In a recent interview with rt.com Mr Julian Assange the founder of wikileaks said “Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented”. But seriously he did not say webtrendsng.com is a spying machine but am very sure he must have read one of our blog posts . The transcript [...]
Intel Nigeria Limited has said it will boost employment opportunities this year through a range of new technologies, which includes hybrid devices that provide a combination of net books with the best of tablets. Intel Channel Field Sales Engineer, Mr. Femi Robinson, broke the news in Lagos while highlighting how the firm’s new initiatives can [...]
President of the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Mr. Titi Omo-Ettu, has said access to broadband Internet is a right that should not be denied Nigerians. Speaking at the 11 th Distinguished Electrical and Electronics Engineers Annual Lecture, Omo-Ettu said the ‘last man’ must have access not only to telephone, but to broadband [...]
Replacement for the failed Nigerian Communications Satellite, NIGCOMSAT1R, may go up to the orbit end of 2011. This date, according to the managers of the Satellite, Nigerian Communications Satellite Company Limited, NigComSAT Ltd, was given by the Chinese company, China Walls, handling the project. However, the company also revealed that the Nigerian government was putting [...]
Facebook and Bing have announced a partnership that will bring your social network to your Bing search results. When you search on Bing, while logged into Facebook, you’ll see your friends’ faces next to any results for pages they’ve “liked,” making it easier to spot results you might be interested in. Facebook will also factor [...]
Worried about logging into Facebook from a strange computer? There’s now a way to get into the popular social network without entering your regular Facebook password. It’s called a temporary password, and Facebook announced the new service on Tuesday. The idea is to make it “safer to use public computers in places like hotels, cafes [...]
Canonical delivered the latest version of its Ubuntu Linux distribution on October 10. Releasing Ubuntu 10.10 on 10/10/10 might seem an auspicious idea, but after the overhaul that was Ubuntu 10.04, the latest release looks tame by comparison. While there is little in Ubuntu 10.10 that will knock anyone’s socks, it makes for a solid [...]
Firefox is dumping Google search for Bing as its default search engine, says Robert Scoble in a tweet: Interesting tip just came in. Tomorrow @Mozilla will announce a search deal with @bing, which will be added to Firefox as default search. This is a big deal, considering that Firefox and Google have been blood brothers since [...]
The banning of SMS messaging in Mozambique is but one of several signs that both SMS and the Internet are changing the way media creates a national conversation in African countries. Governments can police SMS and the Internet by closing it down but this is a “nuclear” option that cannot be kept in place (except [...]
Cisco announced today that a Cisco TelePresenceTM meeting room has now been installed in its Lagos office. The Cisco TelePresence solution offers a live, face-to-face experience that enables people from different offices and cities around the world to meet virtually using the power of the network. This marks the second major deployment of the Cisco [...]
