Symantec builds escape route for mobile workers against system attack

From Left: Channel Manager Nigeria and Ghana, Symantec,  Adeyemi Adeleke, Group Public Relations Manager Emerging Markets Peter Rae,  Regional Vice President,  Emerging Markets Kevin Isaac and  the Enterprise Account Manager, Oseme Osobase at the Symantec press briefing to announce Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 in Lagos recently.

By Prince Osuagwu

Symantec has announced the company has expanded its encryption solution set with the introduction of Symantec PGP Viewer for  iOS, which enables mobile workers to view encrypted email on an Apple iPad, iPhone, or iTouch, and a new version of Symantec Endpoint Encryption Full Disk Edition.
This new version according to the company,......

Nigeria needs trusted ICT advisers to various stakeholders — CISCO

By Prince Osuagwu

Dibor

After announcing recently that CISCO has over 1 million students on its academy recently, Free Talk Africa tracked the company’s Area Academy Manager,
West & Central Africa, Mr. Chinedu Dibor, and besides confirming the information, he also advised on how entreprises should help Nigeria raise trusted ICT advisers to various stake holds of the economy.
Enjoy the interview.....

‘How ICT solution can curb the Boko Haram menace’

Boko Haram........The kind of bombs they use

By Prince Osuagwu

Former President of the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON and the Executive Chairman, Technology Development Company Limited, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem has in different occasions argued that unless government took ICT development seriously, it may not properly tackle problems of national security.

Addressing capital flight with satellite business, the NIGCOMSAT solution

Satellite

By Prince Osuagwu

The Nigerian Communications Satellite, NIGCOMSAT Limited, last week, gathered stakeholders at the International Conference Centre, Abuja , to discuss the future of satellite business in Nigeria. The confab which was woven around the theme Optimizing Satellite Communications for National Development, also meant to galvanise interest of investors towards using satellite business to help the Nigerian economy out of the woods.

Etisalat hooks on Telefonica Spain for Broad-Based Cooperation

By Prince Osuagwu

Two of the world’s leading telecommunications companies, Etisalat UAE and Telefonica Spain, jointly announced recently that they have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement to enter into a broad based cooperation. This partnership will allow both groups to collaborate on a range of strategic areas given their capabilities and expertise. As a result, the companies will strengthen their capabilities to address global industry trends and compete in each of their markets, capturing efficiencies and advancing initiatives aimed at better serving their customers’ needs across their respective footprints.

Confusion over new CT ministry

       *We’re confused, NIG president
       *It’s not time yet to clap, NCS chairman
       *Stakeholders fault FG on two grounds

By Prince Osuagwu

President Jonathan

The Information and Communications Technology, ICT ministry became necessary in Nigeria with the speed of development convergence has brought into the world economy. It became more so, with the radical transformation the economy experienced with the introduction of the Global System for Mobile communication, GSM, in the country in 2001.
Many industry stakeholders like the now President of the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria, ATCON, Engr Titi Omo-Ettu, his predecessor, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwen, Chairman of the Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, ALTON, Engr Gbenga Adebayo and the President of Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Dr Chris Uwaje among a host of others, who have envisaged the benefits of convergence in an emerging ICT economy like Nigeria, raised their voices to this call.
Different advocacy groups in the ICT sector like the Joint Action Group for ICT awareness and Development, JACITAD, Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, Nigerian Internet Group, NIG, Information Technology Association of Nigeria, ITAN among others, also joined in the call.

Solving the CDMA Operators’ bail-out quagmire

       *Juwah fingers faulty business model
        *Consolidation seems best option
        *Qubain, Starcomms ex boss agrees


By Prince Osuagwu

The talk in recent times has been whether the CDMA operators deserve a bail out

Dr Juwah, EVC, NCC

fund to help them grow their networks to be able to face competition against their GSM counterparts whose fortunes continue to grow astronomically.
In a recent meeting with the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah, the operators themselves cried out through their umbrella associations, the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON and the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, ALTON, that things are no longer rosy with them.
In fact, they admitted that “we are no longer as vibrant as people perceive us. Our industry is in the throes of death. Many of us have stopped operating and several others are simply limping with one leg. Something must be done urgently to save the industry. We need a government bail out as was the case in the United States, when several companies that were dying got injection of government fund as elixir for their rebound”
However, ICT industry professionals are divided on the issue.