A new report launched recently by ITU and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) on how to use ICTs in tackling climate change has highlighted how Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are of fundamental importance in reducing greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, as well as in helping countries everywhere adapt to climate change and to deal with its sometimes catastrophic effects.

It’s no secret that this year’s Consumer Electronics Show will be rife with new Android tablets, with PC makers Lenovo and Toshiba among the latest to throw their hats into the tablet ring. But the news that TV manufacturer Vizio is boldly jumping into the Android tablet fray comes as something of a surprise.

What do you call it when you have 120,000 people and an elephant in the room? The International Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off this week in Las Vegas.

For the Information and Communications Technology ICT sector, the year 2010 began with high hopes , progressed with some belief and ended with a lot of disappointments.

Etisalat Nigeria, lead sponsor of the ongoing Nigerian Idol reality show has announced the introduction of voice voting, a new, innovative voting service to enhance subscribers’ voting for their favorite contestants throughout the duration of the Nigerian Idol show.

One of the CDMA operators in the country, Starcomms has introduced a tablet PC called ‘myPad’.
Starcomms said the newly introduced product is its first ever mobile one-stop shop for all internet and PC needs of Nigerians.

Smarting from the launch of the second season of its customer promo tagged, Text4millions 2 and subsequently reedeming prizes for the first set of winners in the promo penultimate week, Second National Telecommunications operator, Globacom has also expressed appreciation to its business partners nationwide by hosting them in a classy and exclusive evening in Lagos .

Oluwakemi Obe, a widow and primary school teacher, has emerged winner of the $10, 000 grand prize of Airtel’s MAMA trivia competition.

The second Broadband Summit organized by e_Business Life Communication has been slated to hold in Abuja in February 2011.
The seminar which has its theme as: Broadband Revolution:

RECENTLY at the Nigerian Computer Society-organised National Information Technology Merit Awards and Nigeria at 50: Impact of IT on National Development, majority of Nigerian IT Professionals who spoke to CyberLIFE on the position of ATCON on NITDA noted that NITDA is currently moving in the right direction.

Dell Computers has said it would be launching new product in the coming year, even as it appointed Redington Nigeria, an IT player as one of its distributors in Nigeria for Dell Consumer, Small & Medium Business Products.
Dell’s Head of Global Product and Management, Middle East, Turkey and Africa Pearce Clune, at a product presentation to Redington dealers and computer vendors said the company would be entering 2011 with mid/ high range products, some of which will be launched in Nigeria earlier 2011.

As part of its ongoing Smart Centre promo, Starcomms, one of the CDMA operators in Nigeria, Starcomms last weekend splashed gift items worth over N25 million on its loyal customers.

Telecom giant, Airtel Nigeria has reiterated its committed to providing quality education to poor children, even as it said that education of less privileged children would result in true freedom to earn, choose and live aright.

A rather unusual but heated debate had erupted during a session at the NITMA awards organised by the Nigeria Computer Society NCS in Lagos recently during which leading stakeholders in the sector and the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN; Dr. Jimson Olufuye had argued vehemently over the proper acronym to call the sector: IT or ICT?

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