IF the officials of the GSM Association, GSMA, did not make a head way in their meeting with the metro and bus workers from TMB, the main public transport operator in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, participants at this year’s Mobile World Congress holding in Barcelona Spain, 27th February through 1st March 2012, may have a long trek to and from the venue of the event.

THESE days, more people, especially students and workers, including other professionals now prefer to use smart phones as broadband internet becomes more ubiquitous. Thus, it is becoming commonplace to see an upwardly mobile young professional with a smart phone, and a laptop with a modem for tasks that require more set-up than a smart phone would afford.

The Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC fight against undue interference on network took a new dimension when the commission, last weekend in Lagos clamped down on two illegal mobile phone dealers in the country.

THE World Bank, through the ACCESS Nigeria project, is to fund the training of about 1, 500 young Nigerian graduates in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Information Technology (IT) for the outsourcing Industry.

Considering that Satellite communication has always been a major backbone to the development of most advanced societies, Managing Director, Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited Engr. Ahmed-Rufai, has said that his Nigcomsat 1R project was what Nigeria needed to achieve universal access, ICT development, backbone for social, political and economic re-engineering.

RECENTLY, some newspapers went to town with an obvious misrepresentation of facts as it pertains to the 2012 budget proposal of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). Among facts contained in the draft budget is the proposal to refurbish and upgrade the six year old nine-storey head office building of the commission with the sum of N75 million. This fact has been twisted by a section of the media for still unknown purposes.

The latest communication craze among teens worldwide is SMS text messaging. Although a useful form of technology, texting can be abused or even dangerous.

A School principal, Mr Moyo Akinleye has called on the Fderal Government to review the entire curriculum of secondary education in Nigeria to incorporate information and communication technology (ICT) in the teaching-learning process.

In an apparent move to curb the alarming rate of pregnancy and childbirth related deaths through technology, Intel Corporation in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently unveiled a joint effort to strengthen the skills of midwives and community health workers.

NOW with the global meltdown, Nigerian knowledge workers are in want, and stories are circulating in the (Silicon) Valley of immigrants abandoning their cars and homes to move back in with their parents abroad. But beyond the outflow of techies, Intel, Microsoft, and others have begun worrying publicly about a much broader problem: overall U.S. tech dominance.