An Africa-focused social networking site, Yookos, developed in Nigeria with current six million active users is targeting 20 million active users by the end of the current financial year.

Ministry of Communication Technology will next week in Lagos hold talk with the stakeholders in the Nigerian IT industry on the draft ICT policy earlier released last January by the ministry for comments and suggestions from stakeholders and the general public.

Man is always on the move. In this part of the world, the culture behoves him to cater for a lot of other people other than his immediate family. The environment, inadequate infrastructure and lack of maintenance culture also puts pressure on him.

With the fast growing access to ICT facilities, it has been disclosed that exposure of pupils to online competitions, will improve their performance in mathematics, spelling and other science-related subjects.

The Senior Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media on Facebook’s partnership with the mobile industry, Paul Lambert , on Monday at the ongoing Mobile World Congress holding in Barcelona, Spain disclosed that the social network giant has pledged to help do away with fragmented mobile browser standards and to help operators bill for purchases made through internet applications.

The software giant, Microsoft has began search for software talents around the world even as it urges young Nigerians in the tertiary institutions around the country to enter the world’s premier student technology competition called Microsoft Imagine Cup software competition.

American multinational internet and software corporation specialized in internet search cloud computing, Google has introduced into the market Chrome, a web browser application now available on Android smartphone.

INDICATIONS emerged last week on why the Central Bank of Nigeria denied telecommunication operators the license to operate mobile money services.

Vodacom Business, one of the leading provider of pan-African corporate total communication solutions has introduced its latest solutions, AfricaIPconnect to Nigeria IT market.

WHERE lies the future of Cross River State within the context of national and global competitiveness and who is capable of delivering that future? This question may look complex to engage, evaluate and provide a responsively proactive solution. However, on a closer look, we begin to understand that, though, it is a food for thought at this particular time in the history of the State, the answer to the above question comes handy and indeed very simple!

CHairman of Globacom, Nigeria’s national telecoms operator, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jnr. (CON) has said that women empowerment is a necessity for the development of any nation.

Designed as a social network to keep up with friends, share ideas, photos, links and many more in the new information order, social media, according to findings is killing creative writings among students in both secondary and higher institutions.

IF the officials of the GSM Association, GSMA, did not make a head way in their meeting with the metro and bus workers from TMB, the main public transport operator in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, participants at this year’s Mobile World Congress holding in Barcelona Spain, 27th February through 1st March 2012, may have a long trek to and from the venue of the event.

THESE days, more people, especially students and workers, including other professionals now prefer to use smart phones as broadband internet becomes more ubiquitous. Thus, it is becoming commonplace to see an upwardly mobile young professional with a smart phone, and a laptop with a modem for tasks that require more set-up than a smart phone would afford.

The Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC fight against undue interference on network took a new dimension when the commission, last weekend in Lagos clamped down on two illegal mobile phone dealers in the country.