As part of its ongoing Smart Centre promo, Starcomms, one of the CDMA operators in Nigeria, Starcomms last weekend splashed gift items worth over N25 million on its loyal customers.

Telecom giant, Airtel Nigeria has reiterated its committed to providing quality education to poor children, even as it said that education of less privileged children would result in true freedom to earn, choose and live aright.

A rather unusual but heated debate had erupted during a session at the NITMA awards organised by the Nigeria Computer Society NCS in Lagos recently during which leading stakeholders in the sector and the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN; Dr. Jimson Olufuye had argued vehemently over the proper acronym to call the sector: IT or ICT?

Anything found on a crime scene that has the potential to give a clue to reconstruction is known as evidence. Also know in some quarters as artifact, trace or trail, evidence is anything that can be used to track the cause of crime.

The Ondo State government has signed a school agreement with Microsoft Nigeria to provide the state’s schools with high quality and affordable ICT education.

The Nigeria Computer Society NCS, last week held its National Information Technology Merits awards, NITMA 2010 in Lagos with various IT stakeholders and speakers at the event giving a scorecard of their ratings so far on the development of IT and the IT industry in the country.

While the menace of advanced fee fraud popularly known as 419 and spam mails remain a challenge to governments of the world, latest Microsoft’s Security Intelligence report, Volume 9, has revealed that advance fee fraud mails accounted for 8.6 percent of the spam messages blocked by Microsoft’s Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) in the second quarter of 2010 alone.

After hitting it big in 2007 as one of the world’s topmost mobile handset manufacturers, Sony Ericsson’s fortunes began to dwindle and by 2009 it was almost out of the chart. However, in 2010, the company has refused to be bogged down by that misfortune but admitted that though those periods were trying times, they also helped in strengthening its operations to what it has become at the moment.

As the world gradually turns to Digital broadcasting to bring more entertainment into television viewing, Multichoice Africa, through its pay television arm, M-net has empowered about sixty homes in the lowly Soweto Suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa, equipping them with DVB – Terrestrial Second Generation, also known as DVB-T2, TV platform.

It was mixed fortunes for Alaba International market last weekend when the market was recognized with the prestigious The Eko Awards in the commerce and industry category.