Network and communication company, Cisco last week announced new innovations across its Unified Computing System to deliver a third-generation fabric computing platform that will address the virtualization and cloud computing challenges in work places, and helps customers respond rapidly to changing business needs, scale their data centers, and accelerate transition to virtualization and cloud computing.

Unknown to many, the National Information Technology Development Agency ( NITDA) has made remarkable strides in driving its mandate and pushing the frontiers of information technology development in Nigeria in the past ten years.

One of the world’s leading payment solution providers, Visa has partnered with Diamond Bank Nigeria PLC to launch a premium card service to provide customers with increased credit card capabilities, convenience and rewards.

With not less than 2000 developers that gathered Thursday at the civic centre Lagos for the start of Google’s third web and mobile conference , the search engine giant has launched the Google trader and Gmail Chat SMS that allow users to use Gmail chat to communicate between all mobile phones and platforms, even if they are offline or have an SMS and voice only phone.

LAST Friday in Lagos when stakeholders in the Nigerian ICT sector gathered to discuss the draft national ICT policy, leading voices contended that except issues like local content, open source software, full engagement of industry players, youths, women among others were included, the policy, as drafted may not be of much use in the bid to transform into a digital and knowledge based economy.