In partnership with Microsoft Nigeria, Reliance Infosystems has unveiled Microsoft Azure as a timely measure to alleviating high IT capital expenditure by businesses.

As part of its $600 million investment plan in France in the coming 5 years, Huawei yesterday opened its first global research center focused on innovation in aesthetics and design.

IT goes without saying that technologies that blaze the trail are those that can efficiently combine user friendliness with style to suit consumer needs. It is for this reason that experts believe that smartwatches are sure to be the big tech item of 2015, as their appeal derives from not just their increased capabilities, but conscious attempts at creating visually striking technology that fits seamlessly into users’ everyday lives.

Microsoft through the 4Afrika initiative in collaboration with with the Botswana Innovation Hub, the Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP), Global Broadband Solutions, Vista Life Sciences, BoFiNet, Adaptrum and USAID-NetHope, has launched a new TV white spaces (TVWS) pilot project.

The Ethisphere Institute, the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices, yesterday announced that Dell has been recognized by as a 2015 World’s Most Ethical Company.

Chip maker, Intel Corporation has thrown its weight behind the 11th edition of the National Festival of School Science fair kicking off in Ado -Ekiti, Ekiti State this weekend.

While smartphones are becoming a vital part of online shopping across the globe as a result of mobile devices, new findings from Google’s consumer Barometer tool released Wednesday has revealed that 85% of people in Nigeria use smartphones for product research as against 30% using computers and 6% using tablets respectively.

When Dr. Omobola Johnson, Minister of Communication Technology, while delivering a policy paper at the recently concluded International Telecommunications Union Conference, said that Nigeria was quickly able to contain the dreaded Ebola disease as a result of the widely available telecoms infrastructure, it again brought to the fore, how pervasive the impact of telecommunications is.

The advent of social media has made more Nigerian youths internet literate to a reasonable extent. They now access all necessary information via the internet using their mobile phone. The most visited websites by young people are social websites including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Executive Vice Chairman, EVC of the commission, Dr Eugene Juwah who has consistently reaffirmed this said his administration has deliberately made the distribution of digital dividends a cardinal point in its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to ensure that every Nigerian benefits from the telecom revolution.