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.
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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.
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Blogging is a very popular topic these days because it makes it easy for ordinary people to share their thoughts online. Here, I will guide you on how to start a blog and make money from it.
Blogging is also a great way to build a business. In fact, a couple of businesses started as a blog first. Some experts even recommend starting a blog first, building your reputation, and then launching your business.
Now, let's learn all about how to start a blog.
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Before boarding a flight, you have to check-in, after which you are given a boarding pass to enable you board the flight. Traditionally, check-in was done at the airport at the check-in counter of the airline. But with the advancement in technology, most notably ICT, airlines now have online check-in feature as part of their online airline booking platforms. Online check-in makes things easy for travelers and saves cost for airlines.
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For SEO, keywords are queries that web users type into the search bar when they want to find something online. So, when building or maintaining a site serious thought and effort should be put into keyword building and discovery. Hence Keyword research should be one of the first considerations when building or redesigning a website. This will ensure your website gets targeted traffic and attracts high quality visitors.
Keyword research will enable you discover queries that web users use when searching for your kind of product or service. By writing content on your website using those keywords, search engines will...
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.
Each device connected to a network using the internet protocol requires an IP address to communicate on the network. When IP version 4 was...
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.
NaijaTechGuide is ranking well in relevant keywords with over 75% of visitors coming via search engines.
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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.
The new address is shorter, faster to type, and easier to remember, all making it more user friendly. With the old web address naijatechguide achieved great heights posting over 600,000 peak monthly page views in 2011 and over 300,000 monthly page views. The new domain provides a more professional touch and helps...
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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Etisalat reduced the price of its 200MB internet browsing bundle from N1,600 to N1,000 and the 1.5GB bundle from...
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,...
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,...
