TOP national telco, Globacom has launched Season 3 of its promo, Glo “text4millions” aimed at rewarding loyal customers on its network.

Etisalat Nigeria, last week announced the revamp of its popular promo, the 9ja free credit promo, in which it will give customers the opportunity to win a phone every five minutes throughout the months of July and August.

A 13 year student of Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls, Miss Hadiza Adeleke has emerged the only Nigerian representative at this year’s worldwide competition on Microsoft Office for secondary students, in Las Vegas, USA. The competition runs from July 29 to August 1, 2012.

THE Nigerian Academy of Engineering has said there is little or no hope in the nation’s economy until the technology-based planning is given adequate attention just as it called on practitioners to put in place policies capable to promote, direct and control technology in Nigeria.

As part of measures to build strong security and risk management practices in Financial Institutions, payments technology company, Visa Inc. on Monday inaugurated a new award for financial institutions that recognizes shares and promotes best practices in risk.

It is imperative that sooner or later, Nigeria must toe the path of development by moving away from the primitive, cash-propelled economy towards the cash-lite system like the developed nations of the world; thus the CBN’s policy that tumbled Nigeria in this direction is timely.

After a keenly contested competition in the software design category which was the top in the series of awards at the just concluded 10th annual Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition, honouring student technology innovations that address the world’s toughest problems in Sydney, Australia, Ukrainian Team, quadSquad took the top position, even as it won US$25,000.

The President of the Microsoft office division, Kurt DelBene yesterday at the company’s annual Worldwide partner conference (WPC) in Canada disclosed that 1 billion people globally now use Microsoft Office.

The software giant, Microsoft Corp. yesterday in collaboration with Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire PPI, a recognized leader in research, development and production of large-scale, multi-touch display solutions.

With the two African countries including Uganda and Egypt failing to scale the hurdle to final round in the software category design competition in the ongoing Imagine cup software competition, a global competition that challenges students to use technology to solve the world’s toughest problems, six countries including Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Taiwan and Ukraine are currently jostling to final round.