* Rating: 7/10 * Price: About N115,000 * Website: www.nokia.com We cannot ignore a phone from Finland’s finest, especially when it is the company’s flagship Qwerty handset. Keyboard Classic The E7 is a handsome, solidly built phone. It might take you a while to figure out how to reveal the keyboard — you have to [...]

* Rating: 9.5/10 * Type: Open source * Size: 8MB * Website: www.mozilla.com/firefox Mozilla Firefox is a very impressive web browser that has several advantages over Internet Explorer. It is open source and so free to download and use. Firefox 4 has added several useful new features including tab groups and a new menu system. [...]

* Rating: 9/10 * Price: N13,000 (one year, three computers) * Website: www.acronis.co.uk Backup and Security 2011 is essentially a pair of Acronis programs – Internet Security and True Image Home – slung together in a single box to offer a wide backup features alongside anti-virus, anti-phishing, anti-spam and a firewall. Given that Windows now [...]

A young man gazes intently at his mobile device, to which he is listening through earphones. He is so engrossed in his film, his television show, his computer game or whatever he is watching that he does not notice he is blocking the door of the train. Other passengers glare at him. “Do it at [...]

A team of researchers has developed an application which can turn a smartphone into a malaria busting marvel. Each year, the mosquito-borne parasite kills approximately 781,000 people (2.23% of deaths worldwide). Ninety percent of malaria-related deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and of those, the majority (85%) are children under five years old. A team of [...]

Nokia Siemens Networks and Motorola Solutions Inc. (www.motorolasolutions.com)have jointly announced that Nokia Siemens Networks has completed its acquisition of Motorola Solutions’ Networks assets paying US $975 million (about N151.8 billion) in cash. As of April 30 2011, responsibility for supporting customers of Motorola Solutions’ GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE products and services transfers to Nokia [...]

Fast food giant McDonald’s will be introducing contactless payment technology into all its restaurants by the end of May 2011. Mark Fabes, UK IT director for McDonald’s, said that the move will improve the customer experience. “It is about the customer journey. It is quicker than the chip-and-pin transaction,” he said. The firm does not [...]

Pepsi is attempting to push technological boundaries and embrace the trend of social networking by launching a “Social Vending System”. The brand’s parent company PepsiCo has created a networked unit that features touch screen vending technology, and enables users to send drinks as a gift to a friend by selecting a beverage and entering the [...]

Sony’s online gaming service, the PlayStation Network (PSN), has been offline following a cyber attack in April. Sony said on its PlayStation blog that it has shut the service down while it investigates the security breach. “In order to conduct a thorough investigation and verify the smooth and secure operation of our network services going [...]

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has deployed a workforce management system to help doctors prioritise critical real-time patient information. There are also plans to extend the system to support additional services. The software, provided by Nervecentre (www.nerve-centre.org.uk), replaced a bleep system that was used across the Trust’s Nottingham City Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre [...]