After a traumatising period of blackberry services black out, last week, users all over the world have been asking for compensation for the pains of not connecting to loved ones and business associates.

THE city of Durban South Africa, would light up December as the whole world gather for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC popularly called Conference of the Parties (COP-17).

THE Federal Government has been advised to double its efforts at improving power generation across the country so as to get the economy off ground.

To save the nation’s locally developed software applications from total collapse, the institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) has called on the Federal Government to establish as matter of urgency a National Software Innovative Fund with a start-up sum of N5 billion.

Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday set out to rev up its BlackBerry and PlayBook lines with a tactic from Apple’s winning playbook — sexy, entertaining software applications.

The World bank has said that all players in African Global System for Mobile Communications networks, GSM, Nigeria inclusive would need about $15.5bn to enhance GSM coverage across the continent.

RECENTLY, the Nigerian Computer Society, Lagos State chapter held its annual conference and Golden award ceremony in Lagos. The conference, which is a new version, attracted information technology professionals within and outside the state, with the aim of celebrating past outstanding senior members of the society. Shortly after the conference, the new President of the Nigeria Computer Society, Mr. Demola Aladekomo was cornered by journalists to speak on his new office, IT curriculum, policies and what the award portends to the industry. Excerpts:

In keeping with the mood of the global trends with cutting edge technologies and to meet the cravings of its teeming customers, Starcomms Plc, last week introduced Huawei IDEOS C8150 Android phones into the Nigerian market. It also launched another value added service called S-Credit.

NUMBER portability services, which will allow phone users to move from one network to another without losing their numbers will soon become a definite reality as the the Nigerian Communications Commission has announced the appointment of a consortium of three companies to implement the project.

TOP GSM services provider, Airtel Nigeria has reached an accord with its partners -Spanco and Tech Mahindra, as well as NLC and NUPTE (National Union of Post and Telecommunications Employees). As a result, the telco’s offices in Abuja and other parts of the country, shut down in the wake of a dispute, re-opened for business.

THe reality today translates to the fact that it should be abundantly clear to us, that the era and long-addicted habit of physically and blindly chasing the containers and cargo packages at all our import terminals and air/land boarders and throwing away the content of the manifest documents that represent the knowledge-base and real world inside the containers, must be over by now.

As part of its commitment and response to customer’s need internet experience, Etisalat Nigeria last week introduced its high speed Broadband internet service called Easyblaze.

As the National Software Innovation Cup (NASOFT), initiated by the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) draws nearer, there appears to be growing anxiety among 15 teams from the Nigerians tertiary institutions currently struggling to win the One Million Naira (N1m) including IT tools prize.

Look closely at the marketing strategies used by Steve Jobs and other visionaries and the first thing that comes to mind is the realisation that marketing is not a democratic process and that those who are really successful at it are, yes, visionaries.

EXECUTIVE Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah has announced a major staff movement in which three directors, two deputy directors, eight assistant directors and more than a dozen other managers moved to new positions.