Newly formed Direct Mailing Practitioners Association of Nigeria , DMPAN, last week visited the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, where it received a promise that the ministry was going to support every of its worthy causes.

Starcomms Plc is offering its customers a N4 per minute on-net calls between the period of 10 pm and 7 am. The offer is to enable Starcomms customers, particularly the Muslims to share warm thoughts during the Ramadan period, while also giving opportunity to non-Muslims to extend warm greetings to their Muslim and other friends.

The need for the Nigerian lawmakers, the financial crimes investigators, the lawyers and regulatory agencies, the media, among other stakeholders to be Information Technology, IT compliant has been stressed

As Prof Attahiru Jega racks his brain to pick a company out of the seven that scaled the first huddle of the INEC contract scramble, Managing Director of NigComSat, Engr Ahmed Rufai may have Advised that there was no reason for anybody to develop migraine over the smooth delivery of the DCC machines only if the local content policy of the federal government would be applied here.

THE Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) last month, from July 26 to July 30 held its 23rd National Conference, with the theme, Realizing a Stable Democratic Political System in Nigeria: I

Even with the Basel Convention prohibiting International waste transfer, the dumping of e-waste into the Nigerian market and the rest of the African sub-region has continued to grow in geometric progression attracting both national and international regulatory authorities.

Ghana’s quest for effective and sustainable connectivity solutions for its rural community may have started yielding the expected results when stakeholders including including the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Ghana’s Ministry of Communications, the National Communications Authority (NCA), the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), among others gathered in Sunyani in the Brong-Ahafo region recently to discuss how best to expand ICT communication in under-served regions of the country.

In a surprising new wave, the popular refurbished phones commonly known as China phones notable for it’s ‘No Name’ feature and sometimes small Chinese inscriptions on weak metallic casings bearing a thousand and one key buttons – its perfect giveaway, has now metamorphosed.

Bharti Airtel, a leading telecom services provider that recently acquired zain’s Africa operations, has announced that it would invest USD 10 million in Seychelles.

It provides an efficient means of using human and institutional capabilities in an increasingly umpolar world. Information technology is one of the key determinants of competitiveness and growth of nations. Nations are becoming more competitive on the basis of their knowledge of information technology rather than on the basis of their natural endowments or low labour costs.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr. Eugene Juwah on Monday in Abuja cut the tape to signal commencement of commercial services for provision of wireless broadband services in as part of the provision of services in six states of the country by Gateway Business.

A conference to brainstorm on the current challenges relating to infrastructure, security and government policies slowing down the benefits accruable from a virile ICT growth for 2011 is to hold in Nigeria.

An American researcher and assistant professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Interactive Computing, Atlanta Georgia, Michael Best, recently, exclusively told Vanguard CyberLIFE that the major reason for the bottlenecks experienced at every internet exchange point online, especially between local and foreign based ISPs is because both ISP classes “do not trust each other”.

Zinox Chairman Mr Leo-Stan Ekeh, has flaunted the capacity enhancement his company has consistently carried out in the last three years as a confidence to deliver on good time, the INEC e-equipment needed for the electronic registration and voting in the 2011 general elections if he was awarded the contract.

CLOUD computing presents a viable option for IT organizations seeking to reduce the complexity within their IT environments, either by means of converged systems that arrive pre_integrated and ready to use or systems that are offsite entirely. In both scenarios, the pursuit of cloud computing options will drive new spending on server hardware.