Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems as the theme of the 2011 edition of Imagine Cup holding for the first time in the United States of America, the special advisor to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) Dr. Jeffrey Sachs has told the participating college high school students that they have a home to do in the Millennium Development Goals using Information technology as a tool.

As the 2011 edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup student’s software competition in New York city, the United States of America is drawing to a close, there appears to be growing anxiety and expectations among 21 teams advancing to final round of the completion.

Despite good outing, Nigerian students have failed to scale the hurdle to round two of ongoing Imagine Cup 2011 in the software design category.

Eight African countries including Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda are currently flying African flags at the ongoing Microsoft Imagine Cup, the wouldc’s premier students technology competition holding in New York, the Unted States of America.

While most talented global students gather for the 2011 Imagine Cup series in New York, the United States of America, the Chief Executive Officer of the global software giant, Steve Ballmer has challenged over 400 software incubators currently participating in the competition to solve the Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) including poverty, education, disease, environmental sustainability among others with technology.

As over 120 software solutions battle to win people choice award through online voting system, Medicare software application designed by four students from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA) flying Nigerian flag at the ongoing 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup students technology contest holding in New York, the United States of America, has been ranked 4th position globally.

Alcatel_Lucent has unlocked the potential for radical new Internet applications and services with a technology seen as the key to greater capacity, faster connections and reduced congestion on the web.

Determined to bridge the existing gap between mobile phone users, dealers, brand owners and telecom operators in the country, an event manager and trade promotion firm, Kristal Stone Promotion company says all is now set for its first mobile phone fair today in Lagos.

The heavy rains that has been witnessed in the past few weeks have forced business inside the nation’s largest ICT market; the Computer Village to grind literally to a halt.

The International Business Machine, (IBM) recently partnered with Nigeria’s foremost ICT solutions provider, Net Solutions Limited in a one day seminar on smarter business infrastructure for its various customers.