“We are looking at ordering initial 1 million Set-top boxes in second week of July for Jos and its environs” he added. On the implication of missing the dateline, the DG said after June 17, 2015, no analogue channel TV station in the country will be protected by the ITU as there would be a lot of interference from stations from neighbouring countries.

One of the pioneers of Information and Communications Technology, ICT journalism in Nigeria, Mr Aaron Ukodie, will in July mark thirty years of Information and Communication Technology, ICT reporting. However, Ukodie has decided to tell the story of his sojourn in three books which he said would be launched that day. The books are “The Privatisation of NITEL: An Archetypal Government Agency”, “Nigeria’s Path to ICT Development” and “The Lead Story”.

Figuratively, the whole of Africa stood still penultimate week, when the organizers of the Beacon of ICT, BoICT awards, announced that the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC was again, voted the Government Agency of the year, in the 2015 edition of the award ceremony. The award was keenly contested by African agencies both within and outside Nigeria, giving distinctive class and prestige to the winner.

The Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN and financial institution partner, the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System, NIBSS, would lead array of banks who have indicated interest to this year’s d CardExpo in Lagos. Organisers of the annual CBN CardExpo Africa, Intermarc Consulting Limited said the 15th edition of the card conference and exhibition, has special focus on Card, Mobile, Identification and payment.

By Emeka Aginam The success story of Abiola, the Chief Executive Officer of Gamsole, a mobile game apps development company that currently develops games for Windows phone mobile and Windows 8 PC must be interesting  to any start-up  in the technology ecosystem. The software code warrior whose games has over 9 million downloads around the […]

Coscharis Technologies recently received an award for its outstanding performance in West Africa from APC technologies at the APC’s Middle East and Africa, MEA conference which held in Budapest, Hugary. The award, according to APC, is in recognition of Coscharis Technologies for the innovation brought into the business of distribution, outstanding sales record and maintenance of the global standard of handling the APC brand in the Nigerian market.

Nigerian leading phone retailer, Slot Systems Limited in partnership with Matrix Certified Pre-Owned Nigeria Limited, a leading name in pre-owned devices have launched a “trade-in” program to enable customers trade-in their old phones for brand new ones.

One of the UK’s largest home and garden retailers, Homebase has deployed IBM Commerce to provide highly personalized shopping experiences designed to meet the needs of online shoppers.

Since its creation nine years ago, Twitter has become one of the most important and relevant platforms in the world.

Despite efforts to fix vulnerabilities by security solution and internet service providers, e-mail, system and mobile phone hacking are increasing by the day, leading to loss of sensitive data and money for both organizations and individuals.