RECENTLY a team of Nigerian app developers, Marvel Web, hoisted Nigeria’s flag in Sweden by emerging winners in a world app contest instituted by renowned telecom equipment manufacturers, Ericsson.
Hi-Tech, recently cornered one of the leaders of the team Mr Toks Ogun, who gave us insight into the preparatory and eventual capture of the contest’s top prize. His account was quite interesting.

Google and Microsoft plan to join Apple in introducing theft-deterring “kill switches” in their smartphone operating systems, as part of an agreement with mayors and police agencies.

While software piracy and related offences are still on the increase causing more economic harm than good despite regulations, panellists at the just concluded Current Issues in Information and Communication Technology conference have called for immediate review of the Nigeria intellectual and trademark laws.

It has been nearly 80 years since the first public demonstration of television took place in a crowded laboratory in London. Since that time television has advanced from blurry black and white pictures to stunning high-definition images with life-like depth, realism, color and resolution. How were these achievements made and how will they affect our technology?

The business of mobiles today is no longer about the name, screen or size. It’s the best of the technology in that device. A customer expects to get real value from the entire ecosystem surrounding the device.

Decision to buy a phone depends on one’s value expectation and proposition the device is able to bring about. It’s either you are deriving first hand information as fast as you want from the device or it’s making your easier one way or the other.