Basking from the euphoria of a seemingly unshakeable market leadership in global mobile phone sales, mobile phone manufacturers, Nokia, is perhaps no longer looking at technology as a marketing tool but a strategy to achieve a seemingly three-pronged ideologies to empower the world — Innovation, People and Possibilities.

When the Fashola led administration of the Lagos state government, some months ago embarked on a massive rehabilitation of public schools, many people thought it was a mere rehabilitation scheme aimed at giving a new facelift to the affected schools.

Intel Corporation, last week introduced its all new 2010 core family of processors. The products are said to be delivering unprecedented integration and smart performance, including Intel Turbo Boost Technology for laptops, desktops and embedded devices.

Viewers of the popular Zain Africa Challenge, a television (TV) show sponsored by Zain Mobile were last week rewarded with gift items worth thousands of naira by the GSM giant.

Records and Information Management Awareness Foundation (RIMA Foundation) is set to hold its annual
workshop, exhibition and awards tagged Records and Information Management Awareness Workshop, Awards and Exposition (RIMAW & RIMA Awards 2010).

Professor Dora Akunyili, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Communications, seemed a lone voice in the wilderness when she initiated the project of re-branding Nigeria. The question which the minister herself struggled hard but could not convince anybody was how a new wine will test in an old can.

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) has said that the Rt Hon Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the UK, will deliver the keynote address at the Cybersecurity Forum 2010 slated to hold next week United Kingdom.

DR Jimson Olufuye presently is the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN). ITAN, as a body, is Nigeria’s representative at the World Information Technology and Services Association (WITSA), a global IT body which held its congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last month.

Concerns are beginning to be raised about the delays in appointment of persons to various critical positions in government. For a nation of over 140 million Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, it cannot be that difficult to identify deserving Nigerians to be appointed to fill these vacancies.

There appears to be growing concern about internet safety even as the prevalence of social networking web sites, online communities, and internet-enabled processes is great news for individual, corporate, and government users. However, increased dependence on the internet for work, life, and play, is exploited daily by those who make the internet unsafe for others.