Despite legislation and ongoing anti-piracy campaigns, there has been growing concern by the software giant, Microsoft on the dangers of using fake product even as majority of consumers still have challenge of distinguishing genuine product from counterfeits.

After surviving a routing bout with the National Assembly over its N6.1b budget for SIM card registration, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has taken a first short at the registration.

Following lapses in the adopted processes for the registration of voters, the umbrella body representing all IT professionals in Nigeria, the Nigeria Computer Society, (NCS) has slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) for non-inclusion of the nation’s IT professionals in a matter that borders heavily on professionalism, saying that Nigeria may not achieve best practice in the 2011 elections if the lapses, especially on software were not redressed.

Frontline Internet and communications service provider, Internet Solutions, last week announced that it has invested well over $11m in the Nigeria ICT sector, even as it still plans more massive investments to gain the heart of the market.

With analog systems, these additional security features are not put in place. The cabling can be tapped and erroneous video material can be fed into the wire or recorded off of it at will without raising any intrusion alarms. Compared to analog systems, IP systems are much more difficult to compromise, as encryption requires two nodes that agree on exactly what is being sent and received, interruptions to this data stream will automatically trigger alarms and alerts.