For Etisalat the best business model is not just to roll out telecom services, collect customers money and gloat over huge Return On Investments. There has to be a sense of responsibility to the business environment that should follow every business model.

Group Chairman,Zinox technologies, Mr Leo-Stan Ekeh last week, hinted that his company alone paid up to 2.1 billion in tax for the 60 percent contract share of the Direct Data Capturing DDC machines used in the registration process of the April general elections.

In a keenly contested Imagine Cup software students competition held last week at the University of Lagos Akoka, four students from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA) representing team ‘Nerds Inc’ whose software work is on Medicare that solves the problems of inadequate medical support systems in rural communities have emerged winners of Imagine Cup Nigeria finals 2011

Nigerian film industry has been described as being technology driven. This was the views of the Managing Director, Nigerian Film Corporation, NFC, Mr Afolabi Adesanya. According to him, every aspect of film production involves one form of information technology or the other.

Satellite fleet operator Intelsat reported at the weekend that one of the two principal reflector antennas on its just-launched New Dawn telecommunications satellite for South Africa has failed to deploy in orbit and that release of the other antenna will await attempts to force the first one to spring loose.

Like the biblical Exodus, software engineers and system’s technician from the nooks and crannies of the country have continued to flock down to’ the computer village in pursuit of a means of livelihood.

Chip giant Intel last Wednesday claimed a “major technical breakthrough”, introducing high volume production of the world’s first 3D transistor design. The technology could deliver significant performance gains to mobile devices while avoiding an increase in power consumption. Expect to see the developments implemented in Intel’s Atom chipsets.

The International Telecommunication Union’s , (ITU) one-size fits all universal charging solution has been further improved to maximize the benefits for end users by extending its use to a wider variety of devices and making it even more energy efficient.

The Nigerian youth IT ambassador, Miss Nkemdirim Uwaje, who is also the Managing Director of Future Software Resources Limited has been promoted to the Board member of the World Summit Youth Award, even as entry the 2011 has begun.

New indications emerging from the nation’s IT market show a renewed vigor in the battle to hold chunk sized market share between fairly used laptops popularly known an as second hand laptops and brand new computer systems and laptops with the former rising steeply in gross market sale and product popularity

DR. Jimson Olufuye is the National President of Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN and Vice Chairman of the World Information Technology Services Alliance, WITSA.

Internet users in Nigeria who may be hoping for a direct business deal with frontline broadband access providers in Nigeria, Main One cable company, to enhance their broadband end user experience, may still have to rely on the company’s resellers including major telecom operators and other ISPs.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said in Abuja that it will intensify the enlightenment campaign on the on-going, nationwide SIM registration exercise.

Later this month, we will celebrate the Nigerian children’s Day, on May 27. But from the way I see it, about the only thing we are going to get is the benefit of two days away from work and all that entails, especially if you live in bustling cities like Lagos and Port Harcourt, and other urban centres that are emulating Lagos in traffic unmanageability. That, and the bland, vacuous rhetoric of Children’s Day speeches

There appears to be battle for market lead among brand external hard drive in the in the IT market, especially in the Nigerian IT market, popularly known as Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos, where almost anything that has to do with ICT peripherals can be purchased.