With instant messaging being the new trend in the social media space, Nigerian youths seem to be having fun with a new platform Palmchat instant mobile messaging app.

Over the last decade, Nigeria and indeed Africa, has been swimming along with the tides of technology even though this incursion into the technological world could be described as rather late.

The Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Terragon Elo Umeh, will be among the speakers at the GSMA Mobile 360 Africa event slated to hold next month in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference is expected to bring together stand-out industry leaders from all over Africa and beyond with the theme ‘Advancing Economic Inclusion, Empowerment & Growth Through Digital Channels’.

The race for the Deputy Secretary General of the ITU was seen as a straight fight between the United Kingdom and Canada. Poland also featured a lady flaunting some intimidating credentials. Nigeria didn’t feature so much in the expectations of the delegates who under- estimated the fighting spirit of the country.

Social marketplace, MoboFree.com, is set to launch its local presence in Lagos, Nigeria saying this was necessary because its registered members in Nigeria grow significantly on daily basis.

At the just concluded “Google House” initiative held in Lagos, search engine, Google, has introduced to the Nigerian market online tools like Voice Search, Maps and Google Now via the Google Search App as well as YouTube, Google+, and Play to express how best Google can be a smart intelligent assistant to people’s lives.

Global industry player in communication and collaboration, Mitel Networks Limited recently, re-launched itself, now answering the new Mitel. new identity is said to also harnesses the original Mitel heritage plus that of Astra,Telepo and Oasiys, to forge a strong business with one mission and one vision.

Africa may have adopted new technologies like big data, cloud computing and others late, but there are growing indications that these technologies however would form the pillar of development in the continent’s ICT activities.

Having consistently cried that lack of funding could mar the country’s journey to digital broadcast switch over, it seems a life line is nearby. This is as the Chairman of the NBC Governing Board, Prof. Herbert Orji, has just revealed that the commission was accessing a N200 billion funding to execute the project.

BY EMEKA AGINAM As the battle for market share in the smart phone ecosystem heightens, Samsung electronics at the weekend started singing a new song with its latest flagship,the Galaxy Note 4. The introduction of the new product, according to market findings, may have deepened fresh competition in the mobile phone market, especially in Nigeria […]