WONT he break it?’ Barely five years ago, if anyone saw your toddler with a smart phone or tablet, that’s exactly what they would say. But today, it is a given that children are good with technology. Although it is nearly impossible to believe that this is not as a result of some genetic make-up peculiar to any child born after Facebook, the ubiquitous presence of technology today ensures that more and more children are crawling around the online space.

IN every mobile market, the customer is actually becoming king. Thank God for the open platform which android brings that has opened up opportunity for mobile Original Equipment Manufacturers, OEMs, to manufacture phones with similar features irrespective of status and financial muscles.

The chairman of the GSMA, Jon Fredrik Baksass, yesterday unfolded the direction of the mobile operator’s association for the developing markets before international audience at the ongoing GSMA Mobile 360 series Africa holding in Cape Town, South Africa.

Although the number of smartphones in Africa currently stands at 160 million, according to the latest report by the GSMA, to achieve more mobile connectivity in the sub-Saharan Africa, two giant service providers, MTN and Etisalat have said that cost of 3G enabled smart phones was still a key barrier to connectivity.

One of the top commercial banks in Nigeria, Access Bank, has disclosed that it has selected Ireland’s leading self-service banking software provider, CR2’s BankWorld omnichannel suite, to manage its self-service channels including ATM, Internet, and Mobile. With 5 million retail customers and over 1,500 ATMs, Access Bank was mindful of the importance of the self-service channels in supporting Nigeria’s retail banking growth. This strategic alliance was celebrated at Access Bank’s London headquarters recently.

Import bill for food in Nigeria is becoming alarming. At 11 percent per annum, it is growing in geometric acceleration that seems very difficult to sustain. Most unfortunate is that Nigeria is importing what it can produce in abundance, thereby hurting Nigerian farmers and displacing local production

Traditional communication as we know it is becoming extinct and the companies who will rule their industries in the future are those who embrace the latest developments in digital communication.

Online classified, OLX, last week recounted how initial challenges encountered while doing business in Nigeria, provided great growth potentials which has kept the company at the frontline of its genre of business.

History was made on September 17, 2015 when Facebook went down for the first time ever. But whoever said lightning does not strike twice in the same place, is now being forced to eat his words. With two more down times in the same month, it would seem that lightning can strike not just twice, but thrice in the same place and within a very, very short period of time.

Committed to its primrose of innovation, Microsoft Corp Tuesday unveiled new Surface, Lumia and Microsoft Band devices, taking advantage of powerful and versatile hardware to unlock new Windows 10 experiences.