ITC, Internet and Telecom

News : ITC, Internet and Telecom

A few days ago this newspaper ran an editorial deploring the low levels of applying technology to develop our economies and making life easier. (AllAfrica)

Citibank (T) Ltd, the only US bank in the country since 1995 and part of the Citibank East African network, has won the Global Finance best corporate and institutional internet bank award for 2008. (AllAfrica)

Afenifere, the apex pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organization, has condemned the power generation deal entered into with the German firm, Siemens, by the Federal Government, even as a member of the House of Representatives criticized president Umaru Yar' Adua for the agreement. (AllAfrica)

A new National IT Policy that will reposition Nigeria in the emerging global IT- driven economy is in the offing.This fact emerged when the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs. Grace Ekpiwhre inaugurated the National IT Policy Review Committee yesterday in Abuja. (AllAfrica)

MINISTER of Communication, Mr. John Odey, has urged Zain Nigeria (formerly Celtel) to intensify its rural connection programme, with a view to increasing the rural telecom penetration rate in the country, even as he applauded the company's new brand identity. (AllAfrica)

UNITED States based world leader in silicon innovation, Intel Corporation has announced the availability of the Extensible Host Controller Interface, (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. (AllAfrica)

Vodacom Tanzania has received the superbrands status in East Africa for the year 2007/2008, the company said in a statement yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Quite aware of the crucial role which technological innovation plays in the socio-economic and political advancement of any nation, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has called on education stakeholders to begin an aggressive awareness and campaign towards promoting science and technology education in Nigeria as well as providing the body of think-tanks to supply the necessary intellectual initiatives and other support for government. (AllAfrica)

Member of the House of Representratives representing Kabba/Bunnu/ Ijumu federal constituency in Kogi state , Honourable Dino Melaye , has stated that the decision by the Federal Government to change its position and resume business with Siemens after blacklisting the German firm is a mockery of the campaign against corruption. (AllAfrica)

MTN, uganda telecom (utl) and WARID are engaged in a price war that analysts think will lead some of them into the red and usher in further restructuring of the industry. (AllAfrica)

As e-waste continue to pose health problem to the international communities, especially the third world countries, Greenpeace has called on the world's electronics companies to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their products, saying toxic waste from wealthy nations' gadgets ends up being dumped in poor countries despite laws prohibiting it. (AllAfrica)

Working with about 300 students from the ICT and Languages departments who are well versed with Luganda, it took just two days to get the Mozilla Firefox web page translated into Luganda , writes Rachel Kabejja (AllAfrica)

BARELY two weeks after the launch of Zain Group brand across its Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, the Nigerian operation weekend won two awards at the Nigerian Telecom Awards - 'Best Customer Care Operator' and the Chief Executive, Bayo Ligali named 'CEO of the Year'. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria's representatives to this year's World Cyber Games grand finale scheduled to hold in November in Cologne, Germany are to contest for honours in four of the 14 events at stake. (AllAfrica)

Few months after telephone services were nearly paralysed as a result of a strike by workers of Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL), services may be crippled again today, if MTel management fails to meet the demands of its staff. (AllAfrica)

Kano State Government has approved the sum of N4.7 million to build more schools, in order to decongest its schools. The Ministry of Education has also introduced computer direct assessment of all primary and secondary schools. (AllAfrica)

The import of global satellite communication system, its revival and advancement took the world with a bang, but little did users know that there is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) that emits from the cell or cordless phones, PDA's, Bluetooth headsets. (AllAfrica)

Sokoto State Government has spent a total of N36 million to connect all its 10 science and technical colleges to the Internet, for effective teaching and learning. (AllAfrica)

Mr. Emecheta Ofondu, chief executive officer, Coscharis Technologies spoke to our reporter, Emeka Aginam recently on its latest brand of indigenous computer brand, why current vendors are not meeting market expectations and what government should do to help the industry and a number of other issues in the emergingNigerian local PCs market. Exerpt (AllAfrica)

A licence has been granted to a new indigenous GSM company, which will bring the total number of GSM operators in the country to four. (AllAfrica)

NIGERIA Tele-communications (NITEL) Plc has approved the appointment of Mr Tom Iseghohi as the new chairman of its Board of Directors, even as it ratified the appointments of Mallam Sayyu Dantata and Olorogun O'tega Emerhor, (OON) as directors. (AllAfrica)

Parliament on Monday gave junior ICT Minister John Alintuma Nsambu two weeks to explain reports that he was using his post to promote personal business. (AllAfrica)

The Safaricom refund saga is a total mess. According to the latest statistics from the Central Bank, cheques for a whopping Sh1.67 billion have yet to be refunded. (AllAfrica)

South Sudan is to stop using Uganda's telephone code in October, Parliament has heard. (AllAfrica)

DR. PAA Kwesi Ndoum, the flag bearer of the Convention People's Party (CPP), has reiterated that his party is opposed to the sale of Ghana Telecom (GT) and would do everything possible to reverse the deal when it comes to power. (AllAfrica)

Continental pay television company, MultiChoice, says it is tightening its grip on the domestic market thanks to big international sporting events and reality television shows. (AllAfrica)

The National Environment Management Council (Nemc) has called for suspension of ongoing construction of telecommunication towers which lack in-depth research on health risks they pose to people and the environment. (AllAfrica)

As the shock from the January violence in Kenya subsides, attention has moved back to the staple diet of corruption allegations (sale of the Grand Regency Hotel), poorly executed transactions (Safaricom IPO refunds and Rift Valley Railways) and collapsing infrastructure (roads, power, the Mombasa port). (AllAfrica)

Police and at least one major bank have uncovered a new ATM theft scam after three men were arrested for tampering with a Standard Bank ATM. (AllAfrica)

Gerhard Pieterse, the executive director of Autism Western Cape, has committed himself to voluntary imprisonment as a fund-raising exercise in support of autism. With the goal of reaching R1 000 000 in raised funds, initially, the marketing of Jail4Bail has been much as you would expect: using traditional press releases, and relying on conventional media to spread the word. (AllAfrica)

Sam Wilson is South Africa's first award-winning mobilist with a clear majority: 38.5% of the readers' votes. Wilson's story Prestige Animals kept Novel Idea readers hooked to their phones for their daily updates. (AllAfrica)