Despite good outing, Nigerian students have failed to scale the hurdle to round two of ongoing Imagine Cup 2011 in the software design category.

Eight African countries including Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda are currently flying African flags at the ongoing Microsoft Imagine Cup, the wouldc’s premier students technology competition holding in New York, the Unted States of America.

While most talented global students gather for the 2011 Imagine Cup series in New York, the United States of America, the Chief Executive Officer of the global software giant, Steve Ballmer has challenged over 400 software incubators currently participating in the competition to solve the Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) including poverty, education, disease, environmental sustainability among others with technology.

As over 120 software solutions battle to win people choice award through online voting system, Medicare software application designed by four students from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA) flying Nigerian flag at the ongoing 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup students technology contest holding in New York, the United States of America, has been ranked 4th position globally.

Alcatel_Lucent has unlocked the potential for radical new Internet applications and services with a technology seen as the key to greater capacity, faster connections and reduced congestion on the web.

Determined to bridge the existing gap between mobile phone users, dealers, brand owners and telecom operators in the country, an event manager and trade promotion firm, Kristal Stone Promotion company says all is now set for its first mobile phone fair today in Lagos.

The heavy rains that has been witnessed in the past few weeks have forced business inside the nation’s largest ICT market; the Computer Village to grind literally to a halt.

The International Business Machine, (IBM) recently partnered with Nigeria’s foremost ICT solutions provider, Net Solutions Limited in a one day seminar on smarter business infrastructure for its various customers.

There may be no end in sight to street trading in the Nigerian ICT markets despite ban by the Lagos State Ministry of Environment even as street urchins collect N300.00 daily from hawkers.

Indications has emerged that major stakeholders in the Nigeria broadband resources have sealed a deal with the umbrella body of the industry association, ATCON, to fashion out means of expanding the penetration and fine tuning the investment strategies.

The Chief Executive Officer of AAA Infotek Limited, Mr Akinbo Akinlabi has said that his company has developed a solution that would assist telecoms operators to optimize their services and reduce costs.

WELL, it’s really mind-boggling the magnitude of problems that we have to surmount if we are to be a competitive economy, and if Vision 20-2020 will not remain mere rhetoric.

Now that the bill seeking the creation of Information Technology Ministry has been approved by the National Assembly following the recent announcement by the presidency for the creation of the ministry, there appears to be jostling among core IT professionals over who becomes the new Minister of Information Technology.

To achieve digital inclusion in the 21st century knowledge economy, stakeholders from public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy at the end of the just concluded National Information Technology Public and Private Forum (NITPPF), held in Edo State, outlined strategies for a digital Nigeria.

Telecom giant MTN Nigeria has ended it’s twenty one days of giving and sharing within host communities scattered across the nation at a lavish ceremony held recently at the company’s headquarters in Lagos.