Nigerian Times

Smartphone Sales Will Account for 53% of Global Handset Sell-Through in 2015, Pyramid Finds CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 6, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Total handsets sold to end users globally will reach 1.46 billion in 2011, while smartphone sales will account for 27 percent of total handset sell-through. Driven by demand for inexpensive Android models, this figure will almost double to 53 percent in 2015, according to Pyramid Research's quarterly smartphone forecast released this week. Offered as a quarterly-updated subscription or as a one-off resource, Pyramid's Smartphone Forecast provides annual sell-through of total mobile handsets and smartphones for a ten-year period, including five historical years and five forecast years. Smartphone sell-through data is also segmented by vendor and by operating system . Granular data is provided for key emerging and developed markets, with ten new countries added to its coverage in its latest ...

15 Mar 2011 20:56 Africa/Lagos ECOWAS flags off campaign on elimination of malaria by 2015 ABUJA, March 15, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- ECOWAS Commission has flagged off its campaign for the elimination of malaria in the region by 2015, with the launching of the programme in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State in South-South Nigeria. The campaign will focus on strengthening the vector control component of the fight against malaria in the region through the use of Cuban technology on bio-larvicides. Bio-larvicides are environmental-friendly substances that are applied to mosquito reservoirs and kill the larvae while the adults are eliminated through residual spraying of homes. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, said the strategy of vector control using this technology was “adopted to tackle the menace of malaria and guarantee total annihilation of the disease in the subcontinent in the spirit of the agreement by ECOWAS Member Sta...