Black Friday: Outdated online listings may undermine retailers — Google
By Juliet Umeh Nigerian retailers preparing for Black Friday may lose ready-to-buy customers if their Google listings carry outdated opening hours, unanswered phone numbers or old product photographs. Google’s Director for East and West Africa, Olumide Balogun, gave the warning as Nigeria prepare for Black Friday and December festive shopping season. Black Friday falls on […]
Political instability slows African ICT growth, Leo-Stan tells Harvard business school
Chairman Zinox Technologies Limited, Mr Leo Stan Ekeh, last week told a gathering of business moguls at the 13th Annual Africa Business Conference in the Harvard Business School, that Politics is often unpredictable in Africa and the polity is neither guided by ideologies or time tested traditions
Stakeholders worry over poor patronage of indigenous software
By the time the 2011 Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Presidential Dinner held in Lagos last week Friday was drawing to a close
Don’t risk losing internet governance chance, warns ICC
The International Chamber of Commerce, ICC) Business Action to support the Information Society (BASIS) initiative has reaffirmed its support for the unique Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and urged that participation remains open to all and that discussions on Internet policy take development issues into consideration
Nokia goes tough on counterfeits , outlines plans for market lead in smart phone
The Finish Frontline mobile phone provider, Nokia has said that it would work with the local authorities in the Nigerian market to stamp out to the barest minimum all forms of counterfeiting, even as it outlined plans to be the market leader in smartphone segment which is now becoming the toast of many consumers around the world
Battle over mobile operating systems opens at Mobile World Congress
By the time the marriage between Finish phone maker, Nokia and the global software giant , Microsoft regarding windows 7 operating systems platform was announced at the just concluded 2011 edition of Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain, it was clear that the battle for mobile ecosystem in Windows 7 operating system platform among operators has just begun, a market scenario that is expected to bring cost of the product down.
