Ghana: Rlg TV Sets, Fridges to Hit Ghanaian Market This Year

hana's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) devices assembling giant, Rlg Communications Limited, has announced that the firm's electronic products including Television (TV) sets and fridges will hit the Ghanaian market this year.
The electronics branch of the most dynamic ICT firm in Ghana and beyond is expected to create 2000 jobs in the country.
This is also in the Chief Executive Officer of Rlg Communications Limited, Mr Roland Agambire's quest to create 1 million jobs for Ghanaian youth within some few years.
The Group Head, Legal and Corporate Affairs of Rlg Communications Limited, Mr. Prosper Harrison Addo made this known at the graduation of the first batch of the Ministry of Education Teachers' ICT and laptop distribution project in Accra, yesterday.
According to him, teachers would be one of the first groups to benefit, through schemes including hire-purchase, once production starts this year.
The nationwide Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training for 50,000 teachers project across the country was launched in December, last year, by President John Dramani Mahama.
The project aims at improving the teachers' knowledge base on ICT. They are also expected to pass on the knowledge acquired from the training to their pupils.
To this end, Rlg Institute of Technology, a subsidiary of Rlg Communications, had been contracted by government to train the teachers in the nationwide project.
The leading Ghanaian ICT firm will also provide the teachers with laptops for the first phase of the project.
Launching the project in Accra, last year, Mr. Mahama said: "it is necessary to train yourself in computer and ICT, both to make your work easier and also to be able to help your pupils in terms of the use of computer and ICT."
In the execution of this project, our understanding was that this programme would compliment an ongoing project by the Ministry of Education, which is the Basic School Computerization Project which has seen 60,000 laptops supplied to basic schools across the country already, Mr. Addo added.

Rwanda: Girls in ICT Rwanda Take Campaign to Schools

When carrying out school visits, Girls in ICT members speak to teenage girls and encourage them to consider ICT as a career option and also help them to understand and appreciate the importance of developing ICT skills in any career, writes Doreen Umutesi
About fifteen girls formed a group which they named Girls in ICT Rwanda. Its main objective is to tour schools and encourage more girls to take on courses in Information Communication technology (ICT.)

Information communication technology and social justice: exploring what works

ICT has the potential to transform activism, but what is the evidence of what works, and do organisations think enough about digital security risks? Join the debate Thursday 11 April

• Eliza Anyangwe
• Guardian Professional, Thursday 11 April 2013 18.49 BST

ICTs are often used by civil society organisations to monitor elections. But what works best? Photograph: Mike Nelson/EPA

Netbooks set for extinction by 2015, says IHS

Press release; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 16 April 2013]

Once a white-hot PC product that sold in the tens of millions of units annually, netbooks are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year, according to IHS iSuppli.

Samsung vs Apple: which smartphone do Reg readers prefer?

Satisfaction, loyalty and the iPhone boredom factor

By Team Freeform

Posted in Bootnotes, 16th April 2013 13:37 GMT

Reg readers feel strongly about their smartphones. This much was clear when Freeform Dynamics analysed the results of a recent research study looking at Reg readers' habits and activity with respect to smartphones, tablets, TV viewing and electronic gaming (discussed in a previous article),
Altogether, 1122 respondents took part in the survey and in total, the use of 1410 smartphones was declared. Two thirds of respondents indicated the use of one device, while roughly a third confirmed the use of two.

BlackBerry: 3 Million BB10 Units For Breakeven In Q1 FY14

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In a previous article about BlackBerry (BBRY) called BlackBerry: Why Z10 Margins Are Higher Than You Think, we calculated the ASP and gross margins for the Z10 based on BlackBerry's Q4 FY13 financials. We are now going to use those figures to calculate the unit sales needed for breakeven for Q1 FY14, as well as a sensitivity analysis to show how EPS would change based on changes to unit sales or service revenues.

New mobile age drives travel bookings

Digital-savvy consumers glued to their smart phones will transform the way the travel industry does business.

That was the verdict of a panel of technology experts speaking at the Technology Session at the two-day World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) 13th Global Summit 2013, which concluded 10 April at Jumierah Eithad Towers, Abu Dhabi.

Alibaba Brings Mobile OS to 6 New Phones, But No Big-Name Brands in Sight

After the kerfuffle between Alibaba and Google last summer over an Acer-made phone for Alibaba’s cloud-oriented mobile OS, it’s clear that China’s top homegrown OS cannot partner up with any handset makers that belong to Google’s not very open ‘Open Handset Alliance’. Today’s unveiling of six new Aliyun-powered phones therefore features an abundance of China-brand phone-makers, none of which will be familiar to the average Chinese shopper.

Thief preview part one: 'It's not a sequel. It's something new'

The ultimate cat burglar is back to stake a claim on the next generation of games consoles

Thief: a simple and blunt title, just like its lead character Photograph: Eidos Montreal

Once upon a time, a very bad man stalked the shadows of the video game world. Garrett, the mononymous anti-hero of the Thief games, presented a uniquely amoral figure compared to the usual selection of wise-cracking cops and right-thinking space marines. Even as developers began to experiment with more complex characters, few could compare to the brooding, cynical swagger of this avaricious figure.

Body-Scanner Technology Reveals Male Figure Hidden in Louvre Artwork

he imaging technique is termed terahertz spectroscopy and makes use of relatively weak electromagnetic radiation. In this instance it was used to look beneath the surface of Trois hommes armés de lances – a Louvre fresco from the a 19th century collection of Giampietro Campana – to reveal what looks like an authentic Roman fresco.

Fujitsu Develops Technology That Turns Paper Into a Touchscreen

 

Touchscreen interface for seamless data transfer between the real and virtual worlds

ujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.

Army’s Virtual Reality Plan: A Digital Doppelganger for Every Soldier

The Army wants soldiers of the future to be all they can be — onscreen and off. As the military’s enthusiasm for virtual reality training continues to grow, the Army’s got a new plan to make the programs freakily immersive: National Defense magazine is reporting that the Army wants to give every soldier a digital doppelganger — a custom avatar they can use throughout their stints in the military, and in myriad virtual training environs, from urban combat practice to cultural prep.
“You design an avatar that has the individual facial features of a soldier,” James Blake, the Army’s program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation, tells National Defense. “Then you add more of what he looks like, physical attributes. When you’re in your game environment, you’d like to have the physical and mental attributes of that individual reflected in that virtual world.”
But the avatars would be much more comprehensive than simple lookalikes. A soldier’s performance during physical training, for example, would be inputted into the digital replica’s athletic abilities. So unlike super-charged videogame operatives, soldiers who huff and puff running an 11-minute mile won’t see their avatars do much better. Likewise, soldiers with crappy real-life shooting skills will be liabilities to their virtual units during group training sessions.

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Sony Personal 3D Viewer review By Rasmus Larsen

Sony HMZ-T1 review

Sony has brought their 3D helmet concept to trade fairs as a concept a few times, but now the 3D solution is heading to a store near you. Called Sony Personal 3D Viewer (HMZ-T1) the 3D helmet creates an illusion of a 750-inch screen watched from a viewing distance of 20 meters, using two small OLED panels.

BlackBerry Q10 comes to Canada on April 30th, U.S. launch still up in the air

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Canadian BlackBerry (BBRY) fans who want a new device with a full QWERTY keyboard won’t have much longer to wait. MobileSyrup has captured a screenshot from a Rogers Wireless internal document showing that the QWERTY-equipped BlackBerry Q10 smartphone will launch on April 30th. While Canadians will get the new device by the end of the month, we still have no official word on when Americans will be able to buy the Q10, although recent rumors have claimed that it will launch on T-Mobile at some point in May.