As part of its ongoing efforts to foster healthy and competitive economies worldwide, Microsoft Corporation recently joined the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in celebrating this year’s World Intellectual Property, IP Day,

Visafone Communications Limited recently got a major boost with the signing of sales promotion agreement with Panasonic.

The dream by MTN to empower some disabled Nigerian youths to be self sufficient as well as contribute their own quota to the economic has finally yielded result, when 45 disabled young men and women emerged graduates in skill and vocational training.

Project Light up Nigeria’, a civil group that is committed to actualizing the dreams of Nigerians and providing them with high quality and durable lighting materials is set to officially unveil its website www.projectlightupnigeria.com. The portal is aimed at projecting the tenure-based power plans of the 36 state governors, the FCT minister and the Federal Government of Nigeria.

After announcing recently that CISCO has over 1 million students on its academy recently, Hi-Tech tracked the company’s Area Academy Manager, West & Central Africa, Mr. Chinedu Dibor, and besides confirming the information, he also advised on how entreprises should help Nigeria raise trusted ICT advisers to various stake holds of the economy.

TOP telecom company MTN has announced that in a bid to provide telephone services for the rural segments of the country in a way that would solely benefit the rural based subscriber, the MTN Talk Talk Service will be launched soon.

ETISALAT Nigeria has expanded its reach to Edo State, with the unveiling of its Experience centre in the Benin, the state capital.

Managing Director of NigComSat, Engr. Ahmed Rufai, at the weekend, assured the science and Tech ministry that the NigComSat1R pre launch conference holding tomorrow in Abuja, would live up to its billing of stimulating satellite business interests for the country.

Team Nerds, a team of four students from University of Technology, Akure, represented Nigeria in the just concluded 2011 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals held in New York, the United States of America.

Even as a large percentage of the African population are yet to make their first phone call, many others are connected to the world through their cell phones. Today, the penetration of mobile phones in many African countries is higher than the world average and data on the number of mobile subscriptions per 100 people show that penetration rates in Algeria, South Africa, Gabon, Tunisia, Mauritius, Botswana, Morocco and Mauritania are all above the world average of 60%.

Computer Aid International, the world’s largest and most experienced not-for-profit (NFP) provider of professionally refurbished PCs will be holding series of information sessions in Kaduna, Abuja, and Ile-Ife as part of the bid to increase awareness on PC usage and improve IT capacity of Nigerians through affordable PCs.

Global electronics giant, Sony Gulf, at the weekend,highlighted the benefits of convergence of technologies when it unveiled 25 BRAVIA TV models into the Nigerian market.

HP and Intel have launched a one month campaign called the Summer Splash promo which targets lucky consumers who will get a 60 day internet connection from Airtel and a chance to win three grand prizes and then an all expenses paid weekend, with every purchase of elected HP Intel based notebooks.

Telecom giant MTN recently launched a new MTN talk on logo to mark it’s tenth year anniversary of operating in the country’s massive telecom and mobile business market at an elaborate ceremony held in Ikeja, Lagos.

THE National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), has said all is now set for the commencement of the issuance of new national identity numbers to Nigerians, beginning next month.