Buyright Africa Dotcom, a new Tech savvy conglomerate, has redeemed its promise to give mini laptops to the first 50 visitors to its website at 7am on its launch date, the 7th of May, 2012. The lucky winners received the laptops from the Buyright Africa Dotcom offices in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Owerri, and Kano.

To be globally competitive, the Minister of Communication and Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson at the just concluded 2012 World Telecommunication and Information Society day held simultaneously last week globally has said governments and private sectors must engage women and girls in ICT careers.

MTN Nigeria, has announced measures to operations of SMEs as its business arm, MTN Business, is offering SMEs, an array of work tools including the new iPad 3, 3G Wireless Modems and a range of phones to boost their productivity.

The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) has commended the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for imposing fine on Telecoms Operators over poor quality service.

While software piracy stifle innovation, harm local economies, the software giant, Microsoft in collaboration with the Nigerian Copyright Commission.

Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application. Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app with an Apple backend. The application design is said to be fairly similar to the current Google Maps program on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience.

ANOTHER organisation to further the frontiers of ICt on the continent, Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA) has been formed.

The Nigerian education sector is set to receive a boost as one of Nigeria’s technology companies, Teledom International Limited, introduces Smart Classroom teaching system. The technology was exhibited at the recently concluded West African ICT conference, WAFICT Expo 2012 in Lagos.

Chairman of Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, has advocated the establishment of an Action Plan on ICT Youth Empowerment and Knowledge Economy for Imo State. Speaking at the just concluded Imo Youth Summit, the Zinox Boss said that the global recession of 2008/2009 revealed that youth unemployment was a major threat to economic growth and political stability.

In what appears another endorsement of Nigeria as the West African hub for intellectual information and communication technology, Learning Curve, has introduced the celebrated and highly commended digital teaching aid, Door to the Digital classroom which has recorded tremendous success in countries like South Africa, Botswana, Senegal and Zambia, among other southern African countries.