In yet another record breaking achievement, Dansol High school, Agidimmgbi, Lagos in partnership with an ICT training institute, New Horizons Systems Solutions Ltd, last week presented two pupils from the Nursery & Primary levels of the School , who become young Microsoft certified professional after passing the Microsoft Professional Examination.

CDMA operator, Starcomms says it is striving hard to make talk cheap and easy between its customers in Nigeria and their loved ones abroad. To ensure that it achieves that mandate, the company recently slashed its international call rate.

While recognizing their innovative technology solutions that address the toughest challenge of the 21st century, global software giant, Microsoft yesterday, at the Opera House and National Theatre of Warsaw, Poland has announced the worldwide finals at the just concluded 2010 edition of Imagine Cup, even as it gives out cash prizes totalling $240,000 across five competition categories and six awards.

WHILE the football World Cup tournament holds in South Africa, another kind of World Cup is holding, but this time in Europe

Minister of Information and Communications, Dr. Dora Akunyiri and the Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi have thrown their weight behind the maiden edition of Information and Communication Technology Exhibition Conference, tagged ITEC Abuja 2010.

Last week, the Digital Bridge Institute; an international centre for communication studies running currently in the country in conjunction with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Georgia Tech University and the MacArthur Foundation presented a 3-day workshop on the Enhancement of Civil Society use of ICTs in Nigeria.

R&D remains the bedrock of any self-reliant national economy. The Agrarian, Industrial and ICT revolutions have all been made possible as a result of progress made in R&D in these three sectors. Advancement in these sectors is one of the indices for assessing the development and competitiveness of national economies.

RayBam ICT Training and Consultancy Institute said it is making thousands of Nigerians computer literates through Information and Communications Technology ‘ICT’ training thereby empowering them to be relevant in the society.

WEB developers and experts in Nigeria who have been monitoring debates traded on the floor of different IT summits held both locally and internationally in recent times in an attempt to finding a lasting solution to the menace posed by cyber criminals have said that by carrying out repeated hack attacks on one’s server system to test for security weaknesses, hackers may be kept at bay

Global hardware makers and printing solution providers, HP has unveiled a new category of web enabled printing solutions designed for the cloud that will, for the first time, allow people to Print from any email device to any new ePrint-enabled printer from anywhere in the world through the new HP ePrint technology ( as well as s tore documents or files in the cloud and print direct when needed.