AS you read this, Nigerian students, along with one of their lecturers are in New York, USA, attending this year’s edition of the Imagine Cup. The Imagine Cup is the software equivalent of the football World Cup, and is the initiative of software giant, Microsoft Corporation.

While the Nigerian IT market continues to be the toast of the international community, India`s leading mobile phone manufacturer, SPICE mobile has partnered Stovex Technologies on mobile phones distribution in Nigeria.

STEVE Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, sponsors of the software contest called Imagine Cup, holding in New York, USA has advised participants at the contest, saying it is ideas that matter.

Twitter developers, Biz Stone, Jason Goldman and Evan Williams have unveiled plans to launch a new startup venture.

Globacom Nigeria has said that its new brand called Glo Zone was created to empower young Nigerian entrepreneurs, create jobs for the teeming youths and bring quality Glo products and services to the door steps of its customers.

While the global community awaits anxiously for winners of the 2011 edition of world’s premier student technology competition, the software giant, Microsoft has disclosed that the Imagine Cup world festival and awards ceremony will be on webcast live tomorrow, July 13, 2011 from the David H. Koch Theatre at Lincoln center in New York.

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.