Airtel Nigeria has unveiled a set of data-rich voice packages designed to provide distinctive telecoms solutions for the youth, High Network Individuals and the mass market segment.

THE National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has announced that all is now set for e-Nigeria Conference 2012. The IT summit, expected to host global leaders and showcase business and knowledge innovators and investors across the continent, will hold in Abuja from Tuesday November 20 Thursday November 22.

For enhancing student success through innovative use of technology in the classroom, the software giant, Microsoft, yesterday announced that 18 educators from Nigeria, Ghana, Jordan, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Lebanon, Qatar, Turkey, South Africa, Egypt, UAE, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Uganda and Morocco will represent the Middle East and Africa in the Partners in Learning Global forum which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic from November 28 to December 1 2012.

When I was invited to speak at the 2012 ISPON National Software Conference and Competition at Tinapa, Cross River State, I was immediately interested in attending. A few years back I had spent a considerable amount of time and energy preparing for a trip that was designed to lay the foundations for a formal film school in Lagos.

The Centre for Infrastructure, Policy, Regulation and Advancement (CIPRA) at Lagos Business School, and the Infrastructure Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC), today in Lagos signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between CIPRA and ICRC.

After a keenly contested software competition involving 17 schools from Nigerian tertiary institutions last week at the African knowledge city, Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River state, two software innovators from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State won the 2012 national software Innovation competition organized for students in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

At the open door event held Tuesday in Lagos, the software giant, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8, a wide range of apps available on more than 1000 Windows 8 certified PCs and tablets to its customers and partners in Nigeria.

For many manufacturers of Airconditioners in Nigeria, lack of skilled local based personnel and unstable power supply are the bane of growth of the sector. However, LG Electronics appears to have crossed that huddle with the introduction of what it called superior and high technological applications in the manufacture of its latest series of airconditioners.

Airtel Nigeria has attributed flooding and attacks on its installations to the poor network services experienced recently. It said attacks on its 53 installations have disrupted operations in 193 sites across the Northern part of Nigeria.

After  a keenly contested software competition involving 17  schools from Nigerian tertiary institutions on Tuesday night at the  African knowledge city,  Tinapa, Calabar, Cross River state, two software incubators  from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State won the 2012 national software Innovation competition  organized for students in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

Unless issues around data security, infrastructure, jurisdiction and legislation, compliance, ownership of data, among others were resolved urgently, Nigeria’s quest for the adoption of cloud computing in the 21st century knowledge society may remain fjust that — a quest.

Over time, the criticism of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has been that as an agency of government empowered in 2007 to develop parameters for ICT growth in Nigeria, it has been lacking on the duty.

An African web portal, Howzit MSN is partnering with Ad Dynamo, a South African ad-serving firm to help monetize the growing web traffic in Nigeria.

Microsoft has announced the global availability of the next version of its best-selling Windows operating system, Windows 8.

New Horizons Nigeria, a franchise of New Horizons Worldwide, the world’s largest independent IT Training organisation with offices in 80 countries and six continents of the world has emerged Microsoft 2012 Valued Partner, putting the organization in the top five per cent of Microsoft’s ecosystem globally.