You’ve most likely heard that since pop singer Goldie Harvey passed away, someone has been using her twitter handle. Everyone seemed comfortable when her ‘admin’ tweeted posts about Goldie’s burial arrangements. But when the tides turned barely three weeks after her death and someone with access to her account saw it as a good platform to advertise Nigerian films and movie, it freaked people out. So everyone knows Goldie is dead, and the massive outcry is against the insensitivity of it all. But, what about you?

While software piracy continues to cause more economic harm than good, new study commissioned by Microsoft and Corp and conducted by IDC has revealed that consumers will spend 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion identifying, repairing and recovering from the impact of malware, while global enterprises will spend $114 billion to deal with the impact of a malware-induced cyber attack.

Smarting from his exploits at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, has declared that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, would enjoy up to 15 percent increase from ICT contributions in 2015.

THE Federal Government has been called upon, as a matter of urgent national importance, to initiate a policy of subsidy of computer ownership for students at various levels of education in the country.

THE National Identity Management Commission NIMC is gearing up to kick start a data collection exercise which would put the country among the top information managers in the world.

About 238 Nigerian students in public tertiary institutions in the Northern zone, were recently presented with N200,000 scholarship awards, each, by the MTN foundation.

…says it will unlock youth IT potentials
Director – General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Professor Cleopas Angaye, has commended the various e-learning initiatives of government and the private sector across the country, saying that among other things, they will provide the breeding ground for the eventual increase in Information Technology potentials of Nigerian youths.

At the just concluded developer’s workshop held recently in Lagos, the global software giant, Microsoft sharpened developers’ skills using its innovative products and solutions.

The channel manager of the global leader in financial fraud prevention solutions, Trusteer, Amit Wohl has said that the range of service solutions in its offering will help financial institutions protect their businesses and retain banking customers against account takeover, credential theft and fraudulent transactions.

After accreditation visits to private and public Computer Training institutions across the nation in order to ensure quality control assurance in IT education , the Computer Professionals (Registration Council) of Nigeria (CPN) at the end of its 65th regular Council meeting held recently in Lagos approved the results of accreditation teams to three Universities as well as two private computer training schools.

Dimension Data last week introduced its global Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) in Nigeria, promising that it was going to serve the needs of both public and private enterprise, as well as service providers.

The White House said Monday it agrees with a citizen petition arguing that “jailbreaking” of mobile phones to allow users to switch carriers should be legal.

Smartphone sales are expected to extend their strong growth trend in 2013 with some 918 million units worldwide, led by gains in big emerging markets China, Brazil and India, a survey showed Monday.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Friday estimated that 2.7 billion people, representing 39 per cent of the world’s population, would be using the Internet by the end of 2013.

There are so many advantages of having lots of friends and contacts on a social media website such as Facebook. It gives you the opportunity to sell your ideas, interact and publicize your brand. What’s more, it’s mostly free! So it has got to be quite disappointing when your friend requests go unanswered and your status is starved for likes, when no one seems to care about your carefully carved comments or your award winning pictures and everyone ignores your banners and posters. If Facebook is just a place to catch up with a few old friends and family, then this piece is not for you. So whether you’re advertising yourself or your brand, here are some ways to put your best foot forward when going about it: