

One of the topics that’s high on the list for Africa’s digital transformation is Wearable Technology.  These are devices, unlike mobile phones, that are worn on the body and have built-in sensors to monitor certain functions (like steps taken or precise location) and then communicate information through Bluetooth and the cloud.

Bracelets, necklaces and garments that fuse utility with fashion, function with form, can make the daily life of Africans healthier, safer and keep them in better contact. They’ll enable everything from commerce to managing chronic illnesses. And they’ll revolutionize the fashion industry with clothing that interacts with the environment. The Wearables industry is still in its infancy, but the market is expected to skyrocket to $19 billion by 2018.

According to a 2014 IDC report, “The worldwide wearable computing devices market (commonly referred to as ‘wearables’) will reach a total of 19.2 million units in 2014, driven

Visafone Assures Customers On New Internet Data Experience

Visafone Communications Limited has added new capabilities to her bouquet of data services, offering entirely new and pleasant experience to her customers. This is coming on the heels of a successful commissioning of its upgraded data infrastructure, 

The company explained in a statement that in its usual proactive approach to service delivery, Visafone has deployed innovative technologies to improve the customer experience by offering network visualization, intelligent traffic management and increased value proposition to customers. 

According to the statement, the upgrade has ushered in features like usage notification at different thresholds by SMS, flash messages and instant redirection to notification pages to help customers renew their data plans even at zero data volume. Further, customers have the ability for self-service to manage their volumes, the release added. 

Already, a pilot group of customers has hailed the upgrade as timely, and consistent with the network’s determination to always provide its customers with reliable and consistent data speed. 

Visafone added that the new upgraded data plans which comes with more volume at the same price along with the additional convenience, makes the value proposition of its data solutions very attractive.

MTN Concludes 21 Days of Y’ello Care

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MTN Nigeria’s annual staff volunteerism programme, 21 Days of Y’ello Care, which focused on education, has come to an end.

The annual programme initiated by the MTN Group in 2007 encourages MTN staff in all its 21 operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East to volunteer their resources, time and skills to assist others and the communities they live and work in.

This year, MTN Nigeria engaged in a number of activities focusing on inculcating the reading culture in the Nigerian child and therefore, adopted the theme, “Investing in Education for All,” which was in consonance with the global movement to make education accessible and compulsory for all and sundry across the world.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Chief Executive Officer, MTN Nigeria, Mr. Michael Ikpoki said that the last 21 days were quite eventful and fostered conducive environment for learning in schools.

“Seventeen digital libraries were set up in primary and secondary schools across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. Training and empowerment seminars were conducted for one hundred teachers of the Lagos State Ministry of Education and a book reading session was organized for students to imbibe the reading habit in them,” Ikpoki added.

A major highlight of the closing ceremony was a keenly contested quiz competition amongst seven schools, which was eventually won by Gbaja Girls Secondary School and New Era Girls

Hayatudeen Chairs 2015 Digital Africa Conference & Exhibition

As preparations for the successful hosting of the 2015 edition of the Digital Africa Conference & Exhibition slated for July 20-23 at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, intensifies, organizers of the event have announced the appointment of renowned banker and economist, Mallam Muhammed Hayatudeen as the Chairman of the 3-day event.

Themed: “Expanding African Capacity for Digital Technology,” this year’s edition of Digital Africa Conference & Exhibition is expected to address broad range of topics aimed at broadening Africa’s IT capability.

One of such topics is Wearable Technology which is the next big revolution that will transform the way people live. Wearables are devices that can be worn by the user but are intended to interact with the wearer without holding keys or other form of manipulations.

But in a release signed by Dr. Evans Woherem, the Chairman of Digital Africa Global Consult Ltd, organisers of the annual show, the company expressed delight that Mallam Hayatudeen “whole-heartedly accepted to chair this international event where astute veteran speakers will explore and pontificate on emergent technologies that can boost the socio-economic development of Africa.”

The release noted that insightful and thought-provoking presentations and discussions on contemporary and futuristic technology concepts are featured in this year’s highly stimulating thematic sessions at the Digital Africa Conference & Exhibitions.

Mallam Muhammed Hayatudeen is remembered more as the first Nigerian bank managing

SAP Africa Trains 100 Nigerian Children at Africa Code Week

L-R: President, SAP EMEA, Mr. Franck Cohen; Principal, Ojodu Junior Grammar School, Ikeja, Lagos, Mrs. Victoria Kolawole; MD, SAP West Africa, Mr. Kudzai Dhana and Facilitator, Africa Code Week, Mr. Olajide Ademola Ajayi during the event…

SAP Africa has launched a software coding pilot project at the Ojodu Grammar School as part of the run-up to Africa Code Week (ACW) in October 2015.

100 children aged between 8 and 11 will be taught software coding skills in a fun-filled, hands-on workshop facilitated by SAP.

A new Harbor Research study has found that while 65% of today’s technology applications generate revenue, the number will rise to 80% by 2018. Although smart homes, wearables and sports markets currently lead in application development today, future growth will come from the healthcare and automotive sectors, as well as smart cities.

Tailored to youth skills development in eleven African countries, the ACW programme will target an estimated 20, 000 children (ranging in age from 8 to 24 years) participating in software coding workshops in South Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Tunisia.

Africa Code Week is being driven by SAP along with partners, Simplon from France, the Galway Education Centre from Ireland and the Cape Town Science Centre. Its purpose is to empower youth, teachers and parents with the language of software programming using a freely available Scratch system.

“SAP is committed to helping Africa’s youth become fluent in software coding, the language

Tecno Makes First Attempt on Windows

…….Launches New WinPad 10 With Intel & Microsoft

L-R:  Womiloju Olabanji of Intel Corporation; Yewande Oyebo; Mark Ihimonya, all of Microsoft Nigeria; and Attai Oguche of Tecno Mobile at the official launch of the new Tecno WinPad 10 

Tecno has launched the WinPad 10, its latest mobile device which would run on one of Intel’s Atom Processor for tablet. The device, which is a cross between the tablet and laptop would be available for sale across the country and is expected to offer users a whole new experience.

WinPad 10 is a 10.1 inch HD screen device and it is expected to offer consumers an entirely unique watching video and browsing experience.

The device comes with a 5.0 MP Back Camera and 2.0 MP Front Camera that give a captivating interface, virtual quality and a smooth operating experience on its preloaded Windows 8.1, while running on Intel Atom Processor Z3735F, Quad Core 1.83 Ghz, a 32GB ROM and 2GB RAM. The broader ROM and RAM also offer space to users to store and run apps at the same time.

The Tecno WinPad is more mobile than a laptop, more productive than a tablet and more affordable than an Ultrabook. It has dual “Boom” speakers with amazing surround stereo sound which offers high quality sound and brings a new experience of sound perception to its users, thus offering more than a triple package. 

Vice General Manager of Tecno Mobile Nigeria, Chidi Okonkwo said the new WinPad will help to expand the company’s market and provide new opportunities to those who desire to work on the Windows Operating System. 

“We are indeed excited to bring this product to the market along with new Windows Operating System and Intel’s very fast Atom Processor. We are offering those whose lives are mobile