The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) is looking to release a new price for data, Prof. Umar Danbatta, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, has said. Danbatta made the disclosure on Thursday during his induction as a Fellow of the Nigeria Academy of Engineering (NAE). Danbatta was inducted along with 11 others at the investiture of…

A new power app, 247electric has been invented to impact on the nation’s economy, using the innovative solution to tackle the range of problems in the electricity supply value chain. The Business Development Manager, 247electric, Eno Bassey, said the app is a power sector focused platform that collects data by engaging enterprising smart phone owners…

Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has directed traditional rulers to collate data on herdsmen operating in the state for easy identification and maintenance of peace. Umahi, who gave the order on Friday in Abakaiki at a meeting with traditional rulers and miners in the state, noted that the data should include herdsmen’s names, location and…

Nigeria’s foremost telecommunications company, Globacom, has raised the bar again in the nation’s telecoms industry as it announced a bundle offer of large data with 4G MiFi thus extending the threshold of unfair advantage for its teeming subscribers. Announcing the bundle offer in Lagos during the week, the company said that the offer comes with…

Everyone who owns a smartphone has faced this challenge at least once, that awkward moment when you want to take a picture with a celebrity or record an important event in real-time, only for the phone to read "Low Storage". For those who have experienced this, here are some quick ways to create space on…

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has urged the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as private sector organisations on the need to patronise Nigerian data centres.      Apart from the economic benefits it brings to the country, NITDA noted that the progress made in the adoption and utilisation of ICT in…

Some 9mobile MiFi subscribers on Monday expressed concern over the depletion of their data, in addition to the rising costs of the data bundle. The customers made this known in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. According to them, the depletion is causing a lot of damages to their work and…

Akinwunmi Ambode has called on statisticians to improve the process of data gathering and collation for the use by government institutions and research purposes.

Data revenue now contributes 20% to total revenue for the SA-headquartered telco, which saw voice traffic (billable minutes) increase by 2% and total data traffic by 145%.

Onsite backups through a network-attached storage feature copy your information on to a hard drive. In some instances tape drives are also used—the combination of which provides ready ...

Oil prices fell Wednesday on profit-taking after the previous day's sharp gains, while traders expected another rise in US crude inventories.

French investigators said Wednesday they had succeeded in extracting "usable data" from the first black box recovered from the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps.