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The boy who designed ‘helicopter’ in JSS1
Global economy loses $6b annually to counterfeit mobile phones
5 tech innovations only for under developed economies
Facebook @ 10: A kid changing the lives of adults!
Microsoft appoints Satya Nadella as new CEO
5 African start-ups to get grants from Microsoft 4Africa
FG begins open data initiative
Padfone: Smartphone strategy to drive the PC market?
The downside of smart phones
New BlackBerry OS 10.2 enters market
Food Security: N14bn FG grant needs technology boost
Nigerian e-market swells with Buyam.com
Right regulatory policy in BPO’ll fast link Nigeria’s MDGs — Adebayo
Tecno in ‘Talk and Clean’ against e-waste
Security certification: GIS partners STG
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SubscribeSamsung launches 2nd phase of engineering skills in Nigeria
Samsung Electronics West Africa has partnered with the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA to address the issue of technical and engineering skills shortage in Nigeria.
MyTaste reaches 36 million visitors
Food recipes and blogs are exploding on the Internet. MyTaste, one of the world’s leading food web sites, reached a total of 36 million visitors in December, breaking its own record and target. The popular web site has increased its traffic by nearly 180 per cent since January 2013, making it the one of the world’s fastest growing food web sites.
LG targets simplicity in next line of smart TVs
LG believes that humans are complex machines. Hence technology must be more complex to suit human needs. It however, noted that more complexity also means more consumer confusion. As a leader in Smart TVs, the device maker said that it is uniquely positioned to deliver to consumers the advanced user experience without the complexity. The gauntlet is set – create a simplified, intuitive system that does away with the overly complicated, sometimes awkward Smart TV platforms that have frustrated many users in the past. Below are some factors that LG will look to introduce with its next Smart TV OS
Gloo.ng in market expansion with customer fulfillment centre
One of Nigeria’s online supermarket’s, Gloo.ng, last week expanded the ecommerce ecosystem with a massive investment in a new 20,000 square feet Customer Fulfillment Center, CFC.
Building knowledge-based economy, the NCS way
AHEAD of it 2014 national conference, the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has reemphasized its commitment to facilitating the emergence of a knowledge based Nigeria.
Can 2.3GHz auction set stage for broadband revolution?
Twelve years after liberalisation, the telecommunications sector in Nigeria has transformed into a money spinner and arguably one of the country’s known economy boosters .
The mobile segment being the most active and fastest, has also shot the country into limelight among world’s most prospective technology economies.
Appropriate technology must drive the electric power system — OWOLABI
FEMI Owolabi is managing director/chief executive officer of Fembosco Engineering Ltd, a firm that specialises in electrical controls and technical products, with head offices in Lagos. After cutting his teeth at SCOA Nig Plc where he rose to become a department head, he left the transnational in 2003 and opened his own business, Fembosco.
CWG hosts CBS MBA Information session in Lagos
Just recently, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) PLC, the leading Information and Communications Technology Company in Africa,sponsored and hosted a Columbia Business School (CBS) MBA Information Session. The information session,which was held at the CWG Academy center in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, was attended by over 50 potential MBA students and provided participants information on the CBS MBA program, students’ experience, university resources, application criteria, and global alumni network from whichMBA students at CBS benefit.
LASG de-commissions unapproved communication masts in Lagos
The Lagos State Government, through the Urban Furniture Regulatory Unit, UFRU, has commenced enforcement on the compliance with the regularization of masts/base stations in the state.
The regularization made it mandatory for all owners of communication masts to dismantle and discontinue with the use of hollow pipe types of mast which was considered, according to international standard, as unsafe to public safety.
Five habits of Nigerian mobile users
If there’s any country that has experienced the digital revolution in its entirety, it is Nigeria. The GSM boom from 2001 changed the face of technology. But it didn’t end there; it birthed a new culture for the Nigerian people, creating funny habits, language and traditions. Perhaps it might be imperative to give insight on some of them:
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