Every time a million people stream the same football match, mobile networks waste bandwidth by sending a million separate copies of the same video. Broadcast towers solved this problem decades ago by sending one signal that any receiver in range can pick up. 5G Broadcast is the attempt to bring that one-to-many efficiency into the cellular world, so a single transmission can serve a whole neighborhood, stadium, or apartment block.
The idea is finally leaving the lab. Commercial receivers, government rollouts, and new reliability research all landed within the past year. Here's what the technology actually is, where the confusing terminology trips people up, and how close it really is to replacing cable.
Unicast versus Multicast
Normal mobile data is unicast, offering one...
Nigeria's social media growth industry runs on infrastructure most users never see. Behind every follower, like, or view delivered through an SMM panel sits a technical system deciding how that engagement actually gets sourced, processed, and delivered. For developers and resellers building on top of these platforms, understanding that infrastructure matters as much as the storefront itself.
Chickletboost, a Nigerian social media growth platform now also serving Ghana and Kenya, has built its infrastructure around a specific technical and philosophical choice, routing engagement through real, active users rather than automated bot networks, while still exposing that system through a fully-featured REST API developers can build on directly.
The Real Problem With Bot-Driven Infrastructure
Most SMM panels source engagement through automated bot networks,...
The most popular mobile browser and music service to provide free downloadable music in nine African countries.
Oslo, December 19th, 2019 - Opera and Mdundo, a leading African music sharing platform, has announced that Opera Mini users can now, for free, listen to and download their favorite songs from the most recognized artists in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Through this partnership Opera seeks to expand the functionalities of Opera Mini and bring African music fans closer to their favorite songs.
“Mdundo has changed the way people listen to music on their smartphones,” said Michael Gray,...
A sitemap is a page and/or file that lists all the pages of a website in-order to help people and search engines easily navigate the website. The page contains a link to every page (or at least the important ones) of the website.
Sitemaps come in two major forms. An HTML sitemap is targeted at human visitors (but can also be helpful to search engines). It is a normal web page that offers a structured list of all pages of a website, this html sitemap is a great example.
The other form is the XML sitemap. This is exclusively provided for...
When you own your website for a long period of time, you are prone to customizations and changes on daily basis. These are usually small changes, but one day you decide to go all in because you figured out a new angle on how to make your website extra amazing by starting over and building a new one, but without the rookie mistakes this time.
You’ve got the themes, you’ve got the plugins, settings, customizations, content, you’ve got it all right; except for one itsy bittsy tiny detail.
You will have to change your URL...and nobody will recognize that it's only...
The online space has become a breeding ground for thieves to fully manifest their wickedness. This has led to a deep need for online privacy by most internet users and has driven many to take up Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to protect their identity and their data.
You probably are interested in VPN services yourself. If that’s the case, here’s what you need to know before you invest in best VPN services:
1. The Technical Security Aspect
A VPN service that you should invest your money in should be packed with the best security features like split tunneling, Tor compatibility, kill...
A lot of people are talking excitedly about how 5G is going to revolutionise mobile connectivity. There are equally a few people skeptical of the technology citing health concerns. However not many people understand how or why the modern mobile broadband technology is such a big deal.
5G is indeed going to be way better than any of its previous mobile network technologies, and not only because of the natural progression of numbers that started at 1G for analogue and 2G for digital.
Here, we will try to dumb down 5G for the layman through an introduction to the concept and...
Keeping your kid safe is the primary concern of any parent. However, the emergence of the Internet, creates a potentially harmful environment making this job a lot harder. What is more, due to the wide-spread accessibility of connectivity, as well as the multiple devices it can be accessed on, there is all the more content taking up huge chunks of your child’s time daily.
Considering the parts of the day children stay hooked to their Internet-connected device, smartphone, tablet or laptop, it has been pivotal to try and understand what they spend the most time on.
In this regard, research stats...
There are different types of social media profiles, but you will need to manage the one you want to use so you can reap the benefits of the platform and your profile. It is only then that you will be able to gain more social engagement.
The social media platforms allow you to publish lots of posts to which you can react with your social profiles. However, you will need to know and use the subset of these sources available to you when you want to set up searches.
As of now, you are allowed to use the following types of...
Web hosting is a category of service that allows individuals and groups to make a website publicly available on the internet. Simply put, web hosting services fall in the spectrum of special business, and they provide the technology needed to view the website on the internet.
The websites or web pages are most likely hosted and saved on a special computing device known as a server.
HostingRaja renders web hosting services that cater to low-cost means of web applications to enterprises, non-profit-making associations, and government agencies.
The company offer a broad range of website hosting options, whether you have been looking...
Tracking the position of web pages in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) is one of the daily routines of an SEO. This enables you see how well or badly your Search Engine Optimisation work is going. Checking each page can be laborious, this is where Rank Tracking tools come in. Here are we share the Best SEO Rank Tracker Tools.
An SEO Rank Tracker like SEMRush will regularly monitor SERPs for your chosen keywords and update you on your position for each of those keywords. All you need to do is setup your keywords that you wish to track, and...
Filing for bankruptcy is a drastic decision and often the last resort for many people. The reason for this is that it can tarnish one’s reputation and remain as a scar on their financial record for the rest of their life.
Everyone going through a serious financial challenge wants to know whether filing for bankruptcy is a good idea or it just trades one heartbreak for another.
One particular concern most individuals have is whether the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) colloquially referred to as the taxman will continue collecting tax debts after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
What Is Chapter 7...
With more than 1.7 billion websites in the world, getting traffic to your website can seem like a daunting task. But you can get plenty of traffic to your website if you are ready to put in the time and money, depending on what you have at your disposal.
Those who have more time, will invest more of their time. Those who have money will invest more money than time using SEO services like SirLinksalot Backlinks. Here are some of the things you can do to boost traffic to your website.
Analytics
Web analytics are a powerful tool for understanding your audience...
According to GTP Headlines, one of the largest global industries in 2018, “the Travel and Tourism industry contributed $8.8 Trillion to the global economy”. Nonetheless, the travel industry is considered a high-risk industry. The risk climbs even higher for those who are in the timeshare business.
Timeshare companies offer a product that facilitates economical vacation options for clients. In era where traveling is considered as a therapy to shackle away personal as well as the professional hindrance, timeshare companies have a huge scope to grow.
But managers of timeshare companies need to ensure that the core goal of their business,...
Lagos, Nigeria, November 18, 2019 - Opera Ads is a fast-growing online advertising platform that seamlessly integrates into the Opera product portfolio and its 350 million global users.
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The company has recently announced the addition of new ad units that will help Nigerian advertisers increase engagement with their target audiences and maximize the performance of their online campaigns.
In traditional online advertising, marketers tend to redirect users to a landing page where they need to navigate a number of clicks to reach a call-to-action button for what they need, such as contact information, online chats, or just the phone number of...
The new data servers have just improved the internet experience for millions of Nigerians.
Lagos, Nigeria, November 13, 2019 - Opera Limited (Nasdaq: OPRA), one of the world’s major browser developers and leader in AI-driven digital content, has officially announced the successful installation of their new local servers hosted within the MDXi Lekki Data Centre in Lagos, Nigeria, which is also the largest leading data centre in West Africa.
With the installation of the new local servers in Lagos, Opera is improving the online experience of its fast-growing user base in Nigeria.
The servers speed up online browsing, making the connection...
Finding an online trading platform to rely on these days is rather easy due to the number of available platforms.
There are platforms for all kinds of assets and instruments as well as platforms designed for all sorts of personalities and needs.
However, not all platforms are suitable for all traders, and you will have to do some research to find the best platform for you, and in the following guide, we provide insight into five things you have to consider when picking a trading platform.
1. Availability in Your Region
The number one thing you have to ensure is that the...
The new media platform helps authors and bloggers produce and distribute original content while getting discovered by new audiences
Lagos, Nigeria, November 12, 2019 - Opera, the Norwegian browser developer and leader on AI driven digital content, announced today that Opera News, the most downloaded news app in Nigeria, is expanding its platform with the introduction of Opera News Hub - a new online media platform that helps authors and bloggers produce and create their online content and share it with the fast-growing Opera user base of more than 350 million users worldwide and over 120 million users in the...
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it is what many in the website design world go by. This is why websites have mainly looked alike for a while now. Website designers have found users to interact with websites in favorable ways with the bold visual trend that’s currently ongoing.
This popular trend hasn’t been fully taken advantage of though as most websites use just bold fonts, shapes, and images without paying much attention to the video. The most you would see of a video is it being on a particular section as a YouTube embed. There are very few websites...
The holidays are just around the corner – and it is an interesting time for us all.
Of course, we could argue that there are about two months left, but we all know that the season comes upon us all like a surprise, no matter how long we have prepared for it.
Before the ups and downs of the festivities get to a head, though, how about we take a moment to look at digital gifts you could get for your loved ones?
Why Consider Digital Gifts?
Digital gift ideas are a welcome option for a variety of reasons, some of which are:
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What would you do if you realized that you can’t open and play an important video file? I bet, you are not prepared for such kind of an issue. You’d probably try to play the video with multiple media players, install some new codecs, or even try to play the video from a different device.
If nothing helps, you’d probably search Google for a solution and get tons of articles and different guides on how to repair your damaged, unplayable video file with some tools.
But how to choose the right tool that doesn’t cost a fortune, and can actually fix...
Lagos, Nigeria, 28 of October 2019 - Opera Limited (Nasdaq: OPRA), one of the world’s major browser developers and leader in AI-driven digital content, has announced the launch of OLeads — a new online lead generation platform for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
OLeads offers a unique tools to maximise SMEs’ visibility and online presence, increasing awareness about their business, and helping ramp up sales.
Today, SMEs are the backbone of the Nigerian economy. According to the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), there are more than 40 million SMEs in Nigeria.
However, one of their major challenges is...
Night browsing is very popular in Nigeria because it offers cheap browsing and provides internet surfers with ample time to search for information on...
Big Brother Naija (a.k.a. BBNaija) is a popular Reality TV show in Nigeria, South Africa, and across Africa, offered by MultiChoice on platforms such...
DStv Stream (formerly DStv Now, and often just called the DStv app) is MultiChoice's internet streaming service that lets you watch live TV, movies,...
