*164 million phones connected, 119m active
If you are reading this and you have not registered your phone line(s), it may just be almost late. In fact, you need not wonder why you may neither receive nor complete any calls from today.

If the rumours were anything to go by, it should have happened yesterday. From yesterday, June 27, Iphone and Android users should have been able to download the Blackberry messenger service on their phones. But it did not happen. Blackberry and Iphone users are still keeping their fingers crossed for that digital revolution.

Global software giant, Microsoft has announced the availability of Office 365 in nine new territories across the African continent. The entire suite of Office 365 packages is now also available in Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mauritius, Rwanda, Senegal and Zimbabwe.

In line with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cashless policy, Kaymu.com.ng, one of Nigeria’s fastest growing online marketplace has introduced an e-transaction payment service called SafePay. This, it said is geared at making online transactions safe and easy.

•New attacking method wreaks havoc •Why data protection law is imminent in Nigeria…
All through the world, from Asia to Europe, America to Africa, cyber espionage seems to be a common enemy at the moment. This is largely because the art of warfare is gradually shifting from physical to virtual. Heavy military presence and sophisticated war weapons are shrinking, melting into a small room with few Personal Computers and a few frail-looking youths behind them.