The Chief Operating Officer, COO, of the Canadian smart phone maker, BlackBerry, Marty Beard has cleared the air on the rumor making round that its Classic is nearing the end of the line.

Sports, politics and the unending tussle between life and death took over Google Trends this week. The passing of veteran actress, Bukky Ajayi, sent Nollywood and movie lovers into mourning while the ongoing drama surrounding the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board forcefully thrust the regulatory body into the limelight.
The goings-on in Europe also caught the attention of gist-hungry Nigeria. Theresa May’s post-Brexit incumbency in England; the feats of Serena Williams and Andy Murray at Wimbledon and Portugal’s first Euro Championship win all got the country hot under the collar.

One of the global leaders in providing telecom and social media solutions, Kirusa has unveiled myGenie, a revolutionary free airtime App for prepaid Android users in Nigeria.

EFFORTS to increase broadband penetration across Africa might finally be yielding some results as Broadband speed across the continent is set to increase by 240% in 2020. This is according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Complete Forecast for 2015 to 2020.

NIGERIAN consumers are increasingly comfortable with online shopping, both from local retailers and foreign online stores and are some of the world’s most prolific users of mobile devices to do shopping. This is according to a new study conducted in Nigeria by Ipsos, a global market research company, on behalf of electronic payment provider, PayPal.

Organisers of the forthcoming National conference of the Nigeria Computer Society, NCS, have disclosed that IT innovation will take centre stage at the event next week.

THE Federal Government’s push to promote local content in Information Communication Technology, ICT, has started yielding expected results as leading computer manufacturing companies in Nigeria have come together to establish an organization tagged Certified Computer Manufacturers of Nigeria, CCMON.

COURIER and logistics firm, Red Star Plc, has launched an electronic payment solution for e-commerce firms to drive pay on delivery.

PREMIER connectivity and data center solutions company, MainOne, has won the Microsoft Country Manager’s Partner of the Year (POY) Award for Nigeria, during the Microsoft Partner Network Awards held in Lagos recently.

ALTHOUGH the recent licence acquisition of the 2.6GHz spectrum by MTN Nigeria has been met with much debate, the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, believes that it will give a boost to the country’s current Broadband Drive.