In an apparent response to the energy challenges that low scale entrepreneurs contend with all over the country, especially those operating open air telephone centers, Starcomms Plc, said it is giving out free solar chargers to some of its high performing Telecentre operators in the country.

Anabel Mobile, has introduced into the Nigerian market a WiFi version of the Professional Series Smart Phone, PS 185Y and PS 212Y respectively that come with WiFi embedded features.

The Executive Governor of Oyo State, Chief Alao Akala, last week expressed gratitude at Etisalat, for extending its services to the ancient town and pledged that the state government would assist in dealing with any challenges the operator may encounter in its roll-out programme in the state.

World leading man ufacturer of mobile phones, Nokia last week opened an experience centre in Nigeria.The new centre, first of its kind in Nigeria is located along Simbiat Abiola Road, Ikeja and is aimed offering customers the opportunity of getting first hand experience on the array of Nokia mobile phones before proceeding make their purchase from the retail dealer outlets.

Ordinarily, the worlds of a medical doctor, brick layer and an Okada rider, particularly in Nigeria, are poles apart. If anything, it is the Okada rider and the bricklayer that should be sharing fences, the medical doctor is way out of their league.

While restating its resolve to ban visa applicants with fraudulent documents for 10 years , there seems to be tough days ahead for visa applicants with fake documents as the British Commission in Nigeria has supported Nigerian Police with fraud document detection machine to tackle fraud in visa application process.

Momentum is gathering for the IT Edge West Africa Convergence Forum 2009 holding in Abuja in November with more than 450 registrations recorded online at the official website of the event. Forum’s registration formally commenced online last week in line with the tradition started in 2007 by organizers of the convergence Forum, Knowledge Media International (KMI) Limited, publishers of IT Edge magazine published in English and French languages.

THE 2009 faculty day lecture of National Post Graduate Medical College of Nigeria has ended with emphasis on federal government to digitalize all tertiary hospitals in the country.

The American Powers Conversion, ( APC) has introduced an online calculator that supports virtual environment with optimized power usage effectiveness.

The Information Technology Association of Nigeria, (ITAN) in collaboration with the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA), the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Kano State Government through the Office of the Hon. Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr Bashir Galadanci, will next week in Kano hold a one day IT Public-Private Forum with the theme “Plucking the Low Hanging Fruits”.

It was a day of joy and endless celebration, penultimate week, when hundreds of subscribers converged at the Indoor Hall of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium in Enugu for the Etisalat’s “One9ja Million Dollar Game Show” Enugu Region promotional draw.

As part of its commitment to bridging the gap in the mobile device manufacturing space in Africa by delivering unique products that are higher in quality comparable with the best in the world, the latest entrant into the Nigerian Information Communications Technology market, Anabel, has introduced into the Nigerian market a digital media device.

One of the leading elecommunica-tions services provider, Suburban West Africa has entered into partnership with Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) India, for process transformation, next generation operational systems support (NG OSS) and network support services.

The tripartite partnership of Topmost international, IT Enterprise _ Microsoft and New Horizons has yet again produced 2 young MCPs within a period of one year of ICT training integration in the school.

As Lagos State government explores the advantages of emerging technologies to assume the status of a Mega City through automation, the state commissioner for science and technology, Dr. Kadri Hamzat, in this interview with Emmanuel Elebeke , speaks on how automation has enhanced governance in the state, boosted the state internal generated revenue, what his ministry is doing to achieve 100 percent automation, collocation, job creation and state of Information and Communications Technology in school curriculum, among others.