Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Mr. Peter Igoh, at the weekend joined the concerted efforts of the Commission to ensure that phone subscribers register their SIM cards before the expiration of the deadline on nationwide SIM Card registration on September 28, 2011.

In a bid to provide customers discounts on e-payment services, eTranzact International Plc has partnered with Bookhotelabroad.com, a leading provider of hotel accommodation and services worldwide from Nigeria to offer discounts on reservations booking services locally and globally.

Sequel to the renewed drive by Nigeria to rank among the top twenty economies in the world by 2020, e-business solution experts have declared that a technology driven economy will aid the efforts of the Federal Government in achieving this goal.

LAST week, shape of the newly-created Ministry of Communications and Technology became clearer. The minister, Mrs Omobola Johnson announced during a visit to NigComSat that agencies under her ministry would include Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited which has been in the Ministry of Science and Technology, Galaxy Backbone, Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), Nigeria Communications Commission, and the National Information Technology Development Agency of Nigeria (NITDA).

Research In Motion RIM; makers of the Blackberry range of smart phones has through it’s regional director- east, central and west Africa Mr. Waldi Wepener announce to ICT journalists in Lagos that the company as part of attempts to fully have the company and phones more localised in the country intends to work closely with Nigerian software developers.

Leading chip maker, Intel Corporation said it has perfected plans to invest $30 million to strengthen it cloud and embedded computing research in five years.

Falebita Omoniyi is the Executive Director of Track and Shield Ltd., an Abuja-based Infotech service company which has just introduced a new product that has the ability to eliminate the theft of smart phones in the country. In this interview, he explains how the device works.

Non-passage of the anti-cyber crime legislation by law makers has again attracted condemnations among stakeholders in the Nigerian ICT sector even as Nigeria was 3rd in a recent report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center which tracks the prevalence of cybercrime globally.

One of the global leaders in flat screen television, semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies, Samsung Electronics West Africa last week in Lagos launched Samsung Smart TV, a new line of Full HD 3D televisions, integrated with the internet and Web 2.0 features.

Despite plans to relocate Computer Village where ICT products are sold to another place including Ogun State and Kotangowa along Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway respectively, more vendors are still jostling for space.