What is Java? If you have been hearing the buzz of this technology and wondering what its all about, Java can be used to describe the Java programming language as well as the Java Platform. As a Programming language it is easy to use, a pace-setter (infact C-sharp was modelled after it.),and can be…
DR ERNEST NDUKWE, SAM AMUKA, PAT UTOMI, JUBRIL MARTINS-KUYE, BANIGO, JIM OVIA, ABATI, LEO STAN, MADUKA, OKOIGUN FOR UWAJE’s BOOK LAUNCH The Oracle Speaks, as the long awaited book “e-Knowledge – Time is Running Out” is launched! All roads lead to the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs next week Tuesday, March 30, 2010 to receive…
Nigeria, in coming months will join the likes of Kenya where Mobile Money is changing the way people access financial services. More than 8 million people are actively served by the MPESA MMT System in Kenya alone and 15 percent of the GDP passes through the system.With this great opportunity exit in Mobile Money…
This is an era of knowledge –based economy; the Internet has become a veritable tool for business, communication and social empowerment. Nigerians when it comes to Internet are known as people that use the Internet for fraudulent purposes, hence the name Nigerian scam.
“Digital inclusion brings about a level playing field. It means that the little girl in a village in Nigeria can get information for her research project as a little girl in Washington or China.”- Professor Turner Isoun. Former Minister of Science and Technology The term digital divide according to Wikipedia refers to the gap…
Newton’s First Law of Motion states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object at motion tends to stay in motion until acted upon by an external force. This is true of careers as well, including yours. Where do you want your IT career to be in one year? Do…
Telecommunications and banking in any economy can be likened to siamese twins. This is because there is a symbiotic, interdependent and self-reinforcing relationship between both sectors as they individually and jointly stimulate as well drive, the economy. So when global telecom players tried to convince us of their immunity, given what we knew was going…
As 2010 is just around the corner with great opportunities embedded in renewed challenges, financial and business experts all over the world predict a slow recovery for businesses from recession, which means the way business will be done this time will have to change for effective and quick recovery from the economic meltdown For Nigeria,…
Africa is leading the world in Mobile commerce and payment with active deployments all across the continent. M-PESA is now referred to as the most successful of all with more than 7 million subscribers in Kenya alone. Many look alike deployments are either in active roll outs or in the offing.
I do find the feature in Chrome of it launching each tab in a separate process to be nifty, but how often does Firefox crash? How often do people surf processor intensive/memory intensive web sites? Not very often-that single cool feature is not enough to make people fall in love with Chrome. I used Opera…
A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.
Every device that connects to the Internet needs an address. But those addresses are rapidly being depleted. As unlikely as that may seem, the system put in place in 1977 assumed that four billion separate addresses on the network would be more than sufficient.
TECHNICAL, LEGAL, AND OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES We have entered the Information Age, where information technologies have been integrated into virtually every aspect of business and society. This integration is posing new challenges for all of us in law enforcement. Today, there are critical challenges, seeing computers being used for criminal behavior in three major ways. …
The name Tim Berners-Lee may not ring a bell to the casual internet user neither will the famous quote by one of mankind’s most famous innovators describing the internet “turning point in societal evolution depends not only on the technology but also how we use it.” Furthermore, “the web gives us lots more choices about…
2.2 CATEGORIES OF CYBER THREATS The following are some of the categories of cyber threats that we confront today include, but not limited to: Insiders, Hackers (or “crackers”), “Hacktivism.” Or Political Hacking, Criminal Groups, The Phonemasters’, Internet Fraud, Foreign intelligence services. Information Warfare, Virus Writers, Internet Fraud, Identity Theft, Child Pornography, Terrorists Etc.
The“Bermuda Declaration” for the ICT sector ____ “As we are all witnessing the world is going through a revolution driven by IT. Business, government, education, the media – all are being transformed by the Internet, wireless telephone, access to powerful yet inexpensive computing technology, cable and satellite television, and other elements of the new…
The Global Public Policy Summit (GPPS) 2009 ended at Fairmont Southampton yesterday and was hailed as a great success by attendees who came to Bermuda from over 25 countries. GPPS 2009, a flagship event of the World Information Technology And Services Alliance (WITSA), focused on business technology as an enabler in world economies and featured…
1.2 The New Creative Class The New creative class is like the Managerial Class of the 1950s, they are the norm-setting class of the present era – applying and using technology. The growth of the Internet’s now most-infamous component, the World Wide Web, has been even more spectacular. With more than 700 million…
ComBIT Africa Expo is a product of strategic re-branding of NICOMM Exhibitions & Conferences organised by our Association since 1995. The event has been adjudged the biggest ICT expo in Nigeria and West Africa and is currently attracting ICT trade missions from United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong, China, India, Israel, Korea, Dubai, Taiwan, Canada,…
As the global demand for energy sours, scientists have stepped up their quest to find sustainable and practical solutions to the problem. Other factors such as climate change, high oil prices and demands for CO2-neutral energy production have all lent credence to these calls, hence the renewed interest in renewable energy technologies.
In 1982 and 1983, the first desktop computers began to appear, many were equipped with operating system called Berkeley UNIX which includes Network Software – which allows relatively easy connection to the Internet. The personal computer revolution continued through the eighties, making access to computer…
Google is a double edge sword and you can use it either ways. if you choose to be a bad person then Google will be very useful to you , it can sometimes be a hackers best friend. You will be surprise on the amount of restricted info available and open via Google, by using…
If you have had any problem making payment online as a Nigerian or being branded as a scammer before, then you will appreciate this level of challenge we face online as Nigerians. The recent ‘malicious playstation3 commercial’ on the Internet is regrettable, I am happy the step government and other concerned individuals are taking to…
Not many people seem to know how to use Google, or any search engine, effectively. Most browsers don’t know 10 percent of the facilities in Google search engine, they just type what they want in the search bar and there they go. Once you figure out the best ways to use Google, it will be…
6.The Law of Advertising-First publicize your business, then advertise it both online and offline. Your business dies without advertisement. First seek ways to publicize your online business through the methods of driving traffic to your website, let people tell others about your business. Give out e-books, softwares, business cards, embed your business contact in them.
4.0 How do we recover faster and build a foundation for long-term stability? Many economists say that the standard Keynesian macroeconomic prescription is to stimulate the economy by increasing borrowing, reducing interest rates, lowering taxes and raising spending on public works such as infrastructure. These measures are exactly what the bailout plan and stimulus packages…
The basic cornerstone of good governance are quality of service, quick response mechanism and above all, accountable and transparent process mechanism but the existing systems does not reflect any of these in any of its activities across all sectors and arm of government in Africa.
Presentation at IT Public Private Forum Kano by Dr Jimson Olufuye, President, Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria (ITAN) on 29.09.09 Introduction There is no doubt that transformed leadership is what matters most in the quest for national development in the contemporary world of today. There is no magic to it. Leadership requires deft and…
What is Facebook? How did it come about? Why is so hugely popular? What are the merits and demerits of using it? These pertinent queries will be explored by this piece and proffer reasons as to why Facebook has become the “in-thing” in the world today.
A few years ago, I would have scribbled a few lines of text before putting together anything longer than one paragraph. But things have changed: for most people, it’s now directly from the brain to the keyboard – with immense support from the backspace key and other text editing functions such as Cut and Paste…