The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a new requirement for listing on the Nigerian capital market, declaring that, henceforth, companies seeking listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) must adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

TOP pay-TV operator, DSTV Mobile last week introduced mobile television decoder for Nigerian consumers. With the product called “Drifta”, Nigerian subscribers can enjoy television anywhere at any time.

Panabiz International Limited has introduced Canon’s uniFLOW version 5 software into Nigeria’s electronic market.

IBM on Monday announced the IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities, a new technology solution designed to help cities of all sizes gain a holistic view of information across city departments and agencies.

Google Nigeria has broken the silence and announced that Nigerian users of the Google mail accounts have nothing to worry about following the disturbing hacks that took place in several Asian countries where several hundreds of Google email accounts were broken into by unidentified persons.

While many cell phone users, especially in developing countries still under use their mobile phone because of what observers call lack of IT skills and knowledge, global handset manufacturer, Nokia is currently downloading free Ovi by Nokia software applications that enables users enjoy many applications including games, maps, media, messaging and music.

Microsoft Nigeria and Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) are preparing to host the Microsoft NGO Connection Day Nigeria 2011 in Abuja on June 15 and 16, 2011. The two day networking and information-sharing event will bring together non-profit organisations from across the country to join an interactive ICT capacity-building program which enables participants to learn more about Microsoft’s technologies and opportunities for non-profit organisations.

It is widely acknowledged that there are serious issues of quality of service on Nigerian telecommunications networks and the NCC has taken up the challenge by daily interfacing with the operators on these issues.

Indications emerged at the weekend that government may provide some bailout to broadband operators in order to take services to the rural areas.

Top phone manufacturer, Nokia has unveiled its leading emerging market information service in Nigeria tagged Nokia Life Tools.