Old Together by Femi Morgan (Nigeria) I am an angry, bad mouth felon But she loves me She is a rusted anchor of complaints But I love her, more than I love anything I am the late comer and the slight eater As if the soup is not sweet She is the one who refuses me on that lofty place But I love her and she loves me. I am the ruffian, fussing here and there for things not missing She is the silence when silence is the need I am the butt of her jokes when the fuss…
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Leon Wright says, On the whole, the modernisation process should result in businesses experiencing significant benefits that include improved performance, higher reliability, enhanced security and increased flexibility in responding to business needs The Microsoft past Get the hag off the screen; Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows Server 2003. According to the company, this means that there will be no more security updates, non-security hotfixes, free assisted support options or online technical content updates from Microsoft for the age old platform. Microsoft revealed that over the course of the last twelve years, business infrastructure solutions built to run on Windows…
Sifiso Dabengwa, MTN Group President and CEO, He brings extensive knowledge of the local ICT market, and is passionate about people and customer service. We believe the appointment of a leader of Nyati’s calibre and competencies will greatly enhance our efforts to strengthen the confidence of our customers and reinvigorate our people The African mobile network giant has appointed a new CEO for its company in South Africa. The new CEO is to succeed Ahmad Farouk who resigned earlier this month. Mteto Nyati who is the newly elected joined the company as Chief Enterprise Officer in October 2015. Personal impact …
Are you ready to apply for the five Venture Bus 2015? Applications are now open. For the third year in a row, Ampion will run its pan-African start up and is expected to be joined globally. Still on the road tech On the road, the road-preneurs are expected to be supported by experienced mentors from leading tech centres in Africa and world-wide. Also, they are expected to develop information technology solution for African market—this, however, has led to job creation in Africa. It starts now This year alone, five Ampion buses are expected to cross 14 African countries. This will…
This is your location and share Nokia-experience The NOKIA HERE Beta map has received new update after a new interface was added to the menu. This will make it more feasible for your location to be shared. The add-up will enable you to surface your locations with sharing capabilities. Users can now do with a long press to detect their location anywhere with a menu that has sharing option. This menu will also give the users the location, direction, and navigation options. For You If you are a user using an Android phone that runs on 4.1 Jelly Bean or…
GreatIfe: Despite the academic glory of the school, Obafemi Awolowo University has remained the most notorious school known for strike in Nigeria. Most students have complained of the school snail-waddling calendar; a five years course is run for six years in the university. Meeting delivery OAU has issued a new mid-semester break to settle the upheavals of NASU in the university community. The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has announced immediate closure of academic activities on campus after a Senate debriefing yesterday. The meeting was held as a result of the Non-Academic Staff Union protest for their unpaid allowances…
Chief Commercial Officer Airtel, Mr. Maurice Newa says, We have strategically picked these five locations because of the significant footfalls of Nigerians to the locations; a good number of Nigerians miss important calls while abroad, nut with the SMART Roam Service, roaming has been made simpler and affordable such that our customers lines will always stay on while they are abroad. The new thrust Airtel has moved ahead on giving their customer communication comfort by launching the SmartROAM. This service will make their customers to receive unlimited calls from abroad while roaming in five major countries across five continents. The…
The company says, with the increasing speed of commercial network and number of subscribers, exceeding industry expectation, the ability to provide access rate of Gbps has become the necessity of today’s network and, as a result, operators are confronted with ever-increasing level of traffic. Instead of waiting for arrival network of 5G, operator must enhance the network based on existing system and devices. Bandwith Expansion ZTE is set to establish Time Division Duplexing Plus (TDD+). The new service will be a 4.5G mobile communication technology based on LTE TDD. The company announced its launch will take place at the Shanghai’s…
The Old News Once upon a time, long ago, there were computers, and they were very large. Warehouse large. Multi-story large. Tractor-trailer large. So large that in those mythical days of yore, now lost in the mists of time, men were real men(1), women were real women(2), and bugs were actual physical bugs(3), to paraphrase Douglas Adams. Tech Invention Then a terrible but brilliant man named William Shockley went and invented the transistor(4) and recruited America’s best and brightest(5) to come with him to the faraway West, into a valley south of San Francisco which at the time was a…
New Ramadan Reminder GLO Says, the alert service will come in handy to remind the Muslim faithful of the praying time, thereby helping many of them who are engaged in very busy schedules. Interested subscribers need to send ‘AZN’ to 7728 or dial *7728*243# to subscribe at the one-off rate of N50 for Adhan service and the standard N100 caller tune monthly subscription charge. Once signed up, the package would automatically change the ring back tune to call to prayer otherwise called “adhan” at the appropriate time. Ramadan thrill “In the spirit of Ramadan which involves giving and sharing, Glo…