With analog systems, these additional security features are not put in place. The cabling can be tapped and erroneous video material can be fed into the wire or recorded off of it at will without raising any intrusion alarms. Compared to analog systems, IP systems are much more difficult to compromise, as encryption requires two nodes that agree on exactly what is being sent and received, interruptions to this data stream will automatically trigger alarms and alerts.

By Emeka Aginam Over one hundred broadcasting experts and ICT leaders across Africa including Nigeria with the representation of the regulatory authority, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, are currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, deliberating on the progress made in the switch over from analogue to digital broadcasting in Africa. Organized by the London-based Commonwealth Telecommunication’s […]

Perhaps, the giant strides made by IT in the Nigerian medical profession will never be fully understood until a personal visit is paid to a doctor.

If one understands the new executives of the Nigerian Internet Group, NIG, clearly, the issue of internet development can no longer remain business as usual. The government has to walk the talk or be made to explain why it would prefer the country to play catch-up in the world information order.

Second National Operator, Globacom, Monday announced a reduction in the price of its 3G Internet modem from N8,500 to N5,000.

Do you know that Nigeria managed America’s first Satellite in Orbit?. Yes! this same Nigeria, that now depends on China to build and in most cases manage our Satellite. The detoriation that brings about this latest state of affairs could be traced to the door steps of the military

Nigeria’s premier Online B2B platform, an e-strategy and sales advisory company, e-Sourcing has introduced online portal designed for Nigerian market to overcome challenges by delivering best -in-class sourcing and negotiation technology with strategy and access to a growing network of suppliers.

The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, has effected immediate changes in the structure of the Commission, with redeployment of directors and creation of a new department in a move seen as directed towards his announced new focus for the national telecom regulator in the next five years.

Following lapses in the adopted processes for the registration of voters, the umbrella body representing all IT professionals in Nigeria, the Nigeria Computer Society, (NCS) has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) for non-inclusion of the nation’s IT professionals in a matter that borders heavily on professionalism, saying that Nigeria may not achieve best practice in the 2011 elections if the lapses, especially on software were not redressed.

The president of the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigerian CAPDAN; Mr Tunji Balogun at the last meeting held with the Director General of the National Information Development Agency NITDA Professor Cleopas Angaye last year had cried that street traders were choking the life out of registered businesses in the market. NITDA had promised to help but months after, things continue to remain the same in the market.