AS Nigeria’s golden jubilee anniversary celebrations draw nearer, Pay TV Company, HiTV, has announced a slash in the prices of acquiring its decoder systems.

Second National Operator, Globacom, last week rounded off its recharge and win consumer reward package tagged 30 cars in 30 days promo and ended up empowering another batch of 1,755 lucky subscribers on its network.

A little over a fortnight ago, a stakeholders’ forum on Broadband for Nigeria (BB4NG) was held in Abuja. It was an event in which almost all the identified stakeholder groups were represented, specifically the consumer advocacy groups; telephone operators; academia; consultants; international agencies and the Federal Government.

Stakeholders in the Ghanaian ICT industry gathered recently at the 5th annual Connecting Rural Communities 2010 conference in Accra, Ghana discussing among other things how best to explore potential solutions for bridging the digital divide in Africa.

An American researcher and fellow at the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Ethan Zuckerman has suggested to an assembly of ICT professionals and film makers in Lagos that digital watermarks written into their films and other digital media materials may be the final solution to kicking piracy out of the country.

Inspire soft limited; a leading email servicing company in the country will soon launch an indigenous email site called 9jamail.com Vangaurd cyberLIFE has learnt.

Frontliners in Uninterruptible Power Supply, (UPS) in the Computer Village Ikeja, Tripplesea Limited has assured its growing customers on one-year warranty package on any of its products including inverter batteries, Bluegate Online UPS which have continued to attract patronage from the Nigerian IT market.

Today’s world which figuratively is cruising on the information super high way is indeed a throw back from the past. The history of civilization is strewn in many epochs that have come to redefine modern existence.

While calling for global appeal for contributions to assist the flood affected victims in Pakistan, the ITU Secretary-General, Dr. Hamadoun Touré has issued a global appeal for contributions to assist the ITU’s emergency telecommunications team work with the Government of Pakistan towards rehabilitating the telecommunication infrastructure, which has been rendered inoperative in many parts of the country.

There appears to be dawn of a new era in the Nigerian ICT sector as the Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria, ITAN in collaboration with the Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) have formed an alliance to share information for the overall benefit of the industry and the Nigerian society.