Oil and Gas Executives across the country are in Portharcourt now, listening to how video solutions could improve their businesses and boost their economies.

THE Federal Government has empowered 29 local inventors and innovators with a financial grant of N18 million.

Through relentless innovation and discovery, digital media and digital convergence technologies makers, Samsung Electronics West Africa, has introduced the world’s largest smartphone, Samsung Galaxy Mega, to the Nigerian market.

It’s a single circuit board the size of a credit card with no screen or keyboard, a far cry from the smooth tablets that dominate the technology market.

…President asked to sign Biosafety bill into law
Although President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a committee to vet the long awaited biosafety bill as passed by the National Assembly before he could sign it into law, participants at the 10th anniversary of African Agricultural Technology Foundation, AATF seminar say Nigeria’s dream of achieving food sufficiency in 2015 will be a mirage, unless the country adopts biotechnology in the agric sector.

Running in its 11th year series, Microsoft Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student programme and competition has been growing from strength to strength, enabling opportunities and preparing global technology-savvy students to use their ideas and talents to change the world for better.

Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, has disclosed that an estimated 6. 2 million e-commerce related jobs will be created between now and 2015.

The Lagos State government, through the Urban Furniture Regulatory Unit,UFRU, has once again rolled out a new set of standards for the installation of communications masts in the state.

Chief Executive Officer of one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions and services for banks and retails businesses, Wincor- Nixdrof, Mr Echard Heidloff has said that he and his company see boom in the Nigerian financial market and increase in the use of Automated Teller Machines (ATM).

In support of the UN endorsement of ISPON Software initiatives as reported in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Information Economy Report 2012, Visafone boss, Mr Jim Ovia, through the Jim Ovia ICT Foundation has rolled out millions of Naira to empower winners of ISPON “Best Software Startup of the Year” award for budding IT Entrepreneurs.