Author: ITPulse

  The new elected President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), Mr. Yele Okeremi has unveiled the agenda, which he said would move the group forward towards achieving its goal. Okeremi, who spoke briefly during the handover from the previous executive led by Olorogun James Emadoye, said the new executive will work hard to ensure local software are trusted and patronize globally. “The major obstacle we have seen in the acceptance of local software is trust. This is what we will largely work on so that locally written software can be accepted globally,” he promised. Though, he…

Our phones can make us distracted, stressed and depressed. A growing number of apps aim to help us reclaim our lives. By William Wan To understand why it’s so hard to pry yourself free from your phone, Facebook account and Twitter, you need to know about B.F. Skinner’s pigeons. In the 1950s, Skinner began putting the birds in a box and training them to peck on a piece of plastic whenever they wanted food. Then the Harvard psychology researcher rigged the system so that not every peck would yield a tasty treat. It became random — a reward every 3 pecks, then 5…

Software giant, Microsoft has sealed a partnership deal with Sidmach Technologies that will see the two tech companies addressing digital dysfunction in Nigerian schools. Subsequently, the two companies will bring together stakeholders, ranging from the Proprietors, Principals, Head Teachers and other high-level school administrators to an event in Lagos, and introduce to them tools that aid effective school management. The essence of the event, which will take place next week Friday at the Radisson Blu, Ikeja GRA, Lagos is to drive growth in quality of education across secondary schools in Lagos and help the schools create efficiency and effectiveness…

  By Kester Omu The 2018 Africa Telecoms Maturity Index report launched by BuddeComm, has indicated that Gabon, Botswana, South Africa and Mauritius have the highest mobile teledensity ahead of Nigeria, the continent’s biggest telecom market in terms of subscribers. Teledensity are mostly measured based on a country’s population and the popularity of consumers having multiple SIM cards is expected to impact the teledensity of any country. While Nigeria’s teledensity of 115 percent is calculated based on a national population of 140 million, according to the 2006 last census population figures, Gabon with the highest teledensity of 163 percent in…

  According to reports, a variable aperture sensor is likely to be included next to a secondary telephoto lens. An 8MP selfie sensor is rumoured to be placed on the front. Samsung is reportedly preparing to exclusively release a Galaxy Note 9 variant with 512GB onboard storage in certain markets such as South Korea and China, the media reported. “Android 8.1 Oreo coupled with the latest version of ‘Samsung Experience’ are set to ship straight out of the box, with all of this being backed by a 4,000mAh battery,” PhoneArena reported late on Sunday. As of now, it is unclear…

  Nigerian parents, here is what your kids search online, according to Kaspersky Lab’s latest Parental Control report. Data from the report shows that kids in Nigeria visited communication sites (such as social media, messengers, or emails) 93 percent of cases over the previous 12 months, making these sites the most popular pages visited by computers with parental controls switched on. Though, the percentage of visit to these sites is dropping every year as mobile devices continue to play a bigger role in children’s online activities, the second most popular category of websites visited in Nigeria by these users is…

  Nigeria’s largest system integration company, CWG Plc has been confirmed as one of the companies licensed by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to participate in the procurement of prepaid meters in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). CWG announced the receipt of the license in Lagos through a statement by its Group Head, Brand & Marketing Communications, Mrs. Anthonia Ehanmo. According to the statement, CWG will proceed to obtain Meter Asset Provider Permit from the NERC after entering into Metering Service Agreement with Electricity Distribution Companies. The Meter Asset Provider Permit allows CWG and other licensees to finance,…

  The team of lawyers who participated in compelling MTN to pay the N330 billion fine slammed on it in 2015 by the Nigerian Communications Commission for SIM registration breaches will be paid a whopping N500 million fee. The Minister of Justice and Attoney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami disclosed this, stressing that the N500 million is a fair deal to the lawyers and is less than one percent of the total fine, which MTN agreed to pay. “The Federal Government has  sanctioned the payment of N500 million for the N330 billion agreed to be paid by MTN for…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has assured there are machineries in place to resolve the persistent Right of Way challenges, which many industry watchers believe has slowed down the uptake of ubiquitous broadband penetration in the country. The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta gave assurance when the new Executive Council of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) led by its President, Olusola Teniola, paid a working visit to the Commission’s Headquarter in Abuja last week. He disclosed that the State Governors, who many people believe are part of the challenges of…

  Internet giant, Google has announced it is extending the LaunchPad Accelerator Africa programme to include startups from a further 12 African countries of Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Cameroon, Botswana, Sénégal, Ethiopia, Cote d’Ivoire, Algeria. The existing countries of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda in the class 1 of the programme will be retained. Interested startups can apply here: https://developers.google.com/startups/regional/. Applications for Class 2 will close on 8 July. To qualify, startups have to be a technology startup, based in Sub-Saharan Africa, targeting the African market, and have raised seed funding. Google additionally considers the problem…