One of Nigeria’s leading public sector ICT infrastructure and services company, Galaxy Backbone, was last week, declared Government Agency of the Year at the Beacon of ICT awards which held at the prestigious Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The Gala night which was created to honor the talents, [...]
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Promoting indigenous software development
DIRECTOR-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Professor Cleopas Angaye, below, enunciates the way forward in terms of indigenous software development, and in fact foresees a time when it will be illegal to source software and hardware except through Nigerian firms certified by NITDA. AS far back as [...]
US credit card hacker sentenced
Computer expert Albert Gonzalez has been jailed for 20 years in the US for his part in stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers. The judge who sentenced him described the case as “the largest and most costly example of computer hacking in US history”. Gonzalez, from [...]
Internet service providers in running battle with hackers
Nigeria: Information reaching Cyberlife has indicated a series of silent battles going on between some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country and a group of super-brilliant Nigerians who are hard at work hacking into the different servers of these Internet Providers obtaining their IP addresses, proxy codes, numbers and [...]
NITDA goes tough on hardware vendors over hazardous e-devices
For hardware vendors in the Nigerian IT market, especially at the Computer Village Ikeja, it may not be business as usual very soon as the National information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) has said that hazardous e-devices imported into the country would soon be banned, adding that guidelines on the provision [...]
Google bosses convicted in Italy
An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online. Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy [...]
Real-Time Search Engine Adds New Features
Real-time search engine Wowd, has introduced a real-time tag cloud and a real-time streaming feature to its search service. The real-time tag cloud is based on hot topics customized to an individual’s search query. Wowd’s “Hot Topics” tag cloud offers a slice of the most popular topics online, including blogs, [...]