NITDA - 10 Nigerian Startups to Feature at GITEX Technology Fair in Dubai

NITDA - 10 Nigerian Startups to Feature at GITEX Technology Fair in Dubai

Unknown   September 26, 2017   Comment  

Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has announced that it will be showcasing 10 Nigerian Startups at this year's GITEX technology exhibition and conference that will take place in Dubai for the 8th to 12th of October.

This information was made known in a statement issued by the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isah Ibrahim Pantami.

According to Pantami, this year’s tech ambassadors were meticulously picked after a highly competitive process anchored by the Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship, an arm of the NITDA.

The startups Nicademia, SIX, Tattara, Accounteer, Beat Drone, Cloudoria, Dropque, MyPadi, Ward Monitor and MTK e-Learning  would join their peers from over 60 countries at the second edition of the Gitex Start-ups Global Movement.

The Director General further revealed that the programme was inaugurated in the 2016 edition of Gitex as a global rallying ground for funding start-ups and exposing innovators to mentors and venture capitalists.

GITEX is the premier annual technology event in the Middle East, Asia and Africa hosting over 185,000 visitors from more than 140 countries.

Pantami said Nigeria would be promoting three thematic activities for its  participation this year on IT investment and exposure.

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He listed the activities as the Nigerian Pavilion, the Start-up Innovation Hub, and the Africa Investment Forum being put together jointly by the Nigerian government through NITDA and the UAE government through the DWTC, organisers of Gitex.

The African Investment Forum would be drawing participation from the technology business communities in Asia, Europe, the Americas and the rest of Africa, Pantami added.

He also revealed that NITDA remained committed to its mandate to build a technology ecosystem that would thrive on indigenous manpower connected to the global IT community, adding that young people were a critical focus of NITDA’s agenda to develop the IT sector.

The NITDA boss said, “Our young people are highly talented. With more training, exposure, funding and mentorship, a thriving IT industry can be encouraged to grow within international standards so that we can not only meet our local needs but also become an IT exporting nation.”

A brief on the 10 Nigerian start-ups being taken to GITEX shows Cloudoria as a web-based operating system, helping to improve access to computing in developing countries.

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Cloudoria is said to be an operating system re-imagined and built on web technology, a single software platform that runs across devices including smartphones, tablets, televisions and personal computers;

SIX -IoT is given as an electronic device using Raspberry Pi, Microcontrollers, Sensors and some electronics components. The SIX -IoT device provides Internet of Things-based solutions to road safety problems.

Nicademia is an online distribution platform for Africa-based inspired cartoons; Beat Drone is a drone service provider in the agricultural sector, the solution enable farmers to eliminate death of crops before harvest periods using the drones to execute 3D mapping of the farmland for proper planning.

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Dropque is a single-to-use one-way video interviewing tool that enables companies to assess candidates fit early on in their talent acquisition/recruitment process while MTK e-Learning is a rich learning, and teaching platform for running a versatile online training and collaboration programme for students, employees, partners or customers in time and tracking of training results.

Wardmonitor seeks to bridge the gap between parent and child while the child is in school. The solution allows children to be monitored by parents not just by schools or teachers alone.

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TStv Subscription packages & fees, Decoder price, Decoder features & Full channel list

TStv Subscription packages & fees, Decoder price, Decoder features & Full channel list

Unknown   September 26, 2017   Comment  

Cable and digital television is not a new thing in Nigeria. In fact, cable TV has been existing for little over two decades now.

But in all those previous years, at least a decade, up until now, their has been no true satisfaction as, subscription rates are surging higher and you still get charged regardless, whether or not you use the subscription. TStv, a pay-as-you-use cable TV, is here to change all that.

In this post, you will find out the price for the TStv decoder, TStv decoder features, where to buy TStv decoders, TStv subscription packages and fees, as well as the full channel listing on TStv and more.

What is TStv

TELCOM Satellite television, TStv, is a Direct-to-Home (DTH) Cable TV provider in Nigeria, that will commence operations in Nigeria from October 1st, 2017 which happens to be Nigeria's independence day.

According to the owner of TStv, Bright Echefu, TStv will be distributed on ABS-3 Satellite which is located at a prime video neighborhood of 30W with little interference. TStv was birthed by a partnership between ABS, an European based television and Telecom satellite.

Unlike DStv and Gotv, TStv will be the first cable TV in Nigeria to offer pay-as-you-use. With this, TStv subscribers can only pay for what they consume. So, if you'r low on budget and you feel like just subscribing to watch football for the weekend, you have the power to do so now with TStv. Also as a TStv user, you will be able to 'pause' your subscriptions for up to seven days in a month.

So, please follow me through this post as I breakdown the benefits of TStv decoder, how much the TStv decoder will cost, TStv subscription packages & fees, TStv full channel list and TStv decoder features.


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Benefits of TStv

TStv comes with a number of benefits that distinguishes it from other cable TV operators currently available in Nigeria, and a few that are similar.

The highlight of TStv is that it comes with a feature called pay-as-you-use. As mentioned above, TStv subscribers can opt to pay for just what they consume. As a TStv subscriber, you will also be able to 'pause'  your subscription for a duration of seven days every month. This will be the first from any Nigerian cable TV provider.

TStv provides users with up to 20GB of data every month, that can be used over Wi-Fi for internet connectivity. With this data, TStv users can browse the internet and gain access to websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. You will also be able to top up the data when it gets exhausted before the stipulated date and time.

TStv comes with over 13 sports channels, some of which will broadcast live football matches from the top leagues across the world including English Premier League, Spanish Primera League (LaLiga), German Bundesliga, Italian Seria A, French League 1 and so on.

This is quite cool because you wouldn't have to pay huge amount of money to watch football matches live, especially the widely watched English Premier league.

TStv comes with video call conferencing which enables you make video calls with friends and family that are also using the TStv decoder via an Internet Protocol (IP).

TStv decoder provides you with 50GB of storage space which you can use to record and save various content ranging from Sports, Movies, Documentaries and lots more, offline, to watch later. TStv also gives users access to unlimited external recording to save even more content with the use of an external hard disk.

TStv gives users access to over 200 channels that cuts across Movies, Sports, Documentary, News, Music, General entertainment, Kids, Religious, Events, Health, Fashion, and Lifestyle channels.

TStv also offers channels in High Definition (HD), as well as Standard Definition.


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TStv Channel list

There are over 200 TStv channels you can watch ranging from Sports, News, Entertainment Documentary & More. Here is a comprehensive list of channels offered on TStv.

TStv Sports Channels

• Star Sports
• beIN Sports 2HD-10HD
• beIN Sports MAX 4HD
• beIN Sports NBA
• beIN Sports Global
• beIN Sports MAX (bein Sports 1-10)
• Fox Sports
• Fox Sports 2HD
• Euro Sports News
• Euro Sports 2
• Kwese Free Sports
• Kwese ESPN
• MS Extreme
• TS Sports 4 HD
• TS Sports 2
• TS Sports 3
• Yolo Sports HD
• Kombat Sports

TStv News Channels

• BBC America
• CNBC
• Aljazeera
• BBC Radio 2
• TVC News
• United States of America Embassy
• Sky News
• Arewa24
• AIT
• Core TV News
• France 24
• CCTV News
• Channels TV
• Bloomberg TV
• DW
• Fox News
• TRT World
• Press TV
• NTA
• Arise News
• TV360 Nigeria

TStv Movies Channel

• Star Movies
• Grande Movies
• Grande Comedy
• MBC action
• MBC 2HD
• African Movie channel series
• Liberty Tv
• MBC Bollywood
• Wazobia TV
• Wap Tv
• Viasat TV
• Fine Living
• Fox
• Fox Life
• Investigation Discovery
• MBC4
• Mbox HD
• PCTV
• Star Gold TV
• Nollywood TV
• Z Cinema
• E Entertainment
• Ben Bridging The Gap
• BET
• TS Novella
• TS Movies HD
• TS Series

TStv Kiddies Channel 

• Nickelodeon
• CN Cartoon Network
• Disney Channel
• Boing
• Jimjam
• Baby TV
• Panda Biggs

TStv Music Channel

• Trace Urban/Africa
• HITS TV
• MTV Base
• TLC (HD)

TStv African Channels

• Riwa Ndu TV
• TS Hausa
• TS Igbo
• TS Yoruba

TStv Religious Channels

• Dove Television
• Emmanuel TV
• Sunna TV
• Qraa TV
• Mountain of Fire And Miracle Ministeries
• EWTN
• TBN Network

TStv Documentary & Other Channels

• Discovery Channel
• Nat Geo Gold
• AD
• National Geography Channel
• Discovery Health TV
• Fashion One
• AHTV

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TStv Decoder Price  & features

If you are not entirely impressed with all the features that comes with TStv, the affordability of TStv and the cheap subscription rate it offers is enough reason to get one. When you buy TStv, it comes with a dish and a decoder, and both of them will be available for 5,000 naira. 

The TStv decoder is packed with a lot of features and extras in terms of both hardware and software. Below are some of the features that comes with the TStv decoder;

• Up to 20GB of Data for Internet connectivity.

• Back-Office End-to-End Solution that helps deliver TV, Video-On-Demand, and interactive services to end users who use LAN. Suitable for usage in schools, hospitals, hotels, communities, securities firms and so on.

• In-built fast Wi-Fi, up to 802.11ac, 1 GBit/s Ethernet and USB 3.0 interface. 

• Supports built-in Bluetooth 4.0, RF for hybrid remote controls and support of Smart Home services via Zigbee/Thread standard.

• Multichannel video recording via fast external USB 3.0 hard disks up to 50 Gigabyte capacity.

• Video calls support with other TSTV subscribers via IP.

• Unlimited external recording is also available, by plugging in your own external storage device for recording your favourite programs, for e.g.: if you plug in your own external hard drive of 1TB, you can record up to 1900 hrs of content (For Standard definition channels only).

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TStv Subscription Packages & Fees

One of the cool things about TStv is the subscription rates. For as low as 200 naira, a TStv subscriber can gain access to various channels with internet data allocation of 500 megabytes. Below is the complete list of TStv Subscription packages and prices.

TSTV BOUQUETS	PRICES	DATA ALLOCATION
TStv Monthly Bouquet	N3,000	10GB
TStv 2 weeks Bouquet	N1,500	5GB
TStv 10 days Bouquet	N1,000	3GB
TStv weekly Bouquet	N750	2GB
TStv 3 days Bouquet	N500	1GB
TStv Daily Bouquet	N200	500MB

As you can see above, each subscription rate comes with its own data cap. The data offered can be used to browse the web on connected devices via hotspot.


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Where To Buy TStv Decoder

TStv decoders will be available in major cities in Nigeria such as Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt, Ibadan, Ogun, Kano, Kaduna, Taraba, Enugu, Abia, Anambra and many more when it launches on October 1st. The price of the TStv Decoder and dish will be 5,000 naira only.

Major dealers are currently being updated on TStv's official website, so visit the website here to see where to buy in your state. You can also sign up to become a dealer here.

So, do you feel TStv will give DStv and the likes a run for their money with all the mouth-watering features they offer? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section.

Also let us know what you think about all the features TStv is offering, how much TStv costs in your location and if you will be tempted to buy one, or two? 😃

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Gionee M7 Price, Review, Full Specifications & Features

Gionee M7 Price, Review, Full Specifications & Features

Unknown   September 26, 2017   Comment  

Gionee M7, after several weeks of rumours and leaks is finally here. The most obvious physical attribute to Gionee M7's credit is the new and trendy near bezel-less display, that is 6-inches in size, which Gionee dubbed 'FullVision'. Elsewhere the Gionee M7 is rocking dual 16MP and 8-megapixel back cameras, a huge 4,000 mAh juicer, the latest Helio P30 chipset from Mediatek and Android 7.1 Nougat out of the box.

Gionee M7 Key Specifications

• Display Size : 6.01 inches AMOLED  Touchscreen
• Display Resolution: 1080 x 2160 pixels, 402 ppi 
• CPU: Mediatek Helio P30 Chipset
• RAM: 6GB
• Internal memory: 64GB
• External Storage: Yes, up to 256GB
• Rear  Camera: Dual 16MP camera & 8MP, with LED Flash, autofocus
• Front Camera: 8MP Camera
• Battery: 4,000mAh
• Fingerprint sensor: Yes (rear-mounted)
• OS: Android 7.1, with Amigo 5.0 UI
• SIM Type: Dual SIM version (micro)
• 4G LTE: YES
• Price: from N150,000

Design & Display

Gionee M7 is a premium looking smartphone that comes with a sleek look and feel. It is slimmer than the Gionee M6s Plus and features a unibody design. The sides and edges are slightly rounded to help for better handling.

The Gionee M7 is quite slim considering the large battery unit in it. At 7.2 mm, the Gionee M7 is even slimmer compared to Apple's new iPhone 8 which is generally smaller in terms of size. The Gionee M7 comes in Sapphire Blue, Star Blue, Maple Red, Champagne Gold, and Black.

The Gionee M7 sports a large 6.01 inches AMOLED 'FullVision' display with 18:9 aspect ratio. The display has a resolution of 1080 by 2160 pixels and a pixel density of 402 ppi. All of this should translate to a great multimedia experience and text readability.

Camera

The Gionee M7 packs dual cameras on the back. A 16MP + 8MP, coupled with autofocus should serve you well if you take lots of photos and videos. LED flash is also available for enhancing photos in low lit areas. The cameras can shoot FHD video at 1080 pixels.

For selfies, the Gionee M7 comes with an 8MP camera and a LED flash as well.  Other features that comes with the Gionee M7's camera include geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, auto HDR, and  panorama

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Performance & Storage

The Gionee M7 is a powerhouse as it powered by Mediatek's latest chipset; Helio P30. The chip has 8 Cortex A53 cores, with 4 running at 2.3GHz while the remaining 4 are clocked at 1.65GHz. The processor is also paired with a whopping 6GB of RAM. With this kind of power, the Gionee M7 should handle even the most rigorous multitasking like a champ.

On the Gionee M7 is a massive 64 GB of internal storage, which you can expand via microSD card, up to 256 GB if you crave more storage space for media content to be enjoyed on that stunning display.

Battery & Other Features

The Gionee M7 gets its juice from a 4,000 mAh battery that is non-removable. This battery should easily last a full day of use without much hassle. The Gionee M7 also supports OTG, which means you can attach a dongle to it via the USB port.

The fingerprint sensor can also be found on the back of the phablet.

Price & Availability

The Gionee M7 is not yet available in Nigeria or Kenya. When it becomes available, you will be able to purchase the Gionee M7 at leading online stores in your country.

Gionee M7 price in Nigeria should range between ₦153,000 ($422) to ₦190,000. Gionee M7 price in Kenya will range between KSh44,999 to KSh60,999. Please note that prices of the Gionee M7 may vary depending on your location.


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Alternative Smartphones to The Gionee M7

Other phones in the Gionee line up you can consider is the Gionee S10, Gionee S10B and Gionee S10C. 

The Infinix Note 4 and Note 4 Pro are also good options as they offer large displays and a ample amount of storage and RAM, with large battery units as well.

The Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 are also great alternatives to the Gionee M7 and they carry a much lower price tag.

Gionee M7 Full Specs Sheet

	NETWORK
2G Network	GSM: 850/ 900/ 1800/ 1900 MHz
3G Network	WCDMA: 2100 MHz (900/1700/1900/2100 MHz)
4G Network	LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500)
SIM	Dual Nano SIM (Dual Standby)
Status	Available: September 2017
	BODY
Dimensions	–157.0 x 76.0 x 7.2 mm – Weight: 180g
Keyboard	Touchscreen
Colours	Sapphire Blue, Star Blue, Maple Red, Champagne Gold, Black
Cover	Metal
	DISPLAY
Type	AMOLED FHD, multi-touch touchscreen with 16m colours
Size	6.01 inches, 1080 x 2160 pixels, 402 Pixels Per-square Inch
	MEMORY AND OS
Card slot	MicroSD, up to 256GB
Internal	64GB
OS	Android 7.1 Nougat -Amigo 5.0
Processors	–Octa-core (4x2.3 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4x1.65 GHz) Cortex A53 CPU – Mediatek Helio P30 chipset – Mali-G71 MP2
RAM	6GB RAM
	AUDIO
Alert types	Vibration, MIDI, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker	Yes, Mono loud speaker
Audio port	3.5mm jack
	CONNECTIVITY
2G	GPRS – up to 85.6 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps
3G	Up to 42.2 mbps downlink; Up to 11.5 mbps uplink
4G	LTE Cat4 up to 150 Mbps downlink / up to 50 Mbps uplink
WIFI	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot, Wi-Fi direct
Bluetooth	Version 4.2, A2DP
GPS	A-GPS
NFC	Yes
USB	micro-USB 2.0, USB OTG
	CAMERA
Primary	– Dual 16MP + 8MP, autofocus, LED flash – FEATURES: Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, auto-HDR
Video	1080p@30fps
Secondary	8MP Camera with LED flash
	BATTERY
Capacity	Non-removable 4000mAh Li-Po battery
Stand-by	Undefined
Talk time	Undefined
Music play
	OTHER FEATURES
Sensors	Fingerprint (rear-mounted), Accelerometer, Proximity, Geomagnetic, Compass and Light sensor
Messaging	SMS, MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser	HTML5
Java	No
Miscellaneous	– FM radio, recording – MP3/AAC+/WAV/Flacc player – MP4/H.264 player – Photo/video editor – Document viewer
	PRICE
Price range	Nigeria: About N153,000 to N190,000 ($422) Kenya: About KSh 44,999 to Ksh 60,999

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Last Modified on 25th September, 2017 by Habib Abdulsalam.

[Video] Hey guys, here are the 8 things to love about the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus

[Video] Hey guys, here are the 8 things to love about the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus

Unknown   September 24, 2017   Comment  

Apple had just recently released the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus and I made an in-depth post on the new devices here and here.

But that is not the gist. The new iPhones are now available for purchase and Apple has released a new video to make you realize what you are missing if you don't purchase any of its new iPhones.

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The new video, in a bid to market the new phones, reveals the '8' things to love about the iPhone '8'. The quick and concise video highlights what Apple feels is the main selling points of the duo.

But if you can't watch the 47 secs video, these are the 8 things Apple says you will be missing out on. The iPhone 8, according to Apple, is special because it has the most durable glass ever in a smartphone, the new Portrait Lighting mode for pictures, wireless charging, the most powerful and smartest chip, a better camera, water resistance, a new Retina HD display (although the only new thing here is the True Tone support), and augmented reality functionality. 8 standout attributes for the iPhone 8 as described by Apple.

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So, do you find this features compelling enough for you to put your money on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus? Tell us in the comment section below.