Chairman Zinox Technologies Limited, Mr Leo Stan Ekeh, last week told a gathering of business moguls at the 13th Annual Africa Business Conference in the Harvard Business School, that Politics is often unpredictable in Africa and the polity is neither guided by ideologies or time tested traditions

By the time the 2011 Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Presidential Dinner held in Lagos last week Friday was drawing to a close

The International Chamber of Commerce, ICC) Business Action to support the Information Society (BASIS) initiative has reaffirmed its support for the unique Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and urged that participation remains open to all and that discussions on Internet policy take development issues into consideration

The Finish Frontline mobile phone provider, Nokia has said that it would work with the local authorities in the Nigerian market to stamp out to the barest minimum all forms of counterfeiting, even as it outlined plans to be the market leader in smartphone segment which is now becoming the toast of many consumers around the world

By the time the marriage between Finish phone maker, Nokia and the global software giant , Microsoft regarding windows 7 operating systems platform was announced at the just concluded 2011 edition of Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain, it was clear that the battle for mobile ecosystem in Windows 7 operating system platform among operators has just begun, a market scenario that is expected to bring cost of the product down.

At the recent concluded Mobile Web West Africa conference in Lagos, Hi-Tech ran into the President/CEO of Medallion Communication limited, one the licensed Interconnect Clearing houses, Mr. Ike Nnamani, who was one of the speakers.

No doubt, Information Technology continues to breach new knowledge boundaries all around the world. Today, ‘complicated’ professions like solar engineering now can be studied to near perfection on the internet.

It seems the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, is now ready to make good its threat of penalising operators whose quality of service, QoS, do not give good taste.

An alleged spurious telephone bill is setting Nigeria’s largest telecom operator, MTN, on war part with two of its business package subscribers, Messrs Umana Okon Umana, and Senator Anietie Okon.

An internet radio station with plans to stream radio broadcast at royalfm website and also on wavelength 95.1 KHz in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital is set to come on stream.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Eugene Juwah, made several rounds at the various sessions of the GSMA Mobile World Congress which ended in Barcelona Spain at the weekend with a call on major operators and vendors in Nigeria to improve on their current investments in the various networks so as to achieve better quality of service and price reduction.

Governor of Cross Rivers State, Senator Liyel Imoke has been announced to be the chairman of the annual President’s Dinner of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, scheduled to hold on Friday, 25th of February, 2011 at the Annex Exployere Restaurant of Federal Palace Hotel (NEW WING), Lagos.

Broadband is also classified as the opportunity, ability and capability to engage the historical momentum of global information system and content transformation processes.

Price monitoring inside the nation’s IT market over the weekend have yet again given indications that the downward plunge witnessed in the last few weeks in prices of computers and laptops may not end soon as latest information from published price listings inside the market show that the price of mini laptops have yet again dropped further; from forty five thousand to forty thousand naira.

The rollout of LTE networks and new cloud based services this year will mark the start of a new era for mobile innovation this was said with optimism that by the Chief Executive Officer of Google, Eric Schmidt during his speech at the ongoing MWC that will end tomorrow in Barcelona, Spain,