As more bombings go on nationwide, and in the aftermath of last week’s suicide bombing of the Nigeria Police Force headquarter in Abuja, the Executive Chairman, Technology Development Company Limited, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem has said non-adoption of advanced technologies that would enhance effective security surveillance, monitoring and policing across the nation, among others is part of the reason for the growing acts of insecurity in Nigeria.

In an apparent move to confront all forms of security threats in the nations’ economy, Lagos based IT training institute, New Horizons in collaboration with a United States based EC-Council are working in concert to host a one-day Information Technology (IT) security and electronic commerce seminar in Nigeria.

Global networking giant, CISCO network, has predicted that the number of network-connected devices in the world will be more than 15 billion, twice the world’s population, by 2015. In its fifth annual Visual Networking Index, VNI Forecast for 2010-2015 , released recently, the company also said that the total amount of global internet traffic will quadruple by 2015 and reach 966 exabytes per year.

Etisalat Nigeria last week in Lagos announced the launch of a SIM registration promotion tagged 9ja Free Credit Promo specifically designed to reward new and existing customers who register or have registered their SIMs with 30% bonus credit to call any network in Nigeria . The promo which began June 1 offers subscribers on the Etisalat network the opportunity to benefi, regardless of their subscription plan.

As part of its Celebration of Service, designed to allow employees, retirees, clients and business partners, to donate their time and expertise during the company’s Centennial year, IBM last week in Lagos announced that, 300,000 IBMers around the world,