Google+ Social Network now Open to Teens
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...
SEO Service is Essential for Website Redesigns
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...
Mobile Banking your Bank on your Phone
Mobile Banking is a value added service offered by a bank to enable customers conveniently and securely conduct their banking transactions on their mobile phone. A mobile banking platform will enable you transfer funds and check your account balance and statement without having to visit your bank. You can also buy airtime and pay utility bills with your banking platform.
How does Mobile Banking work?
Depending on your bank, mobile banking services are offered mostly via a Java based application, SMS, and more recently mobile apps on the Windows, Android, and/or iOS platforms. Some banks will offer all options but others...
Going Cashless and Cash Lite in Nigeria: What are your E...
You must have heard about the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN by now. Well, if you have not, it is a policy aimed at reducing the volume of physical cash circulating in the Nigerian economy and encouraging e-payment options. Core to the cashless (more like cash-lite) policy is the introduction of daily bank deposit/withdrawal limits above which account holders pay huge transaction costs.
Most articles on the cashless policy so far have focused on either announcing the policy or highlighting the challenges facing it.
Very few have actually focused on what payment and transaction options are available...
Google+ now has over 90 million users
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 launches Open Graph Apps & Actions on Timeline
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...
Samsung Galaxy Tab Review Price Specs – Android Tablet
Samsung Galaxy Tab is the brand name for Samsung's general purpose Android tablets. Since the initial Galaxy Tab, Samsung has released different Galaxy Tab models with varying specs but differentiated primarily by their display size. The initial Galaxy Tab came with a 7-inch display, but subsequent generations have offered a wide-range screen sizes including 10.1-inch, 8.9-inch, 7.7-inch, 8.0-inch, 9.6-inch, 9.7-inch, and 12-inch.
Where to Buy Samsung Galaxy Tab
Jumia Nigeria – See Offers | Jumia Kenya – See Offers | Jumia Ghana – See Offers
If you are shopping for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, you will discover more information about the most...
World launches IPv6 new Internet Protocol on June 6 2012
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...
Wikipedia blacks out for 24 hrs over SOPA PIPA bills
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...
SEO Services from NaijaTechGuide to Increase Website Traffic
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.
So having recorded success on our own sites, we are now offering our SEO services to you to help you increase your website traffic.
You can contact us for all your Search Engine Optimisation needs. SEO services offered include:
Quick SEO Tips Service
...
SEO Site Audit increase Traffic to your Website
Our SEO site audit service takes a comprehensive look at your website focusing on how each factor that affects your search ranking is implemented on your website. An SEO site audit report is written and delivered to you. This report can serve as a blueprint for implementing SEO on your website or for developing an SEO strategy for your business.
In the SEO site audit service from naijatechguide, an SEO specialist will take a thorough look at your website and present an interesting and informative report on your website's SEO status. The report will show you how well all known...
Samsung Phones and Prices in Nigeria 2024
Samsung Galaxy Phones are the secret of Samsung's dominance in the smartphone market. Samsung Galaxy is the brand name of Samsung's line of Android Phones. Here you will find the Latest Samsung Phones and Prices in Nigeria.
Samsung Phones Price in Nigeria starts at around ₦122,000.
The success of the Samsung Phones is because there is one for everyone. From the high-end Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra priced at around ₦2,140,000 and ₦1,579,000 respectively to the entry mid-range Galaxy A15 starting at ₦223,000, to the low-end Galaxy A04e and Galaxy A05 priced at ₦130,900 and ₦122,700...
NaijaTechGuide Blog drops Blogspot Extension
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...
Nokia Lumia Phones Specs and Price – Windows Phone 8
Nokia Lumia are Microsoft's line of Windows Phone OS based Smartphones built by its Nokia Mobile Division. Windows Phone OS offers Nokia Lumia a more refined interface and a better user experience to make its Smartphones competitive with Android Phones and the iPhone.
Where to Buy Nokia Phones
Jumia.com.ng from ₦99,000.00 View Offers
You may also be interested in Latest Nokia Phones.
Nokia Lumia Smartphones offer a smooth performance. All Nokia Lumia Smartphones support only the smaller micro SIM with a few needing the even smaller Nano SIM, so do not expect your standard SIM to fit into a Lumia phone. You can...
Quick SEO Tips Service to Increase Website Traffic
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.
In our Quick SEO tips Service, an SEO expert will probe your website for such flaws and provide quick solutions for solving them.
At naijatechguide, we have been delivering great content for years and through practice have come to learn the art and science of SEO. NaijaTechGuide now...
JAMB Online Registration – JAMB defeating her aim
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.
Where to Buy JAMB UTME Practice Questions
Jumia.com.ng ₦2,500.00 View Offer
JAMB Result 2023
JAMB UTME Result 2012 Released. If your result is okay congrats, you should start preparing for Post UTME 2023.
Reports from various prospective UTME 2012 candidates suggest that one...
Cost of Internet Access in Nigeria January 2012
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.
Best Data Plans
Etisalat reduced the price of its 200MB internet browsing bundle from N1,600 to N1,000 and the 1.5GB bundle from...
Nokia Lumia 900 Specs & Price Windows Phone Smartphone
Nokia Lumia 900 is Nokia's latest Windows Phone Smartphone and its best yet. Announced at CES 2012 and winning the best of CES award in the smartphone category, Nokia Lumia 900 is bound for the US exclusive on the AT&T network. It will be the first Nokia phone to support super-fast 4G LTE (up to 50MBps downloads). Nokia Lumia 900 shares the same awesome polycarbonate unibody design of the Nokia N9 and Lumia 800 and boasts of a large 4.3-inch ClearBack AMOLED touchscreen.
Where to Buy Lumia Phones
Jumia.com.ngfrom ₦18,200.00 Buy Now
Konga.comfrom ₦19,950.00 Buy Now
A Stylish and Powerful Smartphone
Nokia Lumia 900...
Social Networking & IM Tops App usage for BlackBerry
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
Konga.com from...
SEO Increase Search Engine Traffic and Visitors
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...