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By Technology Times Staff Reporter Tinapa. October 29, 2012: Several ICT industry decision makers straddling the public and private sectors started converging on the serene Tinapa International Resort yesterday ahead of the annual Institute of Software Professionals of Nigeria (ISPON) National Software Conference and Competition 2012 that kicks off this morning in Cross River [...]
By Bolanle Abbas Lagos. October 2, 2012: The Samsung Galaxy Pocket, an entry-level Smartphone that bundles the affordability edge is the top selling mobile phone handset in Nigeria according to the Technology Times Intelligence Unit that tracked the retail ecosystem to profile the Top 5 Selling Mobile Phones in the country. Nigeria, ranked as [...]
Sylvanus A. Ehikioya (Ph.D), Director, New Media & Information Security, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in the “Broadband Initiatives and Challenges: West Africa Sub-Region As A Case Study” underscores the major influence of Nigeria in driving the next phase of broadband growth across the West African sub-region. According to Ehikioya, “incidentally every growth in Africa [...]
By Technology Times Reporter Lagos. September 15, 2012: Jobberman, the leading job portal in Africa has entered into partnership with Dymore Vision Consulting, one of Africa’s leading digital media and social innovation firms to launch GAPS Academy. With over 3,400 video classes and hundreds of topics, GAPS Academy says it is currently the platform [...]
By Technology Times Lagos. September 9, 2012: CloseoutExplosion.com has announced the publication of a report sharing how it is using Facebook to sell clothing in Nigeria and leveraging the social media channel for the New York-based wholesale clothing business that exports brand name clothing, shoes and handbags in markets across Africa. The ideas [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. September 7, 2012: South Africans are at their tweeting best on Mondays, the first working day of the week, a new study that reviewed the country’s growing connection with the social media platform has shown. World Wide Worx, a technology market research company, conducted the “South African Social Media Landscape 2012” [...]
By Bunmi Adeniyi Lagos. July 1, 2012. Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) licences issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to 11 companies to offer wireless internet and data service across the nook and cranny of Nigeria have expired last June. The expiry of the five-year lifespan of the licences have once again refocused the attention [...]
By Abbas Bolanle Lagos. June 27, 2012. The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) and Nigerian ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions Ltd have forged an alliance that fosters connection of higher educational institutions in Nigeria (HEIs) into clusters that will also deliver benefits of lower pricing of bandwidth to member-schools. Both parties say the alliance [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. May 23, 2012: Globacom Nigeria has launched a new App store for Android, Blackberry and Java supported mobile devices under a major bid by the Second National Operator (SNO) to explore new revenue stream in mobile content delivery. Globacom ventured into mobile content and application space in order to provide access [...]
By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. May 11, 2012. MTN Nigeria and three other GSM networks have been fined a total of N1.17 billion in penalty for providing poor quality telephony service to mobile phone users in Nigeria, in a no-more-business-as usual hammer wielded by the nation’s telecoms regulator. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation’s [...]
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