Huawei aims to spend 3 billion zlotys ($793 million) in Poland in the next five years, although whether the Chinese firm has a role in the 5G rollout may affect the scale of investment, an official at the group’s Polish unit said. The United States has raised concerns about the security of Huawei technology and […]
Read MoreOn-demand, last-mile, crowdsourced delivery service kwik has launched in Lagos, Nigeria, after raising seed funding in March, with the goal of expanding to other large metropolitan areas across Sub-Saharan Africa. kwik, which will initially focus on deliveries via motorbike, was formed in July 2018 by two Frenchmen and two Nigerians, and has just launched its […]
Read MoreHuawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited has held an award ceremony to celebrate the achievement of some Nigerian students for their remarkable performance at the Huawei Global ICT Competition held in China. An MoU was also launched and signed (between Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited and National Information Technology Development Agency) for the 2019/2020 next edition […]
Read MoreThe U.S. government filed a motion asking for the dismissal of a lawsuit by Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd that claimed the United States had acted illegally when it blacklisted Huawei’s products. Huawei sued the U.S. government in early March, in a complaint filed in federal court in Texas, saying that a law […]
Read MoreIn his book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari pertinently and repeatedly gives us a wakeup call on the daunting challenges posed by the fourth industrial revolution. “It is undoubtedly, however, that the technological revolutions will gather momentum in the next few decades, and will confront humankind with the hardest trials we […]
Read MoreExperts at the ‘Africa Panel Session’ of the 2019 International Telecoms Week (ITW), held recently in Atlanta, USA, and ended last week stressed the importance of broadband infrastructure investment in facilitating the growth of Africa’s digital economy. Speaking on the theme “Enabling Africa’s Digital Economy”, Principal Analyst at TeleGeography, Patrick Christian, evaluated the African digital […]
Read MoreVendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, grew 11.4% in the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), reaching $14.5 billion. Report from International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, showed it also lowered its forecast for total spending […]
Read MoreEnrolment for Nigerians in Diaspora into the National Identity Database, has been extended to those in the Republic of India by the National Identity Management Commission in the programme. The Director General/CEO NIMC, Engr. Aliyu Aziz reiterated that the extension is in line with NIMC’s mandate to ensure that all Nigerian citizens, Legal Residents and […]
Read MoreTechnologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR) have been a hot topic for both businesses and governments for some time now. Their disruptive potential is no longer subject to debate, with leaders now focused on capturing the opportunities that these technologies present. In this article, […]
Read MoreThe number of devices connected to the Internet, including the machines, sensors, and cameras that make up the Internet of Things (IoT), continues to grow at a steady pace. A new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices, or “things,” generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data […]
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