Nigerian Army Kicks Off 2025 Study Period, Focuses on Capacity Building - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC NA) has kicked off its 2025 study period, with a focus on capacity building and effective training for joint military operations, reports 

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The event, which took place at the TRADOC NA Auditorium in Minna, brought together top military officers, experts, and stakeholders to discuss pressing security challenges and strategies for improving training.

ICANN extends comment period for Short-term options - ITREALMS

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has extended both the Public Comments on Short-term Options to Adjust the Timeline for Specific Reviews and the Long-term Options to Adjust the Timeline of Reviews in response to community requests for additional time to prepare comments, reports ITRealms.

The Public Comment periods on both the Short-term Options and Long-term Options remain open and will encourage all stakeholders to contribute.

Also, ITRealms reports that the public comment period on Short-term Options to adjust the Timeline for Specific Reviews and the public comment period on Long-term Options to Adjust the Timeline of Reviews will close on 31 July 2018 at 23:59 UTC.

ITRealms recalls that ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.

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BlackBerry revenue continues to nose-dive

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BlackBerry has reported lower revenue for the period ending 30 November 2014, reports ITRealms, although it managed to reduce its net loss for the period.

ITRealms gathered the company reported a Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) net loss of $148 million about N27742600000.00, including a $150 million non-cash charge associated with the fair value of debentures and a pre-tax restructuring charge of $5 million.

According to MobileWorldLive, the loss was less than the prior quarter’s $207 million, and considerably lower than the $4.4 billion loss in the equivalent quarter in 2013. The company did however achieve a non-GAAP profit of $6 million.

Revenue was $793 million, which was down from $1.19 billion in Q3 FY2014 and the $916 million reported in the previous quarter.

Around 46 per cent of revenue was from hardware, 46 per cent from services and 8 per cent from software and other revenue. Revenue was recognised on two million BlackBerry smartphones.

When discussing the revenue in the company’s results call, CEO John Chen said “to us it’s not satisfying”.

As well as reducing its loss, the company reported positive cashflow ($43 million) for the first time in two years. “We achieved a key milestone in our eight quarter plan with positive cash flow,” Chen noted.

He added that the company’s focus is now on expanding distribution and driving revenue growth: “It is my belief that we can grow and stabilise the company’s revenue in 2016. Sustainable profitability can only come from revenue growth and that is certainly our intention,” he said.

Chen said the company worked to clear its inventory of old devices during the quarter, reducing it by 93 per cent year-on-year. This will help the company drive uptake of its newer devices including the Passport and recently-unveiled Classic (pictured).

“We have a pretty strong device roadmap going forwards and we will discuss this at Mobile World Congress,” Chen noted.

The company said it continues to anticipate maintaining its strong cash position while looking for opportunities to “prudently invest” in growth.

One area of investment is the Internet of Things (IoT): “I believe the investment we made in our technology portfolio, as well as investment in infrastructure, will serve to make us the most complete and integrated platform in the industry for managing IoT devices,” Chen claimed.

The company also announced it has completed the acquisition of voice and data encryption company Secusmart, a deal first announced in July.

Outside headline: story is by Tim Ferguson/MWL

 

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