The Samsung Google Nexus S is said to have received an upgrade to Jelly Bean. According to GSMArena, the update is 114.4MB and brings the build number to JEO03E.

Nexus S is a smartphone device co-developed by Google and Samsung. The device was announced and released in December 2010 running on Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread).
For screen protection, the Nexus spots an Oleophobic coating or rather, a Contour Display with a curved glass screen. The 5MP Camera at the back ensures quality output for multimedia. The phone also has a secondary VGA camera at the front.

To handle loads of usage, Nexus S is powered with a 1 GHz Cortex-A8, 512MB of RAM and 16GB of Internal storage. This will certainly be capable of handling the upgrade.

As with most Samsung smartphones, the Nexus S does not have a radio. The phone also disappoints for the lack of a memory card slot.

Android 4.1, Jelly Bean is known as the fastest and smoothest platform. It allows for expandable, actionable notifications, has a new look for search and a smarter keyboard.

And as GSMArena say, If you are the impatient sorts and don't want to wait for the update to arrive over the air for your device then you can also download the update from Google's servers and flash it manually. Just make sure you are running a stock ICS ROM and have a custom recovery software such as ClockworkMod installed. And as usual, make sure you know what you are doing or wait for the OTA update.

Here is the direct download link to Google's servers.

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With a 71% mobile browser market share, Opera Mini is a strong choice for mobile browsing in Africa. Even the most basic internet enabled cell phone can support the proxy browser.

“Web is a universal right, and no device is more universal than a mobile phone.” Says Jon von Tetzchner Co-Founder, Opera Software.

To signify Africa’s mobile browsing power, a global survey showed that 107.1 million people used Opera Mini with 37% (40 million) of them coming from Africa. While Worldwide, Russia, Indonesia and India are the top 3 Opera Mini user countries.

Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana are noted as the largest mobile phone markets in Africa. In a recent global State of the web report by Opera, Nigeria with a massive 45 million Internet users passed Ukraine to take the #4 spot on the top 20 Opera Mini usage countries list.

The four African countries above are joined by Sudan, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia and Morocco to constitute the top ten countries using Opera Mini in Africa. Between them,  page views were seen to increase by 187% between June 2010 and June 2011. In the same period, unique users grew by 184% while data consumption rose by 199%.

As to where Africans users go to on the web, social networks and email services take the lead. And in-case you were wondering, turns out Facebook is the most visited site by Opera Mini users. Google, Youtube, Yahoo and Wikipedia are the other popular websites. And of-course, each country has those home grown websites that receive the most visits. Nation.co.ke (Kenya) and Vanguardngr.com (Nigeria) are some of the popular examples.

Handsets- With 100 devices submitted for review as the most used for Opera Mini browsing, Nokia leads with 89 devices. 7 of them are Samsung while Sony Ericsson, Alcatel, Apple and LG each have a single handset. The Nokia 5130 XpressMusic stands out as the most used handset.

Version 5 of Opera Mini comes with support for Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, Android and the iOS along with the previous versions support for Java ME platform.

How does Opera Mini compare to other Mobile browsers? In the last year, according to StatCounter the market share for Opera in Africa stood at 71%. Nokia comes second with about 16%, iPhone stands at about 3%, while Android, Blackberry and Samsung doesn't even cut 2% of browser usage in the continent.

Globally, it is Apple’s mobile browser Safari that has the largest global market share at 55%. Opera Mini comes at a distant 20% with Android browser closing in at 18%. Symbian and Blackberry hold the lowest market share at 3% and 2% respectively.

As phone and device technology improves in Africa, Webkit based mobile browsers are set enter the Africa market and challenge Opera Mini for a share its mobile browsing users.

India based InMobi, the largest independent mobile advertising network with offices on 4 continents among them Africa, has rebranded its logo.

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Users in Africa and the Middle East will soon be able to access the Wikipedia for free on their mobile phones. This comes after Mobile Operator Orange Partnered with the Wikimedia Foundation in an initiative aimed at increasing the reach of the foundation.

The initiative that originally started 2009 in Europe will now extend to more than 20 countries in Africa and the Middle East where Mobile Operator

Orange has coverage.

Users will not be charged for data access on the

Wikipedia website when they access the pages via a web browser on their mobile and so long as they stay within the website.

Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia that allows users to edit the files and update branches of knowledge as covered by historical events.

The initiative according to Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner is to help keep Wikipedia free for public use from all internet enabled devices.  The announcement received a welcome call especially from students whose primary source of accessing the internet is the mobile phone.

James Mathenge, an IT student at the Jomo Kenyatta University in Kenya when asked to comment about the initiative said “Its hard enough that I have to do my homework via mobile considering the heavy data charges but now thanks to Wikipedia, there will be no excuse for lagging behind in studies and current events.”

Wikipedia thus becomes the first organization to launch such a free project though this might be compared to the effort by some mobile operators such as

YU Kenya who allow free access to certain social networks on the web such as Facebook.

However, the question that should really pose is whether the initiative will succeed against a poor reading culture in Africa.

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Startup Weekend & Tech Cocktail Compete To Recruit Startups For Startup America

Startup America's Master Challenge showdown is now underway. This fun, friendly competition pits influential tech groups against each other, to see which one can encourage more startups to join the Startup America Partnership. The winning group gets bragging rights, of course, and will be recognized at upcoming events, like Startup America's Anniversary and at SXSW.

Past challenges included East vs. West and Feld vs. TechStars, for example. This week's competition, which kicked off just this morning, is between Tech Cocktail and Startup Weekend.

Attn Student Entrepreneurs: Highland Capital Wants To Help Kickstart Your Business

VC firm Highland Capital Partners is sounding the horn for their fifth annual "Summer@Highland" entrepreneurship program. The 10-week program aims to provide young, talented entrepreneurs with the environment and resources they need to kickstart their early-stage technology companies.

Online donors raise Sh5.9m for orphanage after attack

A Kenyan man sparked an Internet frenzy resulting in online donations of over $70,000 (Sh5.9 million) in 24 hours for a Kenyan orphanage.

What people need during the Holidays are gifts and lots of them. That means that great shopping experiences need not be the subject of our imaginations no more. Thanks to daily deal websites, the realization of buying and selling as a creative art has been diversified.However, the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in conjunction with manufactures needs to do more to ensure that the public is able to access information about the Country’s extensive trading facilities as well as the opportunities of representation in  avenues of business worldwide.

Anyways, I don’t have much to say other than to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Its been great meeting new people and growing with the existing network of buddies. Being the change that you want to see in the world is not just a thought but a right.

Meanwhile, Bob, Jeff and Julie did a number on gospel artist Jimmy Gait’s Song remix Furi Furi. Collymore did not just style up the song but he also dignified it with a unique sense of  recital. I’ll let you piece together the rest of the information with the video below:

Be blessed and see you in the next year!

Its facilitates. Tailored to automatically record Skype calls and conversations to MP3 files, the Riviera for Skype has come at a time when Businesses and Individuals are choosing Skype for their business calls globally with Clients. Most of this conversations do not allow for the taking of notes which ultimately undervalues the key notes in important conversations. With a recorder for Skype, an important step has been taken to ensure that discussions within minute to hourly calls are facilitated with the utmost attention.

 

The product by Jiteco Corporation allows you a 14 day free trial version that has no functional limits. After trial period you need to purchase a License Key to activate the product. The product is available for download here.

 

Indeed, the world woke up to a sad week on Monday to the news that Environmental activist and Nobel Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai had succumbed to Cancer while receiving treatment at a Nairobi Hospital. She was a mother and protector of our Nation, a great hero of the world whose contribution will be greatly endeared and cherished by all. May God Bless her soul.

Meanwhile, the week was adrenalized with the news that Facebook had launched a new way for users to interact with their profiles through what is now being referred to as the Facebook timeline. I already got mine activated a few days ago which is yet to go public this Friday but my favorite people-you- will get the honor of catching a snapshot of my 'pretty' profile page.

Have you ever thought of Second Chances! Yes, what would you do then in that second life? Well, technology has all the answers for you. This time, you not only get to dance on a virtual loft as we did last week on shaker but you also get the chance to trade, learn and socialize.

Second Life by Linden Lab

Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. Second life users, residents, use a number of free client programs to interact with each other. The applications are platforms that are used to cultivate education, arts, science, religion and relationships. The virtual world launched in June 2003 now boasts of over a million active users.

The options to the online virtual world are not minimal nor is the reality of the interactions faint. Some residents have chosen to get married online. Since 2008, the University of San Martin de Porres of Peru has been working on Second Life virtual world, developing prototypes of Peruvian archeological buildings, and training teachers for new paradigm of education. Institutions and business are also choosing to open virtual meeting places where they can share ideas and trade. Though a subject of criticism due to the simulation of child pornography, sex is often encountered.

All in all, its time for you to check it out. You can register for a free account or choose a premium account that goes for an average of $6 a month.

Facebook Timeline Unveiled

Facebook continues to evolve day by day, mostly through how users from different parts of the world are taking advantage of the diverse social network features . During the week in a Facebook F8 Conference in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg, unveiled a beautiful twist to the Facebook profiles in what seems to be the most intuitive feature on Facebook as of that day. The new display of the profiles is meant to capture the Whole story of Facebook users by allowing them to scroll easily to stories, updates and notifications from the day they were born.

The Timeline has three Sections:
Cover- This is where you use a large unique image that represents your best. It will be the first thing people see when they visit your profile.

Stories- This is where you share and highlight your most memorable posts, photos and lifetime events on the Timeline.

Apps- The activities you love will be highlighted on this page with a new set of Social Apps that let you express who you are through everything you do.

I am sure the biggest question here is why many user profiles such as yours haven't changed to reflect the new Feature timeline. The answer is that only developers at this stage are allowed to preview their profiles using this application. The feature might however go public as soon as this Friday 30th of September. Keep a look out. Meanwhile, you can learn more about the Timeline here.

Here is how the timeline looks like

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