Microsoft Corporation Tuesday announced that the Beagle Freedom Project as the winner of the 10th global nonprofit organization partner for the Upgrade Your World initiative will receive $500,000.

IN just about one year, the consistent clamour for a national database that would properly aggregate and keep accurate data of citizen and others living in the country could be over. This is because baring any unforeseen circumstances, from January 9, 2016, Nigeria would be a proud host of a national database. In addition, citizens and others legally living in the country would have and begin to use a digital identification cum wallet, the National Identification Number, NIN, which would tell accurately who they are, their ages, work and a whole other information in just one stripe.

PRESIDENT of Nigeria Internet Group (NIG), Eng. Adebayo Banjo has assured internet users in Nigeria that his association would work with relevant bodies to ensure that the country enjoys more effective and efficient broadband penetration. Banjo made the promise at the association’s annual conference and exhibition 2015, which held in Lagos last week. Banjo said that Information and communications Technology, ICT has become an integral aspect of human activity, noting that any activity that is not rooted on it will certainly go into extinction.

SInce the advent of Information and communications Technology, ICT, the impact on the Nigerian Postal Services Nipost, has not been favourable as the fortunes has continued to nosedive, as a result of huge apathy from the customers towards post services. Apart from the need for a total revamping of the Post occasioned by this development, experts have shared the view on the need for the establishment of a National Postal Commission (NPC) to engender proper regulation of the industry and at the same time check the excesses of the independent courier companies operating in the country.

BArely three months after former President Goodluck Jonathan signed the Cybercrime bill into Law to the admiration of the Information and Communications Technology, ICT industry, practitioners of same industry have picked holes in the law demanding amendment. Worried by the growing rate of Cybercrimes in Nigeria, legal experts in the Nigerian information Communication Technology ecosystem and IT experts have called for the urgent review of the Nigerian Cybercrime Law 2015, that was signed into law At the recently concluded Technology Times Outlook 2015 , organized by Technology Times.

Social media now offers the highest retun on investment as an advertisement media. Don’t let your competitors capitalize on this vast and growing landscape before you do. Smart business people understand that the modus operandi for attracting new clients has changed. They go to the second most visited place on the face of the earth – Facebook. Research has revealed that one out of every six minutes spent online, is spent on Facebook.

ONe of Nigeria’s online classified platform, Payporte global system recently established a partnership deal with an e-service medium, Opera mini web pass to provide free 100,000 days of free internet service to customers. Managing Director of Payporte company, Mr. Eyo Bassey, made this known in Lagos at the official launching of the companies partnership as this move will boost more participation online.

In a drive to deliver rich mobile experiences and superior smartphone technology to more Nigerians, mobile communications maker, Lenovo has slashed the prices of its P70 and A5000 smartphones respectively in Nigeria.

To boost connectivity as a result of influx of devices and applications trying to access the network , Ericsson has released a major new software, the Ericsson Networks Software 16A, featuring a new suite of LTE software upgrades that targets the indoor space.

The world indeed is changing at a speed no one could ever imagine before. The social media and mobile technologies have gone a long way in transforming the way individuals interact and also how information is shared among individuals in the society. In today’s society, from a global perspective, the social media has changed how individuals function with each other as well as how business is now conducted. From the simply daily communication to how we seek employment, social media is available.