To further promote youth employability in Middle East and Africa, Microsoft has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Udemy, an online education marketplace with over nine million students.

Ericsson as part of it resolve to equip communication service providers and utility companies to address services and requirements in the fast-growing Internet of Things ,IoT, market has introduced three new IoT solutions for smart homes and cities globally.

Ericsson in partnership with have announced field trials for connected water solutions in Atlanta, the United States of America.
The trials would enable the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated to protecting water in the Chattahoochee River Basin, to remotely monitor the quality of the city’s water at key watershed locations.

THE 2016 budget was a mixture of surprises. While some sectors jubilate, others are racking their brains on how to sort out the confusion the budget has put on their operations. For instance, the Ministry of Communications and two of its agencies are to share N15, 997, 128, 516 billion as their total budgetary allocation for the year 2016. While this is a great improvement upon last year’s N9.9 billion, it also has its own flaws.

At the Consumer Electronic Show,CES, 2016 which opens in Las Vegas, the United States of America tomorrow, Ericsson has assured that it would demonstrate how the Networked Society is turning great ideas into global realities.

Technology giant, Microsoft Corp has began singing a new song in the Nigerian smart phone market with the introduction of Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL respectively.

The year 2015 has a lot of statistics, Information and Communications Technology, ICT industry practitioners can bandy about with pride; particularly in terms of telephony access and data penetration. Active telephone lines are well over 150 million; close to 100 million Nigerians are having access to the Internet, the country’s teledensity rose quite above 108 per cent and Investment in the sector is being put at over $32 billion.

INFORMATION Technology services company, iSON Technologies, recently acquired Global Technology Services, GTS, from the Emirates National Oil Company, ENOC, in a deal both parties say will be beneficial to the IT industry as a whole.

About 3.2 billion people across the world are estimated to have access to internet in 2016.The figure represents about 44 per cent of the world’s population.

MICROSOFT’s search engine, Bing has released its annual search trends revealing that 2015 is a year shaped by impactful people, events and moments.