Just about one hour ago, VEDA Technology launched their homepage which features the 4 products they’ll be launching tomorrow at the Civic Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos.

My guess is that the website is yet to be fully developed, as there are currently no pages or other links except for the latest news button, which takes you to media stories about VEDA. (Startups Nigeria’s article about VEDA was featured also).

According to VEDA’s website,

VEDA Technology Limited was born in Lagos, Nigeria. The founders understood the demand for premium personal computers by a new breed of consumers who need a platform tailor-made for their needs and interests. VEDA sees this growth and strives to enhance the quality of computing with its platforms.

Every VEDA product has one year warranty (labor and parts) inclusive that seems to last like a life time because even after it expires, we offer you unbelievable after sales service that helps us help you pamper your product keeping it in top notch condition always.

The featured products are:

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It’s been exactly 7 weeks since The Punch Newspaper launched their mobile service called Mobile Punch, a service that provides media consumers access to the full text of the newspaper on their mobile phones which is available to mobile phone subscribers on the three major GSM networks – MTN, Glo and Zain.

When we heard the news, we were excited but it was disappointing to learn that the service was for a fee. The service which was launched on March 16, was to be accessed with a subscription fee of N600 monthly, that is, N20 daily, payable by cash, ATM or Visa cards. In April, Punch announced a slight adjustment in the subscription fee for Mobile Punch which now cost N1,500 per month.

I’m guessing your reaction: Absolutely ludicrous, right? That’s how some of the comments sounded on the Punch article that announced the new price.

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A look at the latest Opera State of the Mobile Web report (March 2009) shows that Nigeria has displaced Germany to become the world’s 10th country with the most Opera Mini users. Back in September 2008, Egypt displaced Germany to become the second African country behind South Africa to join the top 10 countries.

At the time, Kenya and Nigeria Opera Mini users were surging, and we predicted that the mobile web will replace traditional web in Nigeria. With this report, Nigeria is now the 2nd African country behind South Africa (placed at 6th) to join the top 10 countries. Also noteworthy is the fact that Nigeria’s Opera Mini page-view growth since March 2008 was 4,322% with page-views per user at 324. Unique-user growth since March 2008 was 1,472%. 

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Update: Post has been updated

As we mark our first year anniversary today, we’re excited to announce that we have received our first invitation to an IT product launch from VEDA Technology (site will be launched on May 5) a new computer electronics manufacturing company based in Lagos. VEDA Technology has the vision to become a leader in the growth and development of information and communication technology in Africa.

Incorporated as Trantech Computer Technology Limited in June 2007 and later changed its name to Veda Technology Limited to bring the name in line with the chosen brand name VEDA (Hindu for wisdom). VEDA is a computer electronics manufacturing company with its main focus as Assembly of Personal Computers including Notebooks, All-in-Ones and Desktop Computers. 

The company has built an ultra-modern high tech facility in Lagos that is capable of assembling a variety of premium computers and electronic products with a capacity to assemble up to 500 units of hardware a day.

VEDA Technology will be launching its four major products next week: 14 inches notebook, 12 inches notebook as well as desktop and laptop computers of various colours including white, black, blue, yellow and pink to match different customers’ taste and fancy.

VEDA’s free multimedia resource application called QUEST will be the first of its kind in the Nigerian Technology Industry. The application aims to put the Nigerian consumers first by providing pre-loaded content and solutions tailor-made for their unique needs, aspirations and goals.

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It’s been over 48 hours since Nigeria’s online business news daily newspaper, BusinessDayOnline.com has been down. As we write this, if you visit the site you’ll find this:

We are currently carrying out site and server maintenance and will be back shortly

Please visit us soon. 

Update - 28/04 (11:35am): BusinessDay said (about 2 hours ago) on their Facebook page that their website is back up and functional. But we’ve tried several times and the site is practically unaccessible. There’s still “This site may harm your computer” warning on the Google search page. It’s been 4 days now!

If you also do a Google search of www.businessdayonline.com, you’re likely to find this:

We got the information from their Facebook fans page which has information about the problem. See below:

Again there’s currently a Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Page for www.businessdayonline.com, which means that according to Google,

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