FG warns against ponmo consumption - ITREALMS

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The Federal Government (FG) has sounded an alarm on the consumption of cow skin, popularly known as ponmo, and bush meat, due to surging Anthrax disease out break, reports ITREALMS.

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) in a press statement available to ITREALMS on Monday, June 12, personally endorsed by the Permanent Secretary, FMARD, Ernest Umakhihe, the alarm has become imperative due to the outbreak of the anthrax disease in neighbouring countries in the West African subregion.

Tech Trends debuts on Channels Tv

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The Nigerian tech industry has witnessed a boom in recent times which is not limited to the consumption of tech-related services alone. Nigerians are gradually creating awesome tools and services that were hitherto the reserve of foreign internet entrepreneurs.

Tech Trends is a new television program from the stables of Channels Television that seeks to educate and prepare Nigerians to take better advantage of the technology boom that is being experienced across the world.

Tech Trends on Channels Television will feature various segments such as Latest Trend Updates, Guest Interview, Question and Answer (Tech Clinic), Gadget Review and Comparison, New Innovations & products, Safety and Security on the Internet and other web related segments. This will make Tech Trends the first of its kind on any Television station in Nigeria.

The objectives of the programme are as follows:

•      To showcase the best of technology/telecom products, tools and services currently available in the Nigerian market.

•      To give proper coverage to the massive innovations going on in the Nigerian tech space.

•      To educate the people on the proper and efficient use of available ICT tools for business, leisure and other ethical and legitimate purposes.

•      To provide a viable opportunity for prospective telecom service providers to showcase the value-added services they offer in order to assist the people to make informed decisions on their network of choice and derive maximum value for their money.

•      To educate the people on the regulatory terrain of the ICT industry in general and empower them with adequate information regarding their rights and responsibilities as consumers. 

•      To provide safety and security tips in order to help protect the people from the myriad of potentially harmful realities abounding in cyberspace.

The presenter of Tech Trends is Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr., "CFA", who is a renowned ICT expert with a growing media experience that spans print, radio and online. 

Tech Trends on Channels Television promises to be very interesting and informative. The program airs by 4.30pm every Monday on Channels Television, Nigeria's most respected TV station and 9^th time winner of TV “Television Station of the Year.”

 

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ITU reduces video bandwidth consumption with HEVC

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has unveiled a new video coding standard riding on the PrimeTime Emmy award winning ITU-T H.264 /Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG-4) ‘Advanced Video Coding’ (AVC), was agreed by ITU upon by member states, on Friday, January 25, 2013.

Officials of ITU informed ITRealms that the new codec will considerably ease the burden on global networks where, by some estimates, video accounts for more than half of bandwidth use.

According to ITU, the new standard, known informally as ‘High Efficiency Video Coding’ (HEVC) will need only half the bit rate of its predecessor, ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ (AVC), which currently accounts for over 80 per cent of all web video.

Also, the HEVC, ITU noted, would unleash a new phase of innovation in video production spanning the whole Information and Communication Technology (ICT) spectrum, from mobile devices through to Ultra-High Definition Television (UHD-TV).

ITRealms gathered that ITU-T’s Study Group 16 had agreed first-stage approval of the much-anticipated standard known formally as Recommendation ITU-T H.265 or ISO/IEC 23008-2.

“It is the product of collaboration between the ITU Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG),” an ITU official statement remarked.

Noteworthy is that ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology, spanning over 145 years.

As such, ITU coordinates the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promoted international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits, worked to improve communication infrastructure in the developing world, and established the worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communications systems.

 
Additionally, ITU oversees from broadband networks to new-generation wireless technologies, aeronautical and maritime navigation, radio astronomy, satellite-based meteorology and converging fixed-mobile phone, Internet and broadcasting technologies, ITU asserts as always its commitment to connecting the world.

Remmy Nweke
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