Technology was at work last week when a car tracking device foiled the snatching of an exotic Audi Q7 car by armed robbers.

Special Government Adviser to GSM Africa, GSMA, Mr Ross Bateson has declared that with such limited existing fixed line infrastructure, Mobile Broadband remains the most flexible, feasible and cost effective means to deliver internet connectivity across rural and urban areas of Nigeria.

In a bid to promote the teaching and learning of Information and Communication Technology (ICT ) in Schools and Communities, Fresh Brain Komputers is organising a “Brain Search TV Reality Show”which will expose millions of Nigerians Students to computer knowledge.

As the nation continues to savour in the thrills and frills of her 50 years of nationhood sojourn, with various sectors of the economy showcasing their exploits in the period under review, Bethany Hall Primary School, Ogudu, Lagos in partnership with New Horizons Systems Solutions Limited recorded a landmark for Nigeria by presenting first six pupils, who broke the world record in the last Microsoft Office Specialists (MOS) examination, making them the youngest Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs).

With the growing concern over digital colonization of Nigerian market by the foreign vendors in a way of technology transfer, the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion, (NOTAP) has drawn the line on technology transfer, saying that it is compulsory for foreign investors to strictly adhere to guidelines for the registration of Technology transfer agreements so as to achieve easy entry into the Nigerian market.

While Nigerian market remains porous to foreign vendors who operate without compliance to regulatory requirements , many Chinese firms operating in the country are yet to comply with technology transfer agreement despite several projects implemented by these firms.

To position West African sub-regions to optimize the use of Open Source solutions, Open source resource center has been launched in the Ghana-India Kofi Annam Center of Excellence in ICT in Ghana.

Despite intense efforts at curbing the exploding human population inside the nations biggest ICT market; the Otigba market popularly known as Computer Village by relevant law enforcement agencies in the state, traders at the market have, for the umpteenth time spilled out unto the roads and into neighboring communities behind the market, causing traffic jams while their activities make the living environment uncomfortable for residents there.

The worldwide leader in securing the Internet, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, has announced the introduction of Software Blade Architecture, the industry’s first architecture to meet businesses’ need for total, flexible and manageable security to the Nigerian customers.

Walk with me in memory to one of the greatest celebrations, the end of the colonial era in Africa. The day: October 1, 1960. The place: British West Africa. The setting: A crowded stadium in the Atlantic coastal town of Sapele. School children were waving green and white flags in honour of the birth of modern Nigeria, no longer part of the British Empire.

Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah last Friday held his first ever closed-door meeting between the regulatory agency and chief executive officers of telecom firms operating in the country.

As part of its Corpo rate Social Responsibility, (CSR), fixed wireless phone operator, Multi-Links Telkom, has donated medical equipment valued at about N6 million to the Paediatrics Department of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH)

Google Africa has gone into partnership with Nigerian universities to improve internet access to students in the country.

The Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) Christoph Riess has said that paid-for digital content holds the future for the newspaper industry as internet advertising revenues will never replace those lost to print.

If recent projections fall in place, Nigeria may have another Communications Satellite in the Orbit before November 2011. This is as reliable information from NigComSat, says that programmes leading to the actualisation of replacement for the lost NigComSat1 was making tremendous progress.