WITSA Vice-Chair, Mr Roger Latchman of the Information Technology Association of South Africa will be speaking at the opening ceremony of AfICTS 2013.

The software giant, Microsoft Nigeria has formally announced the extension of its 9jApps contest deadline which originally ended on June 14, 2013 till July 19, 2013.

TECNO Mobile on Monday in Lagos unveiled its latest Android smartphone series, Phantom A into the Nigeria market. With the new product designed to battle Samsung galaxy tab, the smart phone maker at the launch said that it was designed for users with higher demand from smartphones.

Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Ita Okon Ewa, has said that plans have been perfected to send the first Nigerian into space by 2015.

A team of IBM experts completing a month-long consulting assignment, at the weekend presented recommendations to the Lagos State Government which they believed could help ensure a more efficient flow of traffic in Lagos.

Only 34,471,520 customers out of the 114.172 million active subscribers on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks use data.

Mr Akinwale Goodluck, the Corporate Services Executive of MTN Nigeria, has announced the decision of the company to discontinue SIM swaps by proxy with effect from June 7.

After sponsoring the training of about 30 application developers at the just concluded Mobile Web West Africa (MWWA 2013) in Lagos.Senior Director Business Development West Africa at Qualcomm, Mr Alex Dadson granted Hi-Tech Interview in his Victoria Island Lagos office to talk in details, reasons behind that gesture. At the end of the interview, we were able to discover that Qualcomm has the plan to ensure that every Nigerian owns a smartphone, since that is what is driving developments across the world. Here are the details:

Main One, West Africa’s leading wholesale Communications Services Company, recently announced its strategic entry into the nation’s manufacturing sector with bespoke connectivity offerings targeted at FMCGs, manufacturing companies and other businesses resident in the Ikeja, Agbara and Apapa industrial locations in Lagos and its environs.

Chairman, Open media Communications Ltd, Dr. Ernest Ndukwe has been named the chairman of the 2013 Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF), scheduled to hold in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.

By 2015, it is expected that more than 85 percent of fortune of 500 organizations will fail to effectively exploit big data for competitive advantage, the former Registrar of the Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria, Prof Adenike Oshofisan has predicted.

Technology and creative imagination are currently pushing the limits for innovative ideas to reality – in search of realizing the core objective for human existence by creating an efficient and safe transportation model for securing the environment and future of humanity.

Organizers of the Gulf Information Technology exhibition 2013 slated to hold in Dubai promises to attract a superlative global audience in the knowledge economy by establishing a Nigerian Pavilion with prospects of boosting foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow into the country.

Blue Gate Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and Stabilizers promoted by Tripplesea Limited have won the best UPS and Stabilizer of the year 2012 award.

An atmosphere of excitement and fun-fair was created at the audition venue for the sixth season of the MTN Project Fame West Africa, in Benin, weekend, as over 20,000 youths converged on the Constantial Hotel, in Benin City, Edo State.