Selecting the right web development company can make or break your online presence. With thousands of agencies promising exceptional results, finding a partner that truly delivers requires understanding what separates professional developers from amateur operations. The wrong choice costs more than just money—it wastes time, damages your brand reputation, and can set your business back months or even years.
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Embarking on the journey of web development can be both exciting and daunting, especially when deciding which tools and frameworks to utilize. Laravel, an open-source PHP framework, stands out for its elegant syntax, robust features, and an active community of developers.
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Twinpine is a Nigerian owned mobile advertising network that helps advertisers reach mobile audiences by enabling them display targeted ads on quality mobile sites and mobile apps. The publishers on whose websites and apps these ads are displayed earn a fraction of the advertising cost.
Twinpine currently serves advertising on top Nigerian mobile publishers in the categories of news, sports, business, entertainment, sport and social networking. Twinpine has delivered value to brands such as MTN, Pepsi, Autodesk, Jobberman and leading advertising agencies helping them achieve their marketing goals with impressive results to show for it.
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BlackBerry Complete is a stripped down BIS plan. It comes at a cheaper price, but with some tradeoffs. BlackBerry Complete is available in Nigeria on Glo, MTN, Etisalat, and Airtel. It is one of the cheap BlackBerry Plans in Nigeria aimed at making the cost of using a BlackBerry Phone cheaper. BlackBerry Complete is an entry level service targeted at ordinary users and student. Users with more demand are better-off staying with the full BIS service.
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All this while Google+ has been open to only people 18 years and above. But on January 26, 2012 Google+ amended its rules to allow people 13 years and above to join the social networking site. So for the first time all teens can join Google+ officially. To ensure that teens are protected online Google+ offers enhanced privacy features for teens.
That Google+ is opening its doors to all teens does not mean teens have not been using the social networking site. After all they can raise their age to join. However, Google by these changes to its rules is...
Are you planning to redesign your website? Have you spared some thought for Search Engine Optimisation, SEO. Website redesigns often result in changes in structure, content, and layout of your website. These changes can negatively impact on your search traffic, which is bad for business. Hence an SEO service should not be an afterthought during website redesigns but should even precede it.
SEO should precede the process of website redesign, but some website owners wait until after the redesign or if something goes wrong to bring in SEO services. Once the idea to redesign a website pops up, an SEO...
Google+, Google’s own social networking service, now boasts of over 90 million users. This is more than 100% the number of users on the social networking site just three months ago. This information was made available by Google's CEO Larry Page, while announcing the company’s fourth quarter 2011 results.
According to the result, Google made $10.58 billion in revenue, the first time the company is exceeding the $10 billion mark in a quarter in its history. However, Google's earnings fell short of analysts' expectations leading to a 9% drop in the value of its shares on announcement of the results....
Facebook has launched its open graph apps service that will allow an enhanced social engagement for its over 800 million users. Open graph actions allow users share their activities outside Facebook on their Timeline on the social networking site. The Facebook open graph apps platform will enable third party developers build Facebook apps that will share user activities on their site on Facebook.
At the launch, Facebook added 60 new partners to the Open Graph platform. In the list are Yahoo!, eBay, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, Ticket Monster, Kobo, etc. This means that your activities on these sites can be shared on...
The existing Internet Protocol system, IPv4 supports a maximum of about 4.3 billion IP addresses. As large as this number may look, experts say we will run out of IP addresses soon if a new system that allows for a lot more IP addresses is not implemented on the Internet. The Internet Society has just announced that the IPv6 the next generation Internet Protocol that will do just that will be launched on June 6, 2012.
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For 24 hours Wikipedia, the popular free online encyclopedia, will blackout its English version to protest the controversial US bill Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and Protect Intellectual Property Act PIPA. During the blackout period visitors to Wikipedia will see a black page with a bold white text that says Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge, instead of the article they intend to access.
According to Wikipedia, this blackout is aimed at raising awareness about SOPA and PIPA, two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively that could negatively change the internet as...
Through research, extensive reading, experimentation and practice we have learnt the art and science of SEO at NaijaTechGuide. Using our knowledge over the years, we have been able to build NaijaTechGuide to over 1,000,000 monthly page views, with even bigger targets for 2022.
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After 5 years of delivering top class technology information, Nigeria Technology Guide, a leading tech blog in Nigeria has dropped the .blogpot extension. Now Nigeria Technology Guide blog can be accessed in a more user friendly address at www.naijatechguide.com. So, no need for typing the longer naijatechguide.blogspot.com anymore.
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It has been shown that there are a number of common SEO flaws that hinder the search engine performance of most websites that rank low on search engine result pages (SERPs). It has also been shown that correcting these simple SEO flaws could have great impact on the search performance of a website.
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When a couple of years ago JAMB introduced online registration for its then UME examination, a lot of Nigerians were happy. This was because JAMB online registration made it easy and convenient to register for JAMB examinations. That is why we think that the requirement by JAMB from 2012 that UTME registration can only be done at accredited centres is unfortunate.
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JAMB UTME Result 2012 Released. If your result is okay congrats, you should start preparing for Post UTME 2023.
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The price of monthly internet access remained largely the same in the last quarter of 2011 except for a few changes by some operators. In our last cost of internet access report, we noted that Glo’s price advantage was being challenged, the trend continued in Q4, 2011, especially in the high data segment the culprit this time being Swift Networks. Etisalat, perhaps responding to our call, revamped their low and mid-range internet bundles for better competiveness in the segment.
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For BlackBerry users in Nigeria, Social networking and instant messaging apps were by far their most frequently used apps. This is according to a non-scientific survey we conducted on our Facebook fan page in December, 2011 where we asked mobile users of different platforms to list 3 of their most frequently used apps. While, the competition was respectable between Social networking/IM apps and mobile browser apps on other platforms, users of Blackberry phones were a lot more pro social with social/IM apps having 79.9% popularity, leaving browsers with just 10.8%.Where to Buy BlackBerry PhonesJumia.com.ng from ₦22,000.00 Buy Now
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Search Engine Optimisation or SEO for short are techniques used to increase search engine traffic to a website or blog. Through several researches, reports, and case studies it has been shown that websites that get large search engine traffic on the internet have certain characteristics.
The job of SEO is to refine a given website or blog's makeup to conform to those best practices without undermining user experience, so as to attract visitors from search engines like Google, Bing, and Yandex.
By following these SEO best practices a website or blog can improve their search engine performance and increase traffic. It’s...
Social networking and instant messaging are the most popular apps used by mobile subscribers in Nigeria. This is according to a non-scientific survey we conducted on our Facebook fan page recently. Social networking and instant messaging apps with a popularity score of 45.3% beat mobile browsers (31.1%) to second place. However, the Opera mini/mobile browsers were the single most popular app for mobile subscribers in Nigeria.
The survey requested our fans on Facebook and Twitter to list their 3 most frequently used mobile apps. It focused on mobile subscribers running BlackBerry, Android, Symbian, and Nokia Series 40. In all platforms,...
SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act, it is a piece of legislation in the United States House of Representatives and as the name implies and according to proponents will make life difficult for businesses that thrive on online distribution of copyrighted intellectual property and promote innovation and creativity on the internet.
Opponents of the bill, claim the name is misleading, in fact some have called it the Internet Censorship bill, while some others have referred to it as United States' version of the Chinese firewall.
SOPA gives sweeping powers to the United States Department of Justice to take action against...
BlackBerry Bold 9790 (Bold 6) is less premium compared to the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and features a more stylish and compact design. The Bold 6 shares a lot of features with BB Bold 9900, but comes at a cheaper price making it very attractive for consumers on budget.
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Here are a few specs of the BlackBerry Bold 9790:
Status: Available Since December, 2011
BlackBerry 7.0 OS
Weight: 107g
Dimensions: 110 x 60 x 11.4 mm
2.45-inch Display (480 x 360 pixels, 245ppi)
Physical QWERTY Keyboard with optical trackpad
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Artists, from musicians to filmmakers, can promote themselves with just the click of the mouse. Unfortunately there is no way to send a thank you card to the Internet, but artists worldwide are grateful to have this powerful tool at their disposal. By harnessing technology while connected to Internet providers, artists can sell themselves and their work without the hassle involved in record labels, studios, or corporations. The do-it-yourself strategy, inherent in the Internet and social networking, is proving to be an attractive marketing option for musicians.(Courtesy of Flickr User: isfullofcrap)
Digital music is a burgeoning market. Anyone can...
You need the best marketing automation software to scale your business fast and convert more leads to customers.
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Content marketing is now a crucial part of the marketing campaign of most successful businesses. With the best content marketing tools you can supercharge...
