Effectiveness and Cost Advantage of IP Surveillance SolutionsNetworked IP camera systems have cost advantages, as the required wiring is less expensive. Especially the fact that IP networks can be used for purposes of other data transmission, such as email, file transfers etc.

Media based Non governmental Organisation, the Joint Action Committee for ICT Development and Awareness (JACITAD) last week paid a condolence visit to the management and staff of Focus Television, to commiserated with them on the fire disaster that razed down its office facilities located at Lateef Jakande Road, Ikeja.

There is likely going to be a quake in the Nigerian mobile phone market very soon, as an Indian mobile phone manufacturer plans to storm the market, threatening to shake the foundations of the existing brands in the market today.

In keeping faith to the new Central bank policy of revamping the nation’s security printing system, Superflux International limited last week commissioned a new ultra-modern factory in its headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos.

For local software providers to measure up with their counterparts in most countries of the world, they must be exposed to the modern and proper way of software development.

Barely two weeks after the commissioning of Nigeria’s first Internet exchange point, IXPN, the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, the Nigerian Computer Society, NCS and the Association Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria, ATCON have all commended the initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission, (NCC).

THE shaky take-off of the on-going registration of voters for this year’s general elections is attributable to a combination of INEC’s choice of software, registration officials who have little knowledge of the machines they are to use, and logistics, according to Vanguard findings.

Today, institutions of all kinds – especially the Fortune Five Hundred multinationals, financial institutions, mega business outfits, government entities, electoral processes and e-voting, e-government operations, banking and finance, sports complexes and stadia, airports, hospitality and entertainment centres, shopping malls, mass transport facilities, and others such as hospitals, court rooms, server rooms, automated systems and military bases, etc, are being challenged to install video surveillance in areas that are too complex and remote, too costly or physically impossible to reach with traditional monitoring methods.

Until industry stakeholders pull resources together late last year, to hit at counterfeit phones, the Nigerian mobile phone market was awash with sub standard phones allegedly imported illegally from Asian countries.

While calling for youth empowerment through Information Technology tools, the Nigerian Youth IT Ambassador, Nkemdilim Uwaje recently led a team of Bake for change in a Christmas visit to many remand homes including Lagos State Transit Home for Kids, Lagos State Correctional Centre for Boys, Lagos State Old People’s Home, Lagos State Children’s Transit Home.

Information and Communication Technologies, ICT have been described as the best way to tackle the new wave of crimes such as bombing in the country.

LOW computer literacy and poor performance in computer subjects examinations by Nigerian students has become a source of concern to IT stakeholders.

Two weeks into the new years celebration prices of mobile devices in Computer Village popularly known as Otigba market have dropped by 10 percent.

With the commissioning of the first Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, (IXPN)last week in Lagos by the Nigerian Communication Commission, (NCC), Nigeria is expected to experience immediate drop in connectivity costs to the tune of more than $20 million in offshore bandwidth payments in the first year of operations.

In a bid to ensure a more collaborative and harmonious co-operation among players in the telecom sector in the country, the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) in its 2011 outlook released at the weekend said it is ready to collaborate with all industry players and the public on every initiative that conforms with its mission for the year.