It’s no secret that this year’s Consumer Electronics Show will be rife with new Android tablets, with PC makers Lenovo and Toshiba among the latest to throw their hats into the tablet ring. But the news that TV manufacturer Vizio is boldly jumping into the Android tablet fray comes as something of a surprise.

What do you call it when you have 120,000 people and an elephant in the room? The International Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off this week in Las Vegas.

Having served for many years as Head of Child Protection with the United Nations Children’s Fund [UNICEF] Ms Karin Landgren of Sweden added yet another value to her success story as she has been appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, as his new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Office in Burundi.

In general, the Swedish embassy in Nigeria demands that applicants desiring to migrate to their Country for any purpose, should possess visa requirements, which are, evidence of sufficient fund for the duration of time intended to stay or a proof of other satisfactory arrangements for their support, while applicants are still in Nigeria and a recent Yellow fever vaccination Certificate.

UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister, Jeremy Browne has condemned the violent attacks on New Year’s Eve on innocent Nigerian citizens in Abuja.

For the Information and Communications Technology ICT sector, the year 2010 began with high hopes , progressed with some belief and ended with a lot of disappointments.

In a bid to improve on telephony in South Africa, eTranzact Global South Africa, has partnered with MTN Group to deploy Community Pay Phone, CPP, in South Africa.

Etisalat Nigeria, lead sponsor of the ongoing Nigerian Idol reality show has announced the introduction of voice voting, a new, innovative voting service to enhance subscribers’ voting for their favorite contestants throughout the duration of the Nigerian Idol show.

One of the CDMA operators in the country, Starcomms has introduced a tablet PC called ‘myPad’.
Starcomms said the newly introduced product is its first ever mobile one-stop shop for all internet and PC needs of Nigerians.

The Joint Task Force Tuesday described as “belated” the alleged conditions for cessation of attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta region by the wanted leader of the Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF), Gen John Togo.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, his deputy, Architect Namadi Sambo and national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Okwesileze Nwodo said, Tuesday, that the Federal Government and the party want the former governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan to return to Government House, Asaba, to enable him continue with his vision and pace-setting development programmes for the state.

Smarting from the launch of the second season of its customer promo tagged, Text4millions 2 and subsequently reedeming prizes for the first set of winners in the promo penultimate week, Second National Telecommunications operator, Globacom has also expressed appreciation to its business partners nationwide by hosting them in a classy and exclusive evening in Lagos .

Oluwakemi Obe, a widow and primary school teacher, has emerged winner of the $10, 000 grand prize of Airtel’s MAMA trivia competition.

The second Broadband Summit organized by e_Business Life Communication has been slated to hold in Abuja in February 2011.
The seminar which has its theme as: Broadband Revolution:

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries election for the state House of Assembly took an extra ordinary dimension as candidates speculated to carry the day failed woefully to the disbelief of those in the machinery of government.