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,...
One of the features provided by Facebook to enable marketers promote their businesses and brands on the new Timeline for fan pages is the ability to pin a post to the top. Pinning a post to the top on Facebook Timeline is a good way of highlighting an important post that you want visitors to your fan page to see. This feature is not available for personal profiles.
When you pin a post, a copy of it goes to the top of your timeline, just below the update form irrespective of its current order on your timeline. Posts pinned...
Facebook Timeline is not just for personal profiles, business and fan pages will also be getting Facebook Timeline. In fact, by March 31, 2012 all business and fan pages on Facebook will be on Timeline whether they want it or not. Facebook Timeline for personal profiles and pages share a lot in common but there are a few differences.
To get the new Timeline follow the alert on top of your page next time you login to your business page. Facebook have rested important marketing features of pages like the default page landing on the new Facebook Timeline but...
Facebook Timeline makes it easy for you to share your life story online. It is an online scrapbook of important milestones in your life. But what use is a scrapbook if there are a lot of missing pieces? Most of us were already born long before Facebook was conceived so some important events in our lives have already happened before Facebook was created, leaving us with lots of gaps on our Facebook Timeline.
If you feel the need to have a comprehensive online scrapbook with no missing pieces, Facebook offers the Life Event tab to enable you add important...
Earlier in this series, I showed you how to highlight and hide posts on Facebook Timeline. I also showed you how to unhide posts from your Timeline. However, while writing this series about Facebook Timeline, I have come to discover an even faster way of editing and formatting posts on your Timeline. This new method is not only fast, but will even saves you valuable bandwidth.
Editing Timeline through Activity log is faster
Yes, the fastest way to hide, unhide, or highlight posts on your Timeline is through your Facebook activity log. The Facebook activity log provides a summary of...
The new Facebook Timeline moved your tabs from its previous position on the left sidebar of your Facebook wall to the top, just below your cover photo. The Facebook Tabs are now larger and their new location makes them more prominent, making them more noticeable. The only problem is that only four tabs can be shown at a time, with the rest hidden.
This means that if you have more than four active tabs you may need to rearrange them to ensure that the most important ones show up on your Facebook Timeline.
How to Rearrange or reorder Facebook Tabs
Here is...
In this article, you will find all the Best Airtel Data Plans, their access/activation codes, and prices. We have done thorough research to help you get the best value for your money. Airtel offers 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G internet services in Nigeria. Here we have compiled a list of all the best Airtel Data Plans, the subscription codes for activating them, and their prices. You will find codes and prices for Airtel monthly data plans as well as weekly, daily, and unlimited data plans.
Airtel network supports super fast 5G and 4G LTE on LTE band 3 (1800 MHz)....
The new Facebook Timeline enables you hide posts that you do not want others to see on your timeline. But what if you change your mind and want to restore a previously hidden post. This article, which is part of our Facebook Timeline series, will show you how to unhide a hidden post on your Timeline.
How to unhide a post
When you hide a post on your timeline, Facebook places an indication or story that says This story is now hidden from your timeline with an undo button to the right. If you change your mind immediately, you can simply...
The new Facebook Timeline makes managing your profile a lot easy. It offers you a larger area to work with and enables you highlight and hide your posts. So, with Facebook Timeline, you can show-off some posts and hide others. In case, you have not figured out how to highlight and hide posts on your Timeline yet, I will show you how in this post.
Add or Remove Post Highlight on Timeline
Highlighting a post on your Facebook Timeline will expand its width. Instead of occupying one column on your timeline, a highlighted post will expand to occupy your full...
One of the first tasks you may want to perform after getting Facebook Timeline is to remove or hide all previous posts that you do not want others to see. Like I stated in the introductory post in this Facebook Timeline series, timeline makes it a lot easy for people to find older posts on your profile.
So the only way to ensure no one finds those embarrassing updates, photos, or videos is to hide or delete them before publishing your Facebook timeline. Note that your timeline will publish automatically 7 days after your first preview. So, make sure you...
In my earlier post on how to add a Facebook cover photo to your Facebook Timeline, I told you that making a normal photo fit as a cover photo on Facebook Timeline is very hard. If you have attempted adding your own cover photo, you must have faced similar challenges. So, we will see some of your options for making a good cover photo for your timeline.
Upload a photo and drag
Facebook enable you drag a photo into position before saving it as a cover photo. This ensures that all the part of the photo you want seen are visible...
The new Facebook Timeline enables you add a large photo to your timeline called to cover photo. Your cover photo is displayed on top of your Facebook Timeline with your profile photo hanging on the bottom left of the cover photo. Your cover photo will be the first eye catcher for viewers of your Facebook Timeline, so it is a good idea to add one.
How to add a Cover Photo
Your cover photo is likely to be the first item you will like to add to your Facebook Timeline. It will make your Timeline more interesting. Your cover photo should...
Do you want to make money on the internet sharing your knowledge and insight? Do you want to develop an online voice that will bring you recognition and fame? Are you ready to learn how? My new e-book Blogging for Students will teach you how to blog, build your reputation and traffic, and how to make money from your reputation and traffic.
This e-book is no-longer available for sale. So, there is no point reading from here on. However, if you are still interested in blogging our article on how to start a blog can be very helpful.
Climbing the mounting...
Facebook is currently rolling out Timeline, the replacement for the Facebook wall. The Facebook Timeline makes it easy for you and your friends to see your life story or at least the ones you make available online. With Facebook Timeline you can go back as far as the very first post you made on Facebook and you can add more to build a comprehensive life story of yourself.
Facebook Timeline vs Wall
The jury is out early on the new Timeline feature with most respondents to our poll on which they prefer Facebook Timeline or Wall favouring the Facebook wall. However...
Online classified Ads are important advertising solutions for micro, small, and medium scale businesses. This is because they are a free advertising solution for businesses with a huge user base of people looking for cheap local deals online. We have written a series of interesting articles on free online classified ads. This page is an anchor page for all the classified Ads resources.
Classified Ads Series
Post and Find Classified Ads on Mobile phone via SMS
3 Ways to Search Classified Ads Sites
9 tips for Posting great Classified Ads Online
How to Post Free Classified Ads
Post Free Classified...
Google Trader is a classified site offered by Google in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Google Trader, like other classified Ads sites, enables users to buy or sell products and services online. However, the uniqueness of Google Traders is that users can find and post classified Ads using SMS on their mobile phone. Currently Google Trader SMS service is available on MTN and Airtel in Nigeria.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
How to post Ads with SMS
To post classified Ads on Google Trader via SMS, you must register for Google Trader on your mobile phone. To...
Are you looking for cheap local deals for a product or service? Classified Ads are a good option. You can simply search for local deals online at classified ads sites. However, because online classifieds are free they attract lots of ads, making it hard for you to find what you are looking for. In this post, I will show you 3 ways of finding the product or service you are looking for.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
1. Use the Category Links
Classified Ads are all about classification. This means that each classified Ad is added to...
Classified Ads are cheap advertising solutions for promoting a product or service. They are very attractive to small businesses and with free classified ads posting now available online, even individuals are now selling directly through classified Ads. This leads to thousands of Ads daily all competing against each other, meaning that each advertiser needs to do more to get noticed. Here are 9 tips to help you post classified Ads that will get noticed by web user as well as bring search engine visitors to your Ad.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
1. Write an Inviting...
Classified Ads sites enable individuals and businesses to post free ads online. They offer a cheap advertising solution for micro, small, and medium scale businesses, enabling them promote their businesses online with their slim budgets. However, to get good result, you need to know how to post a classified Ad on online Classifieds.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
Classified Ads sites make it easy for buyers to find sellers. Sellers get a cost effective advertising solution, while buyers get easy access to cheap local deals.
Guidelines for Posting Classifieds
When advertising on Classified Ads sites you need to...
Classifieds are adverts that are displayed in categories (i.e are classified into groups). The groups may have headings such as Jobs, For Sale, For Rent, Automobile, Services, etc. Each Ad in classifieds is placed under a heading that best describes the product or service that is being advertised. Classified Ads used to be printed only in newspapers and magazines, but with the advent of the internet, free classified Ads sites are now available online.
This post is part of a free classified Ads series.
One of the major attractions of classified Ads is that they offer cheap advertising to micro, small...
Lagos List is an information portal offering a free online business directory and classified Ads listings. Lagos List also offers information about businesses and services in Lagos. Its focus is to help businesses and organisations in Lagos promote their products and services on the internet.
Any business or organisation in Lagos can list their business and services free on the online business directory. Individuals and businesses can also post classified Ads free on the Lagos List Classifieds. There is also a forum for interaction.
Lagos List Free Business Directory
The Lagos List Business Directory allows anyone to list contact and business information...
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,...
