While recognizing their innovative technology solutions that address the toughest challenge of the 21st century, global software giant, Microsoft yesterday, at the Opera House and National Theatre of Warsaw, Poland has announced the worldwide finals at the just concluded 2010 edition of Imagine Cup, even as it gives out cash prizes totalling $240,000 across five competition categories and six awards.

WHILE the football World Cup tournament holds in South Africa, another kind of World Cup is holding, but this time in Europe

Minister of Information and Communications, Dr. Dora Akunyiri and the Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi have thrown their weight behind the maiden edition of Information and Communication Technology Exhibition Conference, tagged ITEC Abuja 2010.

Last week, the Digital Bridge Institute; an international centre for communication studies running currently in the country in conjunction with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Georgia Tech University and the MacArthur Foundation presented a 3-day workshop on the Enhancement of Civil Society use of ICTs in Nigeria.

R&D remains the bedrock of any self-reliant national economy. The Agrarian, Industrial and ICT revolutions have all been made possible as a result of progress made in R&D in these three sectors. Advancement in these sectors is one of the indices for assessing the development and competitiveness of national economies.

RayBam ICT Training and Consultancy Institute said it is making thousands of Nigerians computer literates through Information and Communications Technology ‘ICT’ training thereby empowering them to be relevant in the society.

WEB developers and experts in Nigeria who have been monitoring debates traded on the floor of different IT summits held both locally and internationally in recent times in an attempt to finding a lasting solution to the menace posed by cyber criminals have said that by carrying out repeated hack attacks on one’s server system to test for security weaknesses, hackers may be kept at bay

Global hardware makers and printing solution providers, HP has unveiled a new category of web enabled printing solutions designed for the cloud that will, for the first time, allow people to Print from any email device to any new ePrint-enabled printer from anywhere in the world through the new HP ePrint technology ( as well as s tore documents or files in the cloud and print direct when needed.

As part of efforts aimed at cutting costs and boosting maximizing profit in a business environment, Ha-Shem Network services limited has unveiled the latest Microsoft Unified Communications solution to enable customers reap huge savings with Microsoft Unified Communications

A Texas man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter when she wouldn’t stop crying as he watched a World Cup game has been charged with capital murder.

Despite the general gloom that enveloped the Nigerian national team following the poor performance at the South Africa 2010 World Cup, there some positives in the make up of the coach Lars Lagerback squad to the Mundial.

WHILE the Federal Government seeks solutions from the private sector to the nation’s identity management crisis, winds are already being taken out of its sails with last Friday’s launching of the Edo State Citizens Identification Card by state governor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole

Last week, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU , Dr. Hamadoun Toure was in Ouagoudogu, the Burkina Faso capital, for the African ICT Best Practices forum 2010.

In a spirited effort against software piracy, the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) in conjunction with software giant, Microsoft Nigeria have raided the premises of a leading computer reseller at the Computer Village Ikeja where ICT products and peripherals are sold.

To further promote of international cooperation against cyber crimes eating deep into the soco-economic fabrics of nations of the world , the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and the Malaysia-based International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)