The Gender equality war is not only gaining ground physically. The war is even ongoing, online. At the moment,the United Nations, UN Women has entered into a strategic partnership with Intel Corporation on the lntel “She Will Connect” program which seeks to reduce the digital gender gap through a combination of digital literacy training, online peer networks, and gender-relevant content.

The 54-member nations of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) rose from its yearly Forum and Council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, last week to announce Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta as the new Chairman. Danbatta is the Acting Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

I n the developed worlds, technology enables people to carry their whole world in a plastic card called the digital wallet. This wallet will identify, aid bills payment of individual carriers among other things. Having attained a relatively greater height in technology, the Nigerian government felt Nigerians are due for this and started a process of electronic Identity management which has seen Nigerians and legal residents in the country issued a National Identification Number NIN.

The rapid strides that has been made lately due to recent technologies has helped in making the world become more of a global village. You can now reach almost anyone on planet earth that has access to the internet via social networking websites. As we embrace these technologies, it is important to maximize its potential by placing more emphasis on the networking potential of social media websites.

Following the changing consumer needs in TV and video landscape in Nigeria, latest report by Ericsson’s ConsumerLab released yesterday has indicated that 64 percent of time is spent by Nigerians watching videos on a mobile device like smartphone, tablet and laptop.

Microsoft Corp, Monday, began the worldwide release of Office 2016, delivering new versions of the Office desktop apps for Windows, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Project, Visio and Access. The apps are the latest addition to Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based subscription service that help people do their best work, together. Also launched were the new and enhanced Office 365 services built for team productivity.

The penetration of mobile instant messaging platforms such as Whatsapp, Black Berry Messenger (BBM), Palmchat, 2go, among others in Nigeria’s social media ecosystem has no doubt increased appreciably.

Independent fibre optic infrastructure and telecommunications services provider, Phase3 Telecom has said it will deepen investment on infrastructure to extend its reach, increase efficiency, scale up resilience and adaptability for efficient network services while offering solutions that will amplify the operations of its clients across the West African sub-region.

The United Nation Broadband Commission, Monday disclosed that four billion people globally, especially people living in the developing world lack internet access, just as broadband grows slowly.

While technology evolves,Samsung has continued to excite consumers with something new particularly at the upper end of its ‘washing machine line-up’.