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,...
Facebook Ads is a must for most businesses. With over 2.8 billion monthly active users, Facebook represents a veritable goldmine for advertisers, but finding your footing might seem daunting.
Facebook supports both cost per click (CPC) and cost per thousand impression (CPM) ads. You can advertise on Facebook using normal display Facebook advertising or using a type of Facebook ads displayed on Newsfeeds called Sponsored Stories. In this article, we will be looking at Facebook ads.
Facebook Display Ads
Facebook display ads appear in the right side bar. These were the first types of ads available on Facebook. With this type of...
Facebook offers a service that enable businesses and advertisers target its huge user base. Facebook advertising enable businesses build their reputation on the social network by advertising their Facebook business brand pages or advertising their product and services. In this article, we go through the basics of Facebook advertising.
The Beauty of Facebook Advertising
The beauty of Facebook advertising is that it provides you with tools that enable you target the right kind of audience for your Ads. Facebook has lots of information about its users, and as a Facebook advertiser, marketer, or a business advertising on Facebook, you can access...
Our Premium Web Design plan is packaged to offer businesses all the essentials they need to succeed online. With this web design plan, you have full control over your online promotion and marketing. The premium web design plan gives you a website with up to 50 pages at launch with six months content marketing that will grow your online authority and presence as well as your business.
This package is recommended for medium to large businesses or businesses that have large product or service portfolios and want to get the best value. With up to 50 search engine optimised pages...
Our Standard Web design plan offers you a functional website that enables you hit the ground running. It gives you all the control you need for your online promotions and marketing. You can add new content on your website as well as edit existing content yourself, plus you get a built-in blog, which you can update yourself with marketing and promotion information about your business, products, and services.
The Standard web design plan also comes with some freebies that ensure your websites starts getting targeted visitors that will drive sales to your business fast.
The standard web design plan is recommended...
Google Places for Business is one local business listing that you must not ignore. It is owned by the world’s largest search engine and one of the top traffic sources for most websites. Google Places for business allows local businesses to supply more information to Google, which enables Google understand them better and hence offer more accurate and rich results when people search for queries relevant to your business.
With Google Places for Business you can add lots of important information about your business to Google. You can add your phone number, so that customers can call you. You can...
A Local Business Listing is a type of business directory. In fact, for some people both are one of the same things. But I like differentiating the two. For me a local business listing is a versatile online business directory. Let’s face it the likes of Yelp, Google Places for Business, Yahoo Local, or Bing Business Portal are no ordinary online business directories.
How are Local Listings Different
A local business listing can be differentiated by an ordinary business directory by the type of business information you can list on it. For example as a minimum a local business listing will...
Submitting your business information on online business directories is one of the important steps in going online with your business. Business Directory Submissions will increase the visibility of your business on the internet and could have a positive impact on sales and customer interest. Here are 3 benefits of business directory submissions.
Increase your Online Visibility
Online business directory listings spread your business information all over the internet increasing your visibility and customer awareness. To take advantage of this benefit, you need to list your business in lots of online business directories not just one or two. The more business directories...
Submitting business information on online business directories is a fast and affordable way to increase the visibility of a business. A business directory lists information about businesses. If your business is not yet taking advantage of the online exposure offered by online business directories, you should include it as part of your online promotion. To help you get started, this article will list a few online business directories.
Business directories allow you submit a wide range of information about your business. The information you can add to your listing may include your business name, address, email, phone number, website, and...
A Business Directory lists information about businesses. Business Directories use various mediums to list business information, however since this article is about going online our focus will be on online business directories. Listing your business in an online business directory is a good strategy for increasing the online visibility of your business.
Increase Visibility with Directory Submission
Submitting your business information to business directories will increase the visibility of your business online. Consumers are increasingly looking for information online; business directory listings will populate the internet with reliable information about your business, giving you more exposure online.
Although business directory listings are...
Our Mini Web Design plan is an affordable web design package designed to give you more control of your online promotions and marketing. With the affordable Web Design plan you get the marketing tool you need to grow your business online.
The web design plan includes a blog, which you can update yourself with marketing and promotion information about your business, products, and services. Your blog can also help you build authority.
A blog is a great marketing tool for growing your business online. You can add new content on the blog yourself and respond to comments and questions from your...
A domain name registration service enables you easily add your domain name into one of the domain registries. The Domain Name Registration service create an interface that makes registering your domain name easy, while offering some other value added services.
There are many domain name registrars to choose from, so a lack of choice will never be a problem when it comes to registering a domain name for your business website.
Here we link you to some of the best domain name registration services in the world
Top Domain Name Registration Services
There are very many domain name registration services with very little...
You do not need to break a bank to own a website. As a micro or small business all you need is a website that enables you showcase your products and services online and makes it easy to drive sales to your business from the increasing number of consumers online.
Our starter web design plan is designed to meet your budget by offering you a cheap but professional looking website. For just ₦80,000 you can get a professional looking website designed for your online success.
Because we know that as a small or micro business, you are still growing we have...
Aside Web Hosting, a website needs a domain name which is the address through which visitors find it on the internet. It is through this address that your visitors access your business website or blog on the internet. You can buy or register a domain name through a domain name registration service in Nigeria or you can buy from any international domain name registrar.
One advantage of registering your domain with a Nigeria based domain registrar is that you can pay in Naira. Another is that you can register .ng domains like .com.ng and .ng.
When it comes to buying a...
Very few changes where witnessed in the cost of internet access in Nigeria for the first quarter of 2012. In our last report, we speculated that the cost of internet access could increase due to the over 100% hike in petrol prices. That did not happen. Prices have remained relatively the same throughout the quarter.
Perhaps Airtel gave us the highlight of the quarter with its introduction of 3.75G high speed internet in major towns and cities in Nigeria. The launch also witnessed the introduction of new internet bundles by Airtel. However, none of the new Airtel internet bundles particularly...
You can create a website with a website building tool (a.k.a. website authoring tool or website builder). These tools remove most of the complexities involved in creating a website, reducing your learning curve for web designing.
If you choose the path, you will not need advanced knowledge of web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. All you need is to familiarise yourself with the workings of the online website builder and you could be building professional looking websites in minutes. In this article, we will focus on free website builders.
You can also read: Best Website Builders.
Free website builders offer their...
Before building a website for your business, it is important to know the costs involved. This will ensure you budget adequately for the project. Some business owners think building a website is a one-off thing. You just build it, and you go to sleep. However, there are fixed costs and recurrent costs involved in building a business website.
So, here are a few items to add to your budget. However, it is important to note that the cost of building a website depends on the complexity of its implementation. For example, a simple 5-page business website will usually cost much...
NaijaTechGuide is now on Google Currents. If you own an Android phone or tablet or an iPhone or iPad, you can now read fresh editions of the NaijaTechGuide blog on your phone or tablet using the Google Currents app. Just Download the Google Currents app from Google Play or Apple App store and subscribe to NaijaTechGuide.
Google Currents is an app that enables you read online magazine editions of your favourite news sites and blogs on your mobile phone or tablet. Simply subscribe to an edition and Google Current will deliver freshest content from the website each time you open...
Google has now made Google Currents available to an international audience. Google Currents app for iOS and Android was launched in December, 2011 in the United States. But now Google is offering Currents, an app that enables readers easily access online magazine editions on their smartphones and tablets, globally.
Publishers outside the United States can now publish online editions of their blogs and websites on Google Currents. NaijaTechGuide is already on Google Currents.
The New Google Currents
The new version of Google Currents comes with two key features international support and quick dynamic sync. As part of its international support, Google Current...
Google has rolled out a new design for its social networking service, Google+. The new design is cleaner and easier to navigate. The new Google+ design looks great and could even make it less intimidating for new users. So, if you have been off Google+ for awhile, this is a great time to dive back in.
1. Click access to important sections
The new Google+ design has a navigation ribbon on the left side with buttons to your Google+ Home, Profile, Explore, Hangouts, Photos, etc. The navigation ribbon floats so that they are always visible no matter how much you scroll...
The Online work marketplace series featured a series of articles about opportunities available at online work markets for both freelancers and employers. With the increase in popularity and accessibility of the internet, online work marketplace is gaining in popularity.
More people are expected to work online in future as technology continues to improve. This page links to all articles in the online work marketplace series.
For online work opportunities, Visit Fiverr.
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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,...
