Technology
16 Jul 2015
ISON Group, the leading Customer Experience Management provider in the Africa, Middle East and ASEAN region, offering systems integration, managed services, BPO and strategic outsourcing solutions using end-to-end IT services, has further reinforced its presence in Nigeria with the announcement of three additional ISON BPO Call Centres. The Company which provides Call Center Outsourcing services,…
16 Jul 2015
NEW data from Juniper Research has revealed that global eRetail sales are expected to reach $1.7 trillion this year, up by more than 17% on 2014’s total. It argued that while recent growth had been buoyed by factors such as public Wi-Fi deployments and 4G rollout, in the medium term sales would receive a strong…
16 Jul 2015
ASSOCIATION of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has urged the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) to set guidelines for the transition from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) transition to v6 to ensure Nigerians enjoy the improvements to addressing, configuration and maintenance, and security of the internet. Engineer Lanre Ajayi, ATCON, while speaking during network engineers’ training…
16 Jul 2015
Smile Communications Nigeria Limited has received accolades from corporate chieftains in Nigeria for providing unequalled 4G LTE broadband services in the country. The corporate chieftains made up of Chief Executives as well as Chief Information and Chief Technology Officers of large and medium organisations drawn from banks, oil & gas corporations, insurance companies, e-commerce, logistics…
16 Jul 2015
THE federal government appears to be planning a fresh move to coerce major companies in the oil and gas, telecommunications and power sectors of the Nigerian economy to list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The latest initiative to mandate telecommunications services providers to map out 30 per cent of their equities to Nigerians is…
16 Jul 2015
ACCORDING to a new forecast by global analyst firm Ovum, the revenue generated each year by digital consumer publishing – the electronic versions of books, magazines, and newspapers – will grow to US$74bn in 2019, up from US$41bn in 2015 which is a compound annual growth (CAGR) rate of 13%. This is despite a fall…
16 Jul 2015
Stakeholders from around the globe, in the African Domain name business gathered recently in Nairobi, Kenya, for the third edition of the Africa Domain Name System Forum 2015, to discuss the challenges, opportunities and the future of Africa’s Domain Name Industry. This annual event enables Registries, Registrars and other stakeholders share experiences, interact and learn…
15 Jul 2015
This year, the Local Multi-stakeholders Advisory Group (LMAG) in conjunction with other local stakeholders will be organising a two-day Forum, tagged NIGF 2015.
15 Jul 2015
“Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.” Recent happenings in the economy have been very hard to ignore. Especially with different renditions and interpretations in the media, by which public opinions are shaped. Of particular interest is…
15 Jul 2015
MTN Nigeria and key industry players in the technology sector have given their backing to TECH+, Nigeria’s biggest technology conference and exhibition event, which is billed for July 24 and 25 in Lagos. The endorsement came at a media unveiling of the initiative in Lagos and the organisers said it would showcase technology at its…
15 Jul 2015
DELL Software has announced the newest release of its Unified Communications Command Suite, which adds analytics reporting for Office 365 for Exchange Online and Cisco Unified Communications Manager to Dell’s cross-platform analytics and diagnostics solution. Unified Communications Command Suite 8.1, the market’s solution to offer analytics and diagnostics across both Microsoft Exchange and Lync, now…
15 Jul 2015
To further increase the viewing experience of its premium users Samsung Electronics West Africa has introduced into the Nigerian market an Ultra High Definition television. The SUHD TV is a game-changer that evolves in terms of hardware, software, content and the overall ecosystem with display made from Samsung’s proprietary, eco-friendly nano-crystal semiconductors, which transmit different…
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