A downward plunge in the prices of laptop that has been witnessed since the beginning of the year and which ran on for five months has eventually stopped.

Roaming services among Commonwealth countries will now be affordable as the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization, ( CTO) ventures at their inaugural meeting held recently in the United Kingdom endorsed the launch of a low-cost `borderless Commonwealth’ mobile data roaming service for its member countries and beyond.

The Minister of Communication and Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has thumbed up for the nation’s telecommunications industry, saying that the sector, in just ten years, has exceeded the contribution of manufacturing, banking and solid minerals put together with a total contribution of 8.2% to the nation’s gross domestic product.

Electronic payment system is a relatively new phenomenon in Nigeria. Today, majority of transactions in the country are done with cash as a result of the fact that cash remains the preferred medium for payment despite the rapid penetration of ICT in the last decade, and government policies in this direction.

ATCON President, Mr. Tit Omo-Ettu, has said lack of retailer chain in the distribution of available broadband infrastructure in the country is responsible for low access to broad band, despite the 75% drop in price.

Basking from the euphoria of a 10 years celebration of GSM activities in the country, MTN Nigeria, has restated commitment to contributing to the next phase of growth in the Nigerian economy.

Chief Executive Officer of Starcomms Plc, Mr Logan Pather, stunned his listeners last week when he hinted that the Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM, and Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA, the two telecommunication technologies presently operated by telecommunications operators in Nigeria would be phased out in the next few years.

On Tuesday August 2nd, 2011, the name Desiree Chidera Nwadike was announced in far away San Diego, as one of the top four finalists to have excelled at the 2011 Certiport Worldwide Competition that attracted about 228,000 participants from 57 countries who competed to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products.

Nigeria’s quest to become part of knowledge society is attracting global attention as the immediate past president of the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) and Chief Executive Officer of PiNet Informatics, Mr. Lanre Ajayi, has been nominated into the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) council of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The National Software Policy Review Committee, (NSPC) will this week submit the draft copy of the National Software Policy to the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) for review by the governing board of the regulatory authority, Chairman of the National Software Policy Committee, (NSPC) Professor Wole Akinyokun has said.