You’ve most likely heard that since pop singer Goldie Harvey passed away, someone has been using her twitter handle. Everyone seemed comfortable when her ‘admin’ tweeted posts about Goldie’s burial arrangements. But when the tides turned barely three weeks after her death and someone with access to her account saw it as a good platform to advertise Nigerian films and movie, it freaked people out. So everyone knows Goldie is dead, and the massive outcry is against the insensitivity of it all. But, what about you?

While software piracy continues to cause more economic harm than good, new study commissioned by Microsoft and Corp and conducted by IDC has revealed that consumers will spend 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion identifying, repairing and recovering from the impact of malware, while global enterprises will spend $114 billion to deal with the impact of a malware-induced cyber attack.

Smarting from his exploits at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, has declared that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, would enjoy up to 15 percent increase from ICT contributions in 2015.

THE Federal Government has been called upon, as a matter of urgent national importance, to initiate a policy of subsidy of computer ownership for students at various levels of education in the country.

THE National Identity Management Commission NIMC is gearing up to kick start a data collection exercise which would put the country among the top information managers in the world.