Telecommunication Technology: Issues and Trends In West Africa

By Peter Diamandis Every month I hold a webinar for my Abundance 360 executive mastermind members that focuses on different exponential technologies impacting billion-person problems. This week I interviewed Padma Warrior, CTO and Chief Strategist of Cisco, to discuss the Internet of Everything (IOE). Padma is a brilliant and visionary person, one of the most important female leaders of this decade. She first got my attention when she quoted a recent Cisco study placing the value of IoE as a $19 trillion opportunity. This blog is about how you can tap into that $19 Trillion. What is the Internet of Everything (IoE)? The Internet of Everything describes the networked connections between devices, people, processes and data. By 2020, the IoE has the potential to connect 50 billion people, devices and things. In the next 10 years, Cisco is projecting IoE will generate $19 trillion of value – $14 trillion from the private sector, and $5 trillion from governments a...

Written by Laura Gómez Lausin Have you thought about an online store for wholesale business?  There are sectors of E-commerce that are becoming saturated, and the wholesale business might be your opportunity to gain a foothold in online sales. If it suits your project and you decide to look for new horizons you will need a few tips to make contact with your clients, and here they are. 1. B2B customers, but also B2C The clients of a wholesaler are other businesses, but Internet is infinite and anyone can land on your page . Make your communications clear and directed at your main public (businesses) but don’t close the door to any user who might be interested in a particular product. For example: Dining room table at 48€ (VAT included) – Buy 10 and the price drops to 37.99€ each. Don’t stop thinking about your main customers and specify that wholesale orders are invoiced to companies and the self-employed , as this is a distinguishing factor when ordering in bu...

TI Obsoletes FPGA Mixes ARM cores with DSPs and programmable logic R. Colin Johnson PORTLAND, Ore. — Texas Instruments (TI) — king of the DSP — is at it again, this time targeting the FPGA market with a 9 processor jack-of-all-trades device capable of radically downsizing mammoth avionic, military, test and measurement and medical instruments — from backpack radars to portable magnetic resonance instruments (MRIs). According to TI, the Keystone-II (66AK2L06) solution allows devices using it to be 66 percent smaller, consume 60 percent less power, cost 50 percent less and are 3-times faster to market than using an FPGA solution. "Our newest Keystone II system-on-chip [SoC] has two ARM's Cortex A15 MPCore processors, four 1.2 GHz C66x DSPs [digital signal processors) and four programmable accelerators," Robert Ferguson, communications processors business development manager at TI told EE Times. TI's FPGA-killer is an SoC with two ARM cores, four DSPs...

    WPP hits 30 next month. Rather a lot has changed since 1985 when, along with my then business partner, I invested in a manufacturer of wire shopping baskets and teapots. If I had to reduce those changes to a single phrase, it would be “geography and technology”. Thirty years ago China’s GDP was about $300 billion; today it’s more than $10 trillion. Thirty years ago Tim Berners-Lee had yet to invent the web; today Google is arguably the most valuable brand in the world. The West is still in denial about the rising power of the so-called emerging economies (an outmoded expression, since the biggest have not only emerged, but left more mature markets trailing in their wake). Many seem to want China to fail, which is the definition of shooting yourself in the foot, because the global economy needs it to succeed. Others point to slowing growth of “only” seven per cent. I remain an unabashed Chinese bull. It’s now our third biggest market after the US and U...

The National Broadcasting Commission has commenced the process of issuing licences for the provision of free view digital television content. The Director of Public Affairs, NBC, Mr. Awwalu Salihu, said the regulatory agency, after a detailed assessment of the current television market, observed serious gaps in the content available to serve the social and economic needs of Nigerians. It, therefore, invited prospective service providers to submit proposals for meeting the gaps as a preliminary step towards applying for licences. The regulatory agency categorised FTV digital television into several genres, including general entertainment, kids, lifestyle, sports, movies/soaps/sitcoms, music, documentaries and factual/news. It stressed that the channels would strictly comply with the programming mandates of the commission as well as the Nigerian Broadcasting Code and other conditions to be set out in the licences to be granted to successful applicants. “In keeping wit...