Microsoft has announced the winners and finalists of the 2011 Microsoft Partner of the year awards and the Microsoft West, East and Central Africa (WECA) partner awards this was made known at the just concluded Microsoft worldwide partner conference 2011, the company’s premier annual event for industry partners held last month in Los Angeles, the United States of America.

Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and the director of marketing for the social network, is leaving to start her own company, Facebook said Wednesday.

OBAFEMI Giwa-Amu is a pioneer of sorts; he is one of the few Nigerians who started a service business whose operations reside strictly in the ICT domain. His firm, Trak-Tag Nigeria Ltd is at the forefront of the vehicle tracking business in Nigeria, having initially spent millions of dollars digitalizing Nigeria’s maps, which then became his business infrastructure.

In apparent response to the new spirit of the minister of education on entrepreneurship, world leading driving force in the global technology revolution, Intel Corporation last week in collaboration with the Lagos state government and the Rotary club of Ikeja, commissioned a model Intel Teach and 1:1 learning school in Ikeja High School, GRA Ikeja, Lagos.

In its quest to use quality technical and engineering education to build human capacity in the emerging Information and Communications Technology sector, Kits Technologies said it has started offering relevant ICT industry technology-focused technical trainings.

IT is heartwarming to note that while governments continue to fiddle about the application of ICT in security, individuals and institutions are forging ahead by adopting digital solutions to security.

The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) has endorsed Samsung Solar-Powered Netebook as a strategic instrument for developing the Nigerian knowledge economy.

While bowing out as President of the Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS) at its annual general meeting in Abuja last week, Professor Charles Uwadia has said that Vision 20-2020 imperatives may not be realised unless the youths were empowered with IT tools for challenges ahead.

Visafone Communications Limited recently got a major boost with the signing of sales promotion agreement with Panasonic.

Law enforcement agencies in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard (HP) Nigeria have seized no fewer than 6,500 fake HP printing suppliers in a coordinated raid operation carried out recently in the Nigerian market.