For efficient record keeping and elimination of the trauma associated with manual registration, as well as prevalent exam malpractices resulting from poor monitoring, Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited, a Microsoft Gold Partner, has designed an e-registration system for the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB).

In a bid to provide a platform for a wealth creation among Nigerian youths, a leading global internet trade firm, MannaMart Online Ltd Group has launched www.MannaStores.com, a procurement company with presence in UK and Nigeria.

The National Software Policy Review Committee, (NSPC) will this week submit the draft copy of the National Software Policy to the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) for review by the governing board of the regulatory authority, Chairman of the National Software Policy Committee, (NSPC) Professor Wole Akinyokun has said.

AS you read this, the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) is holding its 10th International Conference at the International Conference Centre, in Abuja.For those who may not know, NCS, apart from being the organized platform for all computer professionals in the country, also incorporates the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN), and the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON).

Symantec says it has expanded its encryption solution set with the introduction of Symantec PGP Viewer for iOS, which enables mobile workers to view encrypted email on an Apple iPad, iPhone, or iTouch, and a new version of Symantec Endpoint Encryption Full Disk Edition.

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%.