Territory Manager for Intel in South and Sub Saharan Africa, Jacques van Schalkwyk, has said that Intel’s researchers are cooking up a number of ways to advance computing and create a new experience for PC end users.

Nigeria’s computer regulatory body, the Computer Professionals Nigeria (CPN) is rooting for the deployment of IT in Nigeria’s economy. The CPN is urging for a stronger policy thrust that will enable IT to be more integrated in government processes to achieve greater speed and efficiency in delivering the benefits of governance to the people.

The constant toga Nigeria wears as a country that hardly organises any free and fair election is beginning to worry not only the Nigerian people but some Nigerian corporate organisations.

In apparent bid to change the face of business operations in Nigerian, network solutions provider, CISCO Systems Nigeria has announced the introduction of a borderless Network service in Nigeria.The multi-dimensional broadband architecture service is expected to provide borderless services to Nigerian end users in three major areas of data, voice and video.

Etisalat Nigeria at the weekend, formally introduced a repackaged and recharged Easy Starter into the market. The Easy Starter package is the flagship product of the company designed for the larger mass of the innovative company’s customers.

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, yesterday in Abuja, declared that any restrictions to deployment of masts and tower across the country by any government agency, state or local government, will negate the efforts of government to attract investments in the sector and will also worsen the quality of services in the telecom industry.

In yet another record breaking achievement, Dansol High school, Agidimmgbi, Lagos in partnership with an ICT training institute, New Horizons Systems Solutions Ltd, last week presented two pupils from the Nursery & Primary levels of the School , who become young Microsoft certified professional after passing the Microsoft Professional Examination.

CDMA operator, Starcomms says it is striving hard to make talk cheap and easy between its customers in Nigeria and their loved ones abroad. To ensure that it achieves that mandate, the company recently slashed its international call rate.

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