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White Paper United Cement Company of Nigeria (UNICEM) operates the most technically advanced cement plant south of the Sahara. The company needed a modern business process management system to comply with new reporting standards and... [01 Oct 2009]
$5bn of mobile money destined for the poor
News Operators such as South Africa's MTN - the continent's biggest operator - and Kuwait's Zain are piling in services similar to M-Pesa in a slew of countries including South Africa and Nigeria, and have pilot schemes... [15 Jun 2009]
Your Message on the Move: An Introduction to Mobile Marketing and Mobile Advertising
White Paper Suddenly, the mailboxes were all inundated with Viagra, Asian girls, and mysterious personal letters from princes in Nigeria. Remember when e-mail marketing was all the rage? It was marketing at its best. [22 Apr 2009]
Second life for 1,000 government laptops
News The laptops are wiped of data and sent to organisations such as a community centre in Nigeria that provides training to women and children to give them the skills they need to access higher education or start their own... [27 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.02.09
Round-Up According to a report on the BBC, he told the Lancashire Telegraph: "I started getting phone calls from various constituents asking if I was really in Nigeria needing 3,000 dollars. As the world plunges deeper and deeper... [27 Feb 2009]
Only one in 10 Brits recycles old mobiles
News The survey is based on responses from people in 13 countries: Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Nigeria, Russia, Sweden, UK, United Arab Emirates and USA. Just one in 10 people in the UK recycle... [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Lake Chad, situated at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, was once the sixth-largest lake in the world but persistent droughts have shrunk it to about a 10th of its former size. World-leading climate... [22 May 2008]
silicon.com Classics: 'Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply?
News Everyone is now familiar with these 419 scam emails, so called because of the section of the criminal code in Nigeria (where a number of these emails have originated) which deals with fraud. In the first of a new weekly... [04 Feb 2008]
Foreign Office admits data breach
News As soon as the breach was exposed, UKvisas closed down all of the VFS-run websites in India, Nigeria and Russia in order to rectify the problem. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the FCO after... [14 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.07.07
Round-Up The official News Agency of Nigeria claims some of the country's school children who received laptops from a US aid agency have been using them to check out porn websites. Kids these days don't know they're born. [27 Jul 2007]
Cadbury takes wraps off £650m efficiency drive
News He said: "With great accomplishment always come a few setbacks, IT implementation, product recalls, accounting misstatements in Nigeria and commodities prices have been ours. Confectionary and soft drinks giant Cadbury... [26 Jun 2007]
Online fraud warning signs revealed
News Based on fraud reporting from UK fraud managers, the London postcode SE28 is the "most troublesome" for fraud and chargeback within the UK, alongside overseas destinations such as Estonia and Nigeria, according to... [30 Apr 2007]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment They will be joined by officials from Russia and Nigeria, law enforcement agencies as well as private companies such as Microsoft, PayPal and Visa. E-crime has become too great a menace to ignore, says Simon Moores. [07 Mar 2007]
$100 laptop prototype goes on show
News By the end of the second quarter of 2007, it plans to have a version of the laptop ready to ship to children in Argentina, Brazil, Libya and Nigeria. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project on Thursday showed off the... [17 Nov 2006]
Mobiles to track bird flu and Aids spread
News Now it's hoped the system will be deployed across the whole of Rwanda as well as other African countries including Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania. Doctors tracking the spread of HIV and bird flu have a new tool to... [18 Oct 2006]
