With its recent International Arch of Europe award based on ISO QC100 standard, the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) has called on the United Nations to as a matter of urgency establish a $100 billion digital marshal plan fund’ (DMPF) for the current and emerging Africa digital disaster (ADD).

The software giant, Microsoft has announced opportunity for action a commissioned report from the International Youth Foundation, which documents the growing economic and social challenges facing youth around the world and the urgent need to provide the education, skills and employment opportunities required for them to succeed in today’s rapidly changing global economy.

While software piracy stifle innovation, harm local economies, the software giant, Microsoft in collaboration with the Nigerian Copyright Commission. NCC, at the just concluded World Intellectual Property day held recently in Lagos said that unless software piracy was fought with concerted efforts,local economies will continue suffer.

AHEAD of the actualisation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in the country in the next few months, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has directed network operators to provide the service free to subscribers. Mobile Number Portability allows subscribers to migrate from one service provider to another and still retain their numbers.

The IT Business Incubation Development Centre committee earlier set up the Ministry of Communication Technology has said that most of the ICT departments in Nigerian universities were not updated regularly, resulting in a generally low quality of knowledge among ICT graduates who are potential entrepreneurs.

Second National operator, Globacom has introduced a new roaming package which tends to further unify three African countries, Nigeria, Gnana and Benin Republic. The service offers a uniform local tariff and allows the use of local Glo recharge cards in any of these three countries.

Last week, a number of notable ICT organisations including the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, telecom companies, MTN Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria and second national operator, Globacom rallied round another Nigeria ICT outfit, Logica Media group, which sought to bring the right attitudinal change to the issue of cashless society initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

TO stimulate growth of Information Communication Technology ICT sector in Nigeria. the Ministry of Communication Technology has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nokia.

At the ongoing Impact 2012 , the premier conference for business and IT leadership holding in Las Vegas, United States of America, IBM unveiled its first ever Mobile Foundation, a comprehensive portfolio of software and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments — including laptops, smartphones and tablets.

Two young Nigerian internet entrepreneurs at the weekend, emerged millionaires in the Nigerian Internet Group, NIG’s Internet for Job I4J competition.

SECOND National Carrier, Globacom opened a new phase of its multinational operations last Sunday as Glo Mobile Ghana formally announced the commencement of commercial services in the country.

Committed to improving data center efficiency lifecycle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) in collaboration with Intel Zion Processor has launched a US $300 million HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) servers, a new line of servers acclaimed to be “the industry’s most self-sufficient”.

Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday unveiled a revamped BlackBerry platform that discards the smartphone’s trademark keyboard to embrace apps, touchscreens and other trendy features.

After initially naming five foreign based players in Obiora Nwankwo, Gege Soriola, Nnamdi Oduamadi, Raheem Lawal and Ekigho Ehiosun, Super Eagles boss, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi moved swiftly to dispel rumours over the list of home-based players for the international friendly against Peru by announcing the names of 26 players for the match.

At the ongoing Impact 2012 conference holding in Las Vegas, United States of Aamerica, the International Business Machine, (IBM) has introduced a range of new business integration software capabilities called WebSphere Application Server.