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NCC Grasps At Straws To Save Telecom Consumers In Limbo- Contd.
Blog The local marketing industry is also expected to be hit by the NCC’s ban, as it earns a high proportion of its income from the four cellcos MTN Nigeria, Globacom, Celtel Nigeria and M-Tel. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has imposed a...
[March 22, 2008, 15:42]
NCC Grasps At Straws To Save Telecom Consumers In Limbo- Part 1
Blog First, subscribers are at the mercy of the network with no intervention whatsoever by the National Communications Commission (NCC). Yet the NCC and the National Assembly members appear to have submitted the communication destiny of our dear nation...
[March 10, 2008, 9:03]
NCC Vs NBC In The Emerging Convergence Regulation In Nigeria
Blog Emerging new infrastructures with more capacity that can provide these new innovative services are Strong compelling reasons why the NBC and NCC Merger should be consummated soon so that they can offer regulatory policing because of the new...
[May 7, 2008, 10:53]
Government Launches Open Source Test Lab
News The National Computing Centre (NCC) has set up an open source laboratory to test the viability of the technology for public sector organisations, it has announced. NCC is running the academy in a consortium which includes four councils and local IT...
[June 20, 2005, 15:00]
Shakeup Of 'absurd' Copyright Law Demanded
News The National Consumer Council (NCC) has called for a revision of UK copyright laws to enshrine the right to copy material for private use. UK copyright law does not allow people to reproduce copyrighted material -- including CDs and DVDs -- for...
[May 11, 2006, 16:30]
Businesses Urged To Tackle VoIP And Wi-Fi Threats
News IT body the National Computing Centre (NCC) is warning that, although organisations are addressing IT security generally, through virus protection, spam blocking and firewalls, newer technologies are being neglected.
[September 5, 2007, 16:03]
IT Spending Soars In Financial Sector
News According to statistics released on Friday by the National Computing Centre (NCC), financial sector growth is being driven by new expenditure in voice over IP (VoIP) services and in online security. The NCC believes the public sector is exploiting...
[November 6, 2006, 12:59]
Government Trails Private Sector In IT Wages
News The findings are part of the National Computing Centre's (NCC's) latest Benchmark of Salaries and Employment Trends in IT survey. Michael Dean, group marketing manager for the NCC, told GC News that government staff also do not do well on fringe...
[February 12, 2008, 14:47]
Software Vendors Forcing Unfair Licences On Users
News Of 25 software packages surveyed by the National Consumer Council (NCC), 14 had no mention in their packaging that the user must accept a licence agreement before the software can be installed. The NCC's Whose licence is it anyway?
[February 21, 2008, 9:33]
UK Tech Spending Set To Beat Inflation
News According to research by the National Computing Centre (NCC), around 58 percent of companies will make inflation-busting increases to what they spend on IT. NCC managing director Stefan Foster said the results of the survey suggest technology...
[March 11, 2008, 8:54]
Demand Grows For IT Contractors
News The NCC found that while a recovery in demand for IT labour appears to be underway, it is characterised by a reliance on offshore sources rather than local labour and on contractors rather than permanent staff, with salary increase rates remaining...
[February 5, 2004, 16:25]
Data Protection Watchdog Targets Businesses
News The launch of the Regulatory Action Division (RAD) by the Information Commission comes in the same week the National Consumer Council (NCC) warned that tougher and better policed data protection legislation is needed to deal with the increasing...
[June 17, 2005, 15:20]
UK Companies Report Slack Security Awareness
News This situation is likely to lead to security breaches, warned the National Computing Centre (NCC), which published the survey results on Thursday. The NCC, an independent research organisation with members that include universities, government...
[February 2, 2004, 10:35]
Consumer Group Calls For DRM Safeguards
News In a submission to the parliamentary All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), which has launched an investigation into DRM, the NCC claimed that DRM is already constraining the legitimate consumer use of digital content, and undermining...
[January 18, 2006, 13:00]
IT Gets A Seat On The Board
News According to a National Computing Centre (NCC) survey of 250 medium- to large-sized organisations, IT is now much more widely represented formally at company board level. The NCC said the results indicate IT professionals are losing out on the top...
[July 27, 2006, 11:00]
UK IT Spend To Rise Next Year
News The forecasts, NCC said, were fractionally gloomier than year's survey. Michael Dean, director of membership for the NCC, said in a statement: "Interestingly, the number of Linux and Unix workstations is actually smaller than in the previous year's...
[September 29, 2004, 18:00]
Microsoft's Hyper-V Boosts Interest In Virtualisation
News Speaking about virtualisation at the launch of Microsoft's latest server OS, Andrew Hopkirk, head of projects and programmes at the National Computing Centre (NCC), said: "Even the sceptics are paying attention because the potential is there to be...
[March 3, 2008, 8:25]
Artificial Intelligence: The Edge Of Research And Beyond
News This is a Blue Gene supercomputer project to model 10,000 complex neurons configured as a rat neocortical column (NCC). The first run of the full 10,000 neuron NCC took place as expected at the end of 2005: the researchers are now on version two of...
[March 29, 2006, 18:40]
Developing Nigerian 3g Mobile Content.
Blog The Nigerian regulator, NCC, should bring together industry players to pursue strategic content initiatives and bring to market, innovative 3g content and services. The NCC should aim to bring operators together and chart a way forward thereby...
[March 4, 2008, 13:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The NCC spends most of its time saying `It's really unfair.and then making sure something gets done about it. As for the NCC: watch this space. How nice for them. Everyone's getting a friend overseas these days -- it's almost as if they'd woken up...
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