As a way of giving its customers some secure computing business edge, HP has announced a new mobile thin client that combines PC-like performance with the security needed to protect data in enterprise, financial, healthcare and government settings.

Technology seems to be making everything easy for the professional photographers. Ordinarily they go through a harrowing time trying to change focus between subjects while shooting a video, for example, with a DSLR camera. The auto-focus often makes a stuttering noisy clip which doesn’t give much texture to the video. But today a technology company, Follow focus systems, has made it easy for the photographer by introducing what it called the Focus maker which has a handle meant to help changing focus smooth.

TO fast-track IT penetration in the country, the Ministry of Communications Technology has perfected a three-pronged strategy through the Student PC ownership scheme launched last week by the Minister, Mrs Omobola Johnson. The student PC ownership scheme is the first leg of the strategy, the other two being reversal of poor acceptance of local computer brands and poor capacity utilisation of indigenous PC assembly plants. It is hoped that the student PC ownership scheme will trigger action in the desired direction.

DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, the pan-African competition sponsored by MultiChoice and Eutelsat Communications, records a milestone as over 1,000 entries from high school students across Africa were received for this year’s edition of the contest. The competition, now in its second year, is designed to provoke thinking on how innovation and satellite technology can propel Africa into the future.

For the first six years of my life I lived in Nigeria (Ibadan), but arriving on October 26, 2012 marked the first time that I’ve been back in the country in 23 years. It was clear instantly, right from the airport, how much had changed. As I last remembered, flights were much fewer (and some big names of the day then, such as Air Afrique – no longer exist. But, I was immediately taken aback by, not just one, but two, US airlines directly serving the airport.