The challenges facing Public Sector Governance in Nigeria in recent times has been a major cause for concern. To this end, Signal Alliance, one of the leading IT Systems Integration company in Nigeria recently organized a workshop for the Public Sector titled “ Public Sector Finance Management in the 21st Century: Transparency through Technology” and introduced the Globally recognized Serenic Navigator, an award-winning Financial Management Software.   The workshop, held at the Microsoft Nigeria office [...]

Intercellular Nigeria Plc, has held its 3rd Extra Ordinary General Meeting at the Function Room, Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos, on Wednesday the 14th of March 2012. The meeting was to pass a resolution to transfer 70% equity stake held by the Sudatel Group to new investors, Lari Com Investment Company Limited with the aim of positively turning the company around for commercial launch and into profitability.   The Chairman of Lari Com, Mr. Abdel Basit [...]

HP has announced it has delivered an HP AppSystem for the SAP HANA® database and related services to T-Mobile USA, Inc., helping the wireless provider shorten the time required to analyze information from more than one week to less than a day.   T-Mobile, the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG, provides more than 33 million mobile customers with customized wireless plans, depending on smartphone and data needs. It conducts highly targeted customer communications [...]

It’s no longer news that one of the most innovative telecommunications services operators in the late 90s, albeit on the CDMA platform, ZoomMobile has officially wound up. Neither is it still news that of all the CDMA operators that held sway in Nigeria in the same period, only Starcomms (even if barely) is still in operations.     Coming on the heels of such other crashed telcos like Mobitel, Intercellular and Multilinks, the demise of [...]

Airwave, the leading provider of critical voice and data communications to public service organisations in Great Britain, has been invited to give two presentations and participate in panel discussions at the TETRA World Congress (TWC) 2012 taking place in Dubai between 14 and 17 May 2012.   Euros Evans, Airwave CTO will present: ‘Delivering greater capacity to support unplanned major events and incidents while balancing the impact on Airwave spectral efficiency’ on day one of [...]

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), a parastatal of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Communication Technology has concluded plans to host an IT stakeholder workshop for the purpose of fine-tuning draft standards and guidelines for made- in- Nigeria IT hardware products. The workshop which is scheduled for May 15 and 16, 2012 shall hold at the Westown hotel Ikeja  Lagos.   The IT standards retreat is being coordinated on the platform of the National [...]

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), a parastatal of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Communication Technology has concluded plans to host an IT stakeholder workshop for the purpose of fine-tuning draft standards and guidelines for made- in- Nigeria IT hardware products. The workshop which is scheduled for May 15 and 16, 2012 shall hold at the Westown hotel Ikeja  Lagos.   The IT standards retreat is being coordinated on the platform of the National [...]

Dataflex, one of Nigeria’s foremost Information Technology Companies, has in line with deepening its offering in the Information technology space re strategized through the expansion of its solutions offering in the market. The company has in the past, provided well tested Datacenter solutions around power and cooling. Dataflex is currently regarded as one of the top five leading ICT companies in Nigeria, providing Power, Cooling and Hardware solutions to its growing list of customers.   [...]

EMC has unveiled VSPEX, its first reference architecture for building converged infrastructures that integrate storage, server, networking, and virtualization, and claimed it will in no way impact sales of the pre-configured Vblock converged solutions produced by VCE, its joint venture with partner Cisco.   With VSPEX, EMC jumps into a new battle with archrival storage vendor NetApp, whose FlexPod reference architecture has done well against VCE’s Vblocks.   At the same time, the multi-vendor VSPEX [...]

In an attempt to reduce its reliance on third-party processor makers, HTC has reportedly signed a memorandum of cooperation with ST-Ericsson to develop its own mobile chips, following the same route as its rivals Apple and Samsung.   According to a report by the China Times, HTC will develop a dedicated application processor that will be incorporated into its low-end smartphones when production starts next year.   Facing increased competition in the smartphone market as [...]