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Cloudshot Practical Engineering commences!

          Its that time of the year again, when we are bringing up innovations and giving it life. Cloudshot Practical Engineering commences again this semester powerfully. This is bigger and better. A lot of programs have been lined up for you. The training is in 3 categories; Mechanical, Computer and  Electronic engineering. The training have been lined up in such a way that projects will be done simultaneously with the Cloudshot Technology Club. The training holds for 10 weeks during the semester and will be held every Saturday.

           If you are an engineering student and you are not thinking about enrolling for this training, you must be joking with the future, the future lies in the hands of those who are ready for it not those who are waiting for luck. The world today needs practicals not just theory. We have gone past the stage of showing your employers your boring CV, show them something mouth watering, when you show them your innovations in the Cloudshot Technology Club. 

           The future is yours for the taking. The form is N200 and it can be gotten from your class representative or from us directly. The training fee is N5000 and covers the 10 weeks, tools and materials needed for the training and your certificate. If you are interested in the training, please fill the form in www.cloudshot.com.ng or contact: +2348167802094. Join our community of innovators, inventors, creators and initiators and lets rule our world with the next big thing in technology. 

VOISSAPP...communication made easy

         Its a new month and the end of the of a session at Obafemi Awolowo University, which is the home of the company, Cloudshot Inc. We have successfully launched www.voissapp.com which is a platform that connects students, lecturers and class representatives. The user interface is very lovely. The platform allows for social networking, getting of information from lecturers and class reps, getting materials and lecture notes and many other features.

         We have seen you like the platform but to make you love the platform we are adding some features this break that will make the platform superb and very useful to everyone on campus. Features like:

• Private messaging; to send someone a message directly.
• Virtual Currency; to handle your online account.
• Myclass corners; where you are your course mates communicate privately.
• Association corners; getting information from every association you are on.
• Push notification; to get every notification instantly on your phone.
• Religious corners; to get information from your fellowships and churches.
• Famzing/Following; to get posts from users and organizations.

           We will be working on all these features to bring them to you after the break and the commencement of the new session. We are working on getting most of the Class representatives on the platform and also more lecturers on the platform. We are getting more local news agencies on campuses on the platform to keep you updated of every information going on around you. More schools will be joining from the second half of the year. 

            The Cloudshot team wishes you happy holidays! Don't forget to tell your friends to sign up on www.voissapp.com. Follow us on twitter: @voissapp We love you. We will continue to make the platform better especially for you. If you have a complaint or suggestion, please kindly drop in on info@voissapp.com or call: +2348167802094. We will surely love to hear from you. 

          SCREENSHOTS OF THE WEB AND APP ARE SHOWN BELOW:::

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Cloudshot Launches Voissapp For Android OS | OAU Peeps

Cloudshot Launches Voissapp For Android OS | OAU Peeps

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Updates on VOISS

Hello, The entire Cloudshot family is using this medium to say a big thank you and welcome to everyone on this platform now. Voiss which means voice of informed social students was created for the purpose of communication and information dissemination on campus. To aid campus interaction and connectivity. As you might have noticed updates have been pushed to the website, like; 

1.) Notifications: This is the unavoidable tab on the top right side of the website when using a system. It notifies you of interactions on the website that concerns you including your lecturers and class rep's posts.

2.) Home page: We don't know if you have noticed this or not but now, you can view latest campus news headline without logging in or signing up. 

3.) Search bar: This is the large bar at the top continuous bar on the website, You can now search for students, lecturers, posts and news. 

We will be pushing more updates on the website, more coming up are mentions, private messaging, timetable, chat, sms platform and many more. The mobile site and android app will be coming up sooner than you think. Remember, upload a profile pic, start sharing information and get informed. 

Invite your friends, course mates, lecturers, class reps and your enemies. Thank you for using VOISS.

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CLOUDSHOT launches VOISS to the public next week

A social networking site, VOISS APP, created by Cloudshot for the purposes of easing learning, communication amongst peers and better information dissemination in the University, is live now on the Internet.

According to the information on its website, VOISS APP was created for students all over Nigeria. However, ‘Institutions slot’ has OAU as the only institution of choice

The site has an Sms platform that notifies users of activities while offline. It allows students share media and documents also.

“Students can post gists for everyone to view, comment on posts, be closer to their classmates by viewing and commenting on posts of their classmates and class representatives, view and comment on campus news.”

“New features like chats and forums” will be added soon as stated on its “About” page.

You can sign up on the site here.

"VOISS will be launching soon and will be released to the entire public next week, when the android app will be ready for download and also when some features like notifications and private messaging (holla) are added to the website. The publicity commences after this through Class representatives and lecturers", said Kelvin Umechukwu, Team lead for Cloudshot Inc.
He also that users now should navigate through the website and give their review of the website, comments and suggestions, it will be greatly appreciated. 

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ARTIFIND, Nigeria's largest database for artisans

After launching on Windows and Android platforms, Nigeria’s Artifind aims to be the biggest marketplace to connect people looking for artisans with a click of the mouse.

With a databse of tailors, barbers, mechanics, hair-dresser, down to vulcanizers and painters, Artifind aims to make it easy to find verified local Artisans on the go. We currently support Web, Android and Windows Phone 8 platforms to get these artisans for your services. We hope to support SMS only phones for further coverage.

Founded in Nigeria by Oyewale Ademola, who is in charge of Marketing and Operations, Femi Aromolaran, head of Research and Perfect Makanju the CTO, Artfind expects to make money through SMS subscription, premium accounts and featured listings for Artisans to maximise their presence on Artifind.

“Artifind connects you with the experience that’s right for you,” the team says. “With people’s recommendations and votes of credibility, the choice is smarter and better guaranteed on Artifind.”

The startup aims to target the average Nigerian and travelers looking for reliable artisans to clear their tasks and services on time.

Futuristic buildings in Silicon Valley

Apple is building its spaceship campus. Google is expanding like a weed into new offices around Mountain View. And Facebook hired famed architect Frank Gehry.

These giants are building the offices of the future, and trying to give Silicon Valley a much needed architectural kick in the pants. But it looks like Samsung will beat them to the punch.

Samsung America’s ambitious new campus is on track to be finished in July, according NBBJ, the architectural firm that designed it. That would mean it’s open at least one year earlier than these other campuses.

The new U.S. headquarters for the company’s semiconductor operations is located in north San Jose and will have 680,000 square feet. Eventually, it will be home to 600 employees working in R&D and sales. That size, of course, is notably smaller than Apple’s new campus that will have 14,000 employees.

Still, the new Samsung building will be one of the more distinctive landmarks in a region sorely lacking in them.

The design includes a 10-story tower, unusually tall for the region. The tower is a series of two-story buildings stacked on top of each other. In between each set of two working floors is a floor that is actually open green space, with no walls. Basically, every third floor is a park.

The center of the main tower is wrapped around a courtyard and is connected to adjacent buildings by see-through walkways. The other shorter buildings have sides that will be covered with greenery and roofs covered with solar panels. The idea, according to NBBJ, was to keep employees as connected to the natural world outside as possible.

The state was super excited about this, and showered the company with incentives to stay in San Jose and build it. In general, the new HQ is just a piece of Samsung’s aggressive expansion in Silicon Valley.

Source: Venturebeat

When Computers Get a Right Brain

Watson is kind of a left brain decision engine. It is very strong numerically, but it is kind of an extreme version of Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory. It isn't very empathetic, and it isn't intuitive. Neural networking and cognitive computing will close the gaps, resulting in machines that can do more than suggest the top choices in a decision. They will actually make the decision.

 

IBM is massively increasing its commitment to Watson, which was evident at last week's IBM Think Forum. IBM recognizes that if it can get a product that thinks first, then it can again take absolute control over the technology market, and every other company will be chasing it again.

It is making some impressive headway, and I agree that the firm that succeeds at this will not only massively change the technology market, but also change the world. The very real outcome is that many of us will find our skills have become redundant -- and when I say "many of us," I include analysts, because we are obviously at risk.
I'll close with my product of the week: Gorilla Glass, which is what's keeping us from having far more broken phone screens and likely helping Apple to avoid having to recall the iPhone 6 (though I still think it should).

The Wonder of Watson

Watson is a fascinating system. I'm referring to this class of systems as "decision engines," because they aim to help people make better decisions. What makes them different from any other tool is that they learn about you, rather than you having to learn as much about them.
Granted, with these early versions, it is kind of a shared experience -- but prior to systems like Watson, all of the effort to learn how to interface was on the user side. With Watson, the end goal is to shift virtually all of this burden to the system.
What this means is that in the near-term future, when you need something from Watson, you'll be able to sit down and immediately be productive rather than spend the weeks to months it typically now takes to learn a new system. Because Watson learns from you, the longer you work with it, the better it becomes.
As more and more Watson computers are deployed, they learn from each other creating sort of a digital Gestalt providing a massive acceleration in the learning process.

Near-Term Expectations

There were a number of examples at the Think Forum of working systems and prototypes that showcased what Watson can do today. For instance, a hospital treating a cancer patient can look at the detailed information captured on the patient and then determine the highest-probability path to wellness. Watson already has information on obscure treatments and illnesses, which it can apply to the solution.
The end result is a customized program that is developed from information gathered all over the world -- both preventing mistakes that already have been made and identifying little known successes to reach an optimal solution.
Watson could provide travelers with an experience similar to what travel agents once provided. For instance, if your plane were delayed or grounded, it would automatically find and recommend an alternate route while you were in transit, which you could execute with one Amazon-like click. When called upon to help plan a trip, Watson could apply what it knows about you and about the various airlines and hotels to create the itinerary most likely to make it trip the best you've ever had.
For help desk issues, it would take customers through custom decision trees defined by the system's ability to diagnose the problem remotely and gauge the technical capability of the caller. That would enable it to provide the fastest resolution for the lowest cost, optimizing on a blend of customer satisfaction and cost containment.
It automatically would identify and report bad trends to decision makers, along with optimized recommendations, both to resolve the core issues in a timely way and optimally reduce the related costs.
Company after company testified at the Think Forum that they were seeing massive increases in customer satisfaction and getting a far better handle on costs from Watson-type technology, which is still in its infancy.

Jobs at Risk

Now with the next range of technology advancements, there are a ton of jobs at risk -- and not the obvious ones, either. Specialists are pretty safe for a while, but folks who provide general services -- like accountants, tellers, bankers, stock traders and, well, analysts -- are kind of screwed in the long term.
Fortunately, this won't happen overnight, and in the near term there will be some great jobs training systems like Watson but, once trained, these systems will be able to train each other almost instantly.
It will be even longer before specialists are at risk, because the costs of training a system like Watson to handle a specialty will likely exceed the benefits for some time. If the specialty is unique, that time could be indefinite.

Wrapping Up: The Future

The Think Forum wrapped up with a look into the future, and it was a fascinating discussion. Watson is kind of a left brain decision engine. It is very strong numerically, but it is kind of an extreme version of Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory. It isn't very empathetic, and it isn't intuitive.
Efforts like neural networking and cognitive computing will close the gaps, resulting in machines that can do more than suggest the top choices in a decision. They will actually make the decision, moving to the next stage and doing the whole job. Fortunately, this right brain aspect is still years off, and until it is ready, people will fill that role.
Two clear job growth areas, for now and in the near term, will be trainers for systems like Watson -- people who understand both a particular subject area and how best to present it to Watson. They will be Watson's right brain partners.

Product of the Week: Gorilla Glass

I was on Fox Business News this week covering the pain of a broken smartphone screen. Toward the end of the show, we tried to break a phone on air, but the phones bounced and didn't break. That was largely because the phones used Gorilla Glass, which is broadly used on smartphones today. It isn't invulnerable -- phones that use it still break -- but they break far less frequently, and as we so humorously demonstrated, it often takes a real boneheaded move to break one.
There was a lot of speculation that the iPhone 6 was going to use sapphire glass, and that would have ended badly. That's because for some screwy reason -- likely to save money -- Tim Cook allowed the iPhone 6 to have an aluminum frame rather than the steel or magnesium alloy frame that other large phones use, and that makes the screen the stiffest part of the phone.
Gorilla Glass bends a little, which is why you have a lot of bent iPhone 6s that don't have cracked screens as well.

Corning's Gorilla Glass

Sapphire doesn't bend at all, and though you'd likely have fewer bent phones, you'd have a far higher number of even more expensive cracked screens.
Much like jewels, if you do get a nick in the screen with sapphire, that becomes a flaw -- and the screen will break on that flaw. So sapphire would have cost more and not held up well at all on a large phone.
Now, if phone makers would just work a little harder on protecting the screens, we likely could eliminate most of the breaks that occur when the phone lands on its corner on something as unforgiving as cement or tile. However, Corning's Gorilla Glass is why far more of us don't have smashed phones, and it turned my spot on Fox Business into a comedy sketch, so it is my product of the week.

Hacker Gives Google a Hand With Chrome-Android Compatibility

A hacker working independently appears to have topped Google's own efforts to extend compatibility between its Chrome OS and Android. Google last week unveiled four Android apps for Chrome books based on its ARC API. Vlad Filippov, aka "Vladikoff," went Google several giant steps better, publishing a runtime dubbed "ARChon" that allows users to run any number of Android APKs in the Chrome OS.

An unplanned convergence of Android apps and the Chrome OS may be setting the stage for a wide-open cross-platform architecture that combines Android and Chrome.

Freelance programmer Vlad Filippov, aka "Vladikoff," discovered a way around Google's limitations on its ARC, or App Runtime for Chrome, which is essentially a Chrome extension application programming interface.
Filippov hacked his way into the Google process to allow it to run on the Chrome OS and other platforms that run the Chrome Web browser. He dubbed that modification "ARChon."
He worked independently on most of the hack he developed, driven by a desire to go beyond the initial Google Android runtime program.
"I feel like this quick hack helps us get a small glimpse at the future of Android as a truly cross-platform application platform," Filippov told LinuxInsider.

Hack Overview

The ARChon runtime allows users to run any number of Android APKs in the Chrome OS or other Chrome-browser supporting platforms. Android's installable programs and middleware are distributed in an APK file format that Google developed.
ARChon creates the modifications so they run using Chromeos-apk on Chrome OS and across any desktop platform that supports Chrome. A Google project already was developing a method to use ARC to run certain Android applications on the Google Chrome OS. Google last week released four Android apps for Chromebooks based on the ARC API: Vine, Evernote, Duolingo and Sight Words.

 

Future Impact

"This is a huge development for Android. You do not want a Tower of Babel. Users just want things to work," Laura DiDio, principal at ITIC, told LinuxInsider.
The end game is that you want people to be able to use these APKs. In no way should Google try to rein in a rogue developer, she said, but Google's intellectual property should count for something.
Generally, application platform owners like Google want to control their ecosystem to some level. This is important for a variety of reasons, Al Hilwa, program director for software development research at IDC, told LinuxInsider.
"For Google, Android is monetized by its ability to take users to its back-end services such as Google Search, Maps, etc. Indeed, Google has been shifting the focus of Android to be something more about its back-end services than just open source code to run devices," he said.

Filippov envisions a future when people can enjoy their favorite apps on any device, synchronized and scaled to fit the appropriate screen.
This is a unique opportunity for tablet applications to shine, he said.
"There are not enough good tablet applications for Android, and this might be the key to create experiences that are enjoyable on desktop and tablet form factors," Filippov added.

Google has full control of the Chrome browser and the Chrome OS ecosystems, so it certainly is possible that it will include some sort of a validation component in the future to limit this feature to Chrome OS.
"I really hope they will not lock down this approach in the future versions of the runtime, because it creates a great opportunity for people to experience, develop and test Android apps on their favorite desktop platform," said Filippov.
It's his hope that most of these components will stay open source as part of the Chromium and Android Open Source projects.
"The threat of ARChon is somewhat limited," noted IDC's Hilwa, "in that increasingly more and more Android apps have to effectively leverage Google Services. Additionally, it sounds like it will be a long time before it is possible to run the entire Google Now portfolio on any platform through this technology in a reliable manner." 

VideoSelfie

      A soon-to-launch mobile application called VideoSelfie, whose founders participated in the 500 Startups accelerator last year, has raised $1.2 million for its forthcoming mobile application that lets you edit your videos (of yourself, duh) in real-time. You can add filters, decorations and GIFs, hit record, then share, all at once.
The new app is a pivot from the company’s previous product called Unda, still live here on the App Store, which offered similar technology but was focused more on video messaging.
“Video messaging became a super saturated space and we knew we had to differentiate ourselves, so we started investing a lot of time developing our own technologies for motion tracking and face tracking to enable users fast ‘decoration’ of their video messages,” explains co-founder and CEO Oscar Noriega. “Now we want to focus on recording, decorating, editing and sharing, although we keep some basic messaging and community functions,” he says.
The company is also killing off its Unda Android application and will focus on VideoSelfie on iOS for now. (The app is still in Apple’s review queue at present.)
The main technology the company has built involves face tracking and motion tracking, which makes graphics added to videos interactive by detecting the movement of the camera and the movement of your head. Users tap the GIF button, pick a graphic then configure basic settings like enabling face tracking, making the graphic full size, or changing the animation speed. Then you pick a video filter and start recording, optionally adding music. The app ships with its own standard transparent GIFs, but it supports transparent PNGs if you want to add your own.
The end result are silly, short video clips where you can apply things like kitten whiskers and ears to your head, cover your face with an animated emoji, have some dancing cat GIFs hanging out next to you, and a lot more. You can then share these clips however you choose, including with the built-in community on the app. It’s definitely not serious stuff, but it is kind of fun.

The 7-person company closed on its seed round of $900K from mainly Japanese investors, which makes sense as the team is based in Tokyo and the app has a Japanese vibe to it with GIF categories like Kawaii and Manga, for example. Investors included East Ventures, Klab Ventures, Cyberagent Ventures, and a follow on from the 500 Startups fund. Angel in the round included Takeo Matsuda (the ex-CFO of Groupon Japan) and Masi Oka (the hollywood actor from the TV show Heroes andHawaii Five-0.) The round brings its total raise to date to $1.2 million.
As for why users would try out a dedicated video selfie app instead of just using popular apps for video they already have installed on their phones, Noriega explains: “Instagram and many other apps were never intended to be deeper video editing tools or real-time composition tools.”
The company says its value is in its real-time editing and mixing tools, face-tracking tech and real-time filters. It plans to generate revenue by way of selling additional filters and effects as in-app purchases, but one could imagine that it could also license its technology to bigger companies as another avenue for monetization.

File Sharing Between Android and iOS

            As handy as services like AirDrop or Android Beam may be for shuffling content between nearby devices, they're platform-exclusive. That's not much help if you want to share photos from your Android phone to an iPhone, or vice versa. However, Google may soon overcome that barrier. Android Police,Techaeris and GigaOM all have evidence of Copresence, a service that would let Android and iOS devices swap content over WiFi. Reportedly, it uses location data (including Bluetooth) to set up the connection; after that, you can send directions, photos and other info without having to either bump devices or rely on cloud storage options like Google Drive or Dropbox. The technique shouldn't require a Google account, either.

            It the details are accurate, Copresence should be available within a matter of weeks. Having said this, you shouldn't expect a file sharing Utopia. The feature is most likely to be limited to Google apps at first, and it's probably not going to be a system-wide feature on at least iOS -- you may have to be satisfied with exchanging files through a handful of programs. Still, that's better than the walled-off sharing you likely deal with today...

Source: www.engadget.com

Guess what?!...There Are New Crystal Clear Solar Cells That Could Power Your Smartphones One Day

The idea of a completely transparent solar panel has always been a bit of a dream. Such revolutionary technology would mean that we could turn windows into power generators and build phones with self-charging screens. Well, guess what? That dream is becoming a reality.

A team of researchers from Michigan State University has developed a completely transparent, luminescent solar concentrator. Whereas most traditional solar panels collect light energy from the sun using dark silicon cells and converted into electricity using the photovoltaic effect, solar concentrators actually focus sunlight onto a heat engine that produces electricity. In the case of this new technology, the plastic-like material channels specific wavelengths of sunlight towards the photovoltaic solar cells on the edge of the panel. "Because the materials do not absorb or emit light in the visible spectrum, they look exceptionally transparent to the human eye," Richard Lunt, who led the research, explains in a release.

Scientists have created partially transparent solar cells in the past, but the existence of crystal clear cells opens up some very exciting new possibilities. "It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e-reader," says Lunt. "Ultimately we want to make solar harvesting surfaces that you do not even know are there."

This is clearly exciting. (Pun intended.) Again, a solar-powered smartphone sounds like a dream for anyone who hates charging cords. It also sounds like a once impossible future that's closer than we thought...

source: www.gizmodo.com

Cloudshot Practical Engineering (CPE)

            What is the use of studying engineering? when you are not educated on the practicals that is accompanied with the theory you are being taught. These practicals are actually the entity that engineering is made up of. If this is missed out and you have little or no practical engineering skills, then i ask again, What is the use of studying engineering? 

             Cloudshot Practical Engineering is here now to train you in those engineering skills that you lack. CPE is commencing soon in Obafemi Awolowo University for the first time and is starting with 3 courses; Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. These are majorly practical courses with little theory to accompany with it. The purpose of this is to help students in engineering get the practical touch for them to be able to develop and create different inventions, work on their ideas and also get access to larger opportunities. 

              A course in CPE will span for 2 semesters; 1 academic session, for 10 weeks in the semester, weekend classes only. Gain practical knowledge in Engineering, I.T. and SIWES recommendations, practical projects and certification in practical engineering. The registration form is N500 and the training fee is N5,000. 

             Interested students should visit our website on www.cloudshot.com.ng and fill the interest form after which they pay the required fees and be able to go to the CS portal, where they can see their courses, see dates and time, venues, download materials and videos, post and ask questions on a course, see messages, view assignments and follow their grades and attendance. 

                 Don't wait to be told. Register now: www.cloudshot.com.ng 

Cloudshot Practical Engineering for OAU students.

In a nation that longs for development as Nigeria, the blame is always on the government but shouldn't there be a time when we come back to the drawing board and fix the problem by ourselves? The problems facing the economy also dwells on the failure of the government but shouldn't we desist from pointing fingers outward and start pointing the fingers towards ourselves.  A time should come when the responsibilities are taken by our youths and the government are left to join in when they are convinced, a time should come when the development of the nation should not be the responsibility of the government but on each and everyone of the nation's people. 

That time is now!!!

The time that youths will stop day dreaming and start developing, The time the youths will stop wasting their time in things that are not worth it, the time the youths will start turning their imaginations into innovations. Cloudshot Academy is here to inspire youths and give them the necessary knowledge in other to create a better world for themselves and together create a better nation. Cloudshot Practical Engineering is a program created for the purpose of creating a better world for ourselves.

Cloudshot Practical Engineering is now on OAU campus and is commencing next session with 3 courses; Mechanical, Computer and Electrical engineering. Theses courses are not restricted to students studying these courses alone but is open for everyone and anyone that is practical oriented, motivated and innovated. The courses runs through the semester and a complete training covers 1 academic session (2 semesters). This is to ensure proper understanding of the courses in the beginner and advance stages. The fee for the first semester is N5,000 and the form is N500. 

These courses are majorly practical courses with little or no theory but to expand your horizon on what is being taught in the higher institutions. A lot of programs and projects are lined up for students that are interested. Some of the benefits include; ability to create and innovate thereby developing your own startup, I.T and SIWES recommendation, Mind blowing projects, preparing you for the world outside the four walls of the academic institution and many more...

Contact our OAU student Ambassador, Kelvin on 08167802094 for more information and to purchase your form. Forms are now available.