While the menace of advanced fee fraud popularly known as 419 and spam mails remain a challenge to governments of the world, latest Microsoft’s Security Intelligence report, Volume 9, has revealed that advance fee fraud mails accounted for 8.6 percent of the spam messages blocked by Microsoft’s Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) in the second quarter of 2010 alone.

After hitting it big in 2007 as one of the world’s topmost mobile handset manufacturers, Sony Ericsson’s fortunes began to dwindle and by 2009 it was almost out of the chart. However, in 2010, the company has refused to be bogged down by that misfortune but admitted that though those periods were trying times, they also helped in strengthening its operations to what it has become at the moment.

As the world gradually turns to Digital broadcasting to bring more entertainment into television viewing, Multichoice Africa, through its pay television arm, M-net has empowered about sixty homes in the lowly Soweto Suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa, equipping them with DVB – Terrestrial Second Generation, also known as DVB-T2, TV platform.

It was mixed fortunes for Alaba International market last weekend when the market was recognized with the prestigious The Eko Awards in the commerce and industry category.

APC by Schneider Electric, a global player in integrated critical power and cooling services, has announced a new version of InfraStruxure management software, a core feature of APC’s InfraStruxure architecture, which provides an open, vendor neutral management platform for data centre physical infrastructure.