More than seventy entrepreneurial mobile developers from the Nigerian developer community attended the BlackBerry10 Mini Jam developer event in Lagos recently at the CcHub in Sabo, Yaba, showing a high level of interest in designing apps for the forth coming BlackBerry10 platform. To date, RIM has held BlackBerry 10 developer events in cities across North…
Paper delivered by Dr. Olatunde Adekola,Senior Education Specialist, World Bank at EduNet2012 Fellow colleagues, friends and educators, Gentlemen of the press, Distinguish Ladies and gentlemen. … I am very pleased to be in your midst and really appreciate your invitation; it is always a wonderful experience to be among friends, distinguished colleagues and of course,…
Prowork– an innovative idea co-founded by Francis Onwumere of Digital Craft Studios, makes team collaboration on projects easy. This is one of the impressive Startups that solve real problems in work place, Interestingly, this idea has also been nominated for Meffys Award We wish Francis and his team the best!
Mobile advertising network, Twinpine announced it has been nominated for a 2012 Meffys award. The Meffys are amongst the most coveted awards in the mobile industry, recognising brands, start-ups and individuals who have helped shape the mobile content and commerce industry. Twinpine, which this month celebrates the end of its first commercial year, is shortlisted…
I had a Ghanaian teacher during my secondary school days that taught me that education is simply the training of a child to be able to live and to be lived with. Is it this simple? Yes, education is all about interactivity but people make it unnecessarily complex. Learning looks hard, but it can…
Welcome Address by Kenneth Omeruo, MD Emerging Media, Publishers of TechTrends (www.techtrendsng.com) at the 3rd Education Network Conference 2012(Edunet2012)on July 31st,2012 at Golden Gate, Restaurant, Ikoyi ,Lagos-Nigeria. Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Academics, Captains of ICT industry, the media, Students, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of Emerging Media, the organizers of EduNet Conference, I have the honor…
Hey Nigerian developers,BlackBerry is pleased to invite you to be part of the BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam in Lagos on August 14th.BlackBerry 10 mini Jam is a full-day event dedicated to providing the developer community in Nigeria with insights on the BlackBerry 10 platform; its strengths, the vision, and how developers can make apps that…
Read part1 and 2 of the article. http://techtrendsng.com/internet-bandwidth-key-national-developmentpart1/ http://techtrendsng.com/internet-bandwidth-key-national-development-part-2/ According to Wikipedia, access to the Internet grew from an estimated 10 million people in 1993, to almost 40 million in 1995, to 670 million in 2002, and to 2.45 billion in 2011. With market saturation the phase of rapid growth is ending in…
The Mobile advertising network- Twinpine today celebrates the end of its first commercial year and has marked the occasion by announcing some company highlights for the past 12 months. At launch, the company set a target of reaching 100 million monthly impressions within a year. It has far surpassed this, now handling over 500 million…
Core Group Africa-authorised distributor for Apple in Africa, announced that the new iPad will officially be available in Nigeria from today. Their statement reads: We are thrilled to announce the official launch of the new iPad in Nigeria. You are now able to purchase official iPad products in Nigeria with the peace of mind that…
Oracle recently announced a new agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Skire, , a leading provider of capital program and facilities management management applications available both in the cloud and on-premise. This report was made available to us by Claire Alexander, PR manager for Africa. Skire’s software provides a complete set of…
From Cyberschuulnews and industry news (ATCONnews) this week, Main One Cable, Nigeria’s leading submarine cable earlier in the week launched a Global Video Connect, a product that will enable the distribution of live video content worldwide as well as enhance international media reach into key emerging regions. MainOne in partnership with Tata Communications connects customers…
This is the era of knowledge –based economy. The new information and communication technologies (NICT) especially the Internet has become a veritable tool for learning, research, business development and growth, mass communication, social empowerment for social changes. With the Higher education in developed world playing key roles in research of these new technologies and how…
Reading through this report titled Magic Quadrant for CRM Multichannel Campaign Management, Gartner Inc-a leading analyst firm has placed Oracle’s Siebel CRM in the Leaders Quadrant for 2012. Gartner Magic Quadrants position vendors within a particular market segment based on completeness of vision and ability to execute on that vision. According to Gartner, “Leaders consistently…
As the closing date for entries for 2012 Google Apps Developer Challenge draws near,it becomes necessary to remind our developers to be part of this great opportunity. Developers in 6 regions across the world will win prizes that include Chromebooks and up to $20,000 USD . Innovations from students and female developers will be given…
The internet is a packet switched network. In a lay man’s language it means if you are sending a picture from one system to the other via the Internet, the picture will burst keeping in mind that every piece will be numbered before leaving the sending computer. When the picture arrives at the receiving computer,…
Just recently the Information Technology Unit (lNTECU) of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife established a Research and Education Network (REN) which would provide data communication networks and services to educational institutions in Osun State. At a well attended ceremony which had the Vice-Chancellors of Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Bamitale Omole, and Osun State University, Professor Sola…
Beni American University, an international and online based institution focused on giving Nigerians and indeed Africans affordable and convenient higher education, is set to take off officially in Nigeria at the EduNet Africa Conference 2012 on the 31st of July, 2012 at the Golden Gate restaurant, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. In a chat with the President…
Am sure someone can benefit from this, a recent funding round is on for projects that explore the intersect of the internet and public policy or law;InternetNZ is offering $100,000 for policy and legal-related research projects, with a funding cap of $20,000 per project. Read all about it here
As research plays keep role in technology development around the world, with the higher education community pioneering such feat, Nigeria institutions of higher learning are ready to join the league of great research institutions in the world through a research newtwork. Recently the National Universities Commission through Dr Joshua Atah, the project coordinator, gave a…
Three years ago when I ask people in my neighborhood in Nigeria how often they connect to the Internet, most replies I got from people were: ‘once a month’, and ‘twice a month’. These days when I ask the same question I get quite a stunning answer: “I am permanently online”. Thanks to the emergence…
Are you a young person up to 30 years of age? Are you involved in a youth initiative producing outstanding digital content towards achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals? Then make sure to submit your project for the next edition of the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA)! In 2012 the World Summit Youth Award selects…
Even as the aviation industry in Nigeria is going through challenging times, Aero, one of the leading innovative airline in West Africa has announced the addition of Quickteller mobile platform as another online payment channel for her passengers. This service enables customers make payment for tickets on Quickteller mobile site from their mobile phones. The…
Intel Corporation and Changemakers recently launched She Will Innovate: Technology Solutions Enriching the Lives of Girls. This challenge is designed to promote information and communication technology solutions that improve the lives of girls and women. It is looking for programs that break down barriers to ICT access, ideas that accelerate digital literacy, and projects…
A recent report from Symantec Corporation made available to us by JSP Communications, has revealed that information costs businesses worldwide $1.1 trillion annually, according to its first ever State of Information Survey. From confidential customer information, to intellectual property, to financial transactions, organizations possess massive amounts of information that not only enable them to…
The Nigerian ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions is collaborating with the Internet eXchange Point of Nigeria towards enabling inter-network connections between Higher Education Institutions in Nigeria and reducing their present cost of internet bandwidth This collaboration, consummated on April 20, this year through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), also seeks to establish the Research and…
With few weeks into the 2012 EduNet conference, we bring to you what the media are saying about the conference. The conference date: 31st July Venue: Golden Gate Restaurant, Ikoyi Theme: Research and Education Networks: Opportunities and Challenges. Papers and discussions will be on: 1. Broadband and connectivity issues 2. How to build Quality…
The International security conference known as Africa Forum on Business and Security will still hold in September in Nairobi, Kenya, despite the Nairobi helicopter crash that killed Kenya’s security minister, his deputy, two bodyguards and two pilots. Internal Security Minister George Saitoti, a mathematics professor and former vice-president of Kenya, was pursuing offensives…
Adeyemi Ajao , a Nigerian, is the co-founder of Identified.com, a way for professionals to manage their identities on the Internet. Prior to co-founding Identified, Adeyemi founded Tuenti.com and JobandTalent.com, the largest social networks and executive job sites, respectively, in Spain. Read his full interview with Sramana Mitra
Wake-Up, Wake-Up, Wake-Up! The Book of Isaiah and Revelation have said enough on apathy and docility, and there may be nothing more to say. But how long will Nigeria harbor and ignorantly elude the dreaded software catastrophe that has stated and continues to hunt all nations of the world? At last, one of the most…