By Prince Osuagwu Necessity is the mother of invention. That could be a better way to describe new mobile developments in Nigeria today. Almost in quick successions, we have, for the past one year constantly featured Nigerians who invented innovative mobile applications, gadgets and devices out of the frustrations they have either experienced as Africans […]

At the just concluded visit by the Nigerian Computer Society to the Ministry of Communications Technology and the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, how best to tackle Cybersecurity and related issues were the focus of discussion.

BENIN—GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State will, tomorrow, launch Nigeria’s first Open Data Portal in Benin.

Nigeria is doing every thing possible to ensure that the divide between women and men in technology is adequately bridged. This has resulted in many organisations, including Women in Technology in Nigeria, WITIN, Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre, Girls in ICT, Girls in Technology, among others, which crusade for women and the girl child to get actively involved in ICT.

The Business Machines Corporation, and American multinational technology and consulting corporation, IBM says it has concluded arrangement to establish two software incubation centres in Nigeria, before the end of first quarter of 2014.

As the battle for the tablet market continue to up with many device makers fighting for market supremacy, TECNO mobile is tickling Nigerian market with Tecno Phantom Pad N9, a SIM-enabled Android tablet with 4.2.1 Jelly Bean OS and 8.0″ capacitive touch screen.

IN an apparent way of positioning its customers better in the digital village, MTN has entered into a strategic partnership with frontline online retail store, Jumia, where customers of the online store who purchase any internet enabled phone, will gain free digital access for a period of 6 months.

Frequency coordination negotiations have succeeded in setting up the mechanism to deploy digital television as 47 Sub-Saharan African countries have agreed on frequency coordination for digital switch-over in 2015

Devices and services company, Microsoft has partnered with Kagiso Media to officially unveil the MSN Nigeria portal in Lagos.

Cable company,Main One, last week received a major grant by the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) to support a feasibility study on the extension of a fiber optic network from Lagos to Port Harcourt.