Developed in France and targeted towards the aspirational youth African market, the TECNO Q1 is everything in a smart phone. It sports a 2.6-inch display at 480×320 pixels, has a 5-megapixel camera, 4Gb built-in memory and 512 MB RAM. Like any other Android Smartphone, there is Wi-Fi on board, as well as 3G. To cap it off, it is a dual-SIM mobile.

YouTube on Thursday launched a pilot program of paid channels for its online video service, calling it part of an effort “that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity.”

Struggling Finnish handset giant Nokia unveiled on Thursday its next-generation of lower-end mobile smartphones as it seeks to gain traction in a market expected to be worth $15 billion by 2015.

Internet entrepreneurs of iROKOtv Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter, today announced the official launch of SPARK, a $1m-backed company to support and develop aspiring Nigerian tech and Internet entrepreneurs.

Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited , one of the leading players in the ICT sector has emerged as the winner in the Indigenous software company of the year category at the 2013 Beacon of ICT awards ceremony.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Africa lacks enough scientists and engineers for the continent to migrate into the emerging global knowledge-based economy.

THE Director General of National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Mike Omeri has described the National Identity Management System,NIMS, as a revealing project that will provide a comprehensive National Database in Nigeria.

Senior Director, Business Development, West Africa at Qualcomm, Mr Alex Dadson last week attributed some of the major breakthroughs the mobile market has experienced in recent times to the technology his company pioneered as a wireless chipsets manufacturer.

A fresh round of competition in the smart phone ecosystem may have begun as the Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei brings Windows-run smartphone exclusively available in the Africa continent. The customized device will be made available in the Nigerian market tomorrow in partnership with Microsoft as part of its new 4Afrika Initiative.

As part of its commitment to sanitize the industry against what it described as quacks, the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN, has again warned Information Technology training institutions operating illegally across the nation especially in Lagos to desist from the act or face the long arm of the law.

Kenyan ICT guru and digital strategist, Mark Kaigwa says the introduction of mobile phone into Africa has ushered in a silent revolution that will transform the continent and make it globally competitive.

TOP information technology firm, Signal Alliance is going into partnership with SAP on Enterprise Assets Management. The partnership was announced last week in Lagos at a briefing held by representatives of both firms.

Unless a sound intellectual property policies were created by Nigerian government to spur innovation in local economies, the fight against piracy may remain unabated, the global software giant, Microsoft has said.

At the launch of its latest smart phone series, TECNO P3, mobile phone maker TECNO has disclosed plans to build plant in Nigeria.

The software giant, Microsoft has said that part of the reason many financial institutions in the country have not yet attained PCI DSS compliance is because of challenges inherent in it which it said can significantly affect the organization’s business processes, service architecture, and technology solutions.