1.5% on Facebook are spammers

About 1.5 per cent out of the total 955 million users on Facebook may be spammers, thus undesirable users.

ITRealms findings shows that also, about 4.8 per cent are classified as duplicate accounts, 2.4 per cent ‘user-misclassified’ accounts, otherwise known as joke accounts or for pets.

Facebook has admitted that as many as 83 million of its users could be fake or inactive accounts, equivalent to almost one in ten of the site’s members.

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Google, ITU partner on free global technology statistics

 

The international Telecommunication Union (ITU) and global leader in search engine, Google, have agreed to work on free global technology statistics.

This partnership involves that ITU’s highly regarded telecommunication and information and communication technology (ICT) statistics are now available through the Google Public Data Explorer (PDE) at www.google.com/publicdata.

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Dimension Data Nigeria cart home three awards @ Microsoft World Partner confab'12

 

Awards: Graham Dinwoodie, Managing Director with Jide Agbaje, GM Microsoft Solutions 

and Ezekiel Egboye, GM Operations, all of Dimension Data Nigeria holding 

one each of the three awards won by company..

Dimension Data Nigeria returned home from the just concluded Microsoft World Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada with three of the awards.

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Nigerians to commemorate Software Freedom Day’12

Nigerians are gearing up for the commemoration of the 2012 Software Freedom Day with an event scheduled for September 10 to herald the global show on September 15.

Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. With over 200 teams in 60 countries participating, it is a fantastic event to get your schools and communities involved in.

Organisers urge Nigerians to join the event in their local communities to assist in making certain that freedoms are upheld by the technologies of tomorrow.

After-all, sustainable technologies pave the way for access to knowledge forever.

For more info, drop a mail: seun.ojedeji@gmail.com

 
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Nokia 808 PureView debuts in Lagos

Nokia West Africa, today in Lagos launched Nokia 808 PureView mobile phone with a 41MP sensor, Carl Zeiss lens camera with a PureView imaging technology and full High Definition (HD) video; connectivity - HDMI and DLNA outputs, NFC and Wi-Fi technology; Preloaded Nokia Maps, turn-by-turn satnav for over 100 countries navigations, while the 16GB of built-in memory, expandable to 32GB or 48GB.

At a glance: 4.0 inches; Display size is 169.0 g; Weight - 6.5 Hours Maximum 3G talk time, whereas it has 525.0 hours for the maximum 3G standby time. There are three available colours, namely white, black and wine.

• Start the tour here: http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/808pureview/

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Pierre Ouedraogo, bags Jonathan B. Postel Service Award’12

Pierre Ouedraogo

Paris-based Director of Digital Francophonie at Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Mr. Pierre Ouedraogo has been honoured with the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award for 2012.

The award is the Internet Society (ISOC) way of recognizing extensive works by the Internet professionals, while Mr. Ouedraogo’s was for his role in ensuring that Africans voices are heard on Internet issues at the global levels.

The prize presented as part of the Vancouver, Canada meeting of ISOC, scaled through the international award committee, comprised of former Jonathan B. Postel award winners, who were undivided over Mr. Ouedraogo’s role in the growth of the Internet in Africa and demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to training young engineers and participating in regional Internet organizations.

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Anne-Rachel Inné joins AFRINIC as COO

Anne-Rachel Inne

African Information and Communications Technology (ICT) diva, and the current Manager for Africa Liaison at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Ms Anne-Rachel Inné is to join the African Network Information Center (AFriNIC) as the chief operations officer (COO)
AfrNIC is the continental's regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa with its headquarters in Cybercity, Ebene, Mauritius.
Anne`s appointment takes effect from Wednesday, August 15, 2012 after over 14 years experience in the ICANN and internet community.


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Lakanu of NIM leads delegation to Airtel Nigeria

Chief Sales Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Inusa Bello; Chief Executive Officer and
Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Rajan Swaroop; Dr. UNO Uwaga (MNI),
Deputy President, Nigerian Institute of Management and M. O Lakanu,
Registrar/Chief Executive, NIM) during a courtesy visit of
officials of NIM to Airtel Nigeria, Thursday, in Lagos.

Senior officials of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), Thursday paid a courtesy visit to the management of Airtel Nigeria at its office located at Banana Island, Lagos.

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Jos team wins Airtel Rising Star final

Despite the security challenges facing the residents of Jos, their team in the 2012 Airtel Rising Star emerged victorious. This calls for celebration, abi!.
Their victory came after beating team Port Harcourt in the final match of the Airtel Rising Stars national tournament played at the Agege Township Stadium, Lagos recently.

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11 fellows to attend IETF meeting on ISOC

The Internet Society has announced it has awarded new and returning fellowships to 11 fellows to attend the Internet Engineering Task Force Meeting in Vancouver, meeting held 29 July – 3 August in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Internet Society awards fellowships to enable technologists from developing countries to participate in the IETF meetings. First-time fellows are paired with an experienced mentor and are given the opportunity to make a positive contribution to IETF work. The IETF, the Internet’s premier standards-making body, represents an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of Internet architecture.

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MTN rewards MyOffice customers with iPad3, Nokia Asha+

L-R; SME Segment Manager MTN, Mr. Sharaf Mohammed; Regional/SME Sales

Manager MTN, Mr. Leke Adekunle presenting Mr. Keku Daniel of Pahek
Security Service with a gift pack comprising of an Ipad3, GSM Wireless
Modem, Nokia Asha Phone and an MTN Lyte phone at MTN MyOffice customer
reward prize presentation ceremony which held at MTNs Head office in
Lagos, on Tuesday.

Photo 2: Shows Oyeleke Yetunde Iswat of
Ringier Media Nigeria receiving hers too.

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Galaxy Backbone to install 146 VSAT in tertiary schools

Galaxy Backbone is to install a total of 146 Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) in educational institutions in Nigeria, courtesy, the The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF).

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Vancouver’12: ISOC gives fellowship to 11 techies for IETF

A total of 11 fellowships have been awarded by the Internet Society (ISOC) for selected technologists to attend the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on-going meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

This group, ISOC said includes new awardees and returning fellowships to the internet engineers’ gathering holding between July 29 and 3 August, 2012.

ISOC explains that the fellowships were to enable technologists from developing countries to participate in the IETF meetings.

First-time fellows, officials said, are paired with an experienced mentor and are given the opportunity to make a positive contribution to IETF work.

Recalling that the IETF, the Internet’s premier standards-making body, represents an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers involved in the technical operation of the Internet and the continuing evolution of Internet architecture.

“The Internet Society has a long-standing commitment to encourage and support next–generation technical leaders from around the globe,” said Toral Cowieson, Senior Director of Internet Leadership at the Internet Society.

Toral also said that this round of IETF fellowships garnered more than 250 impressive applications from 65 countries, hence, ISOC was excited to help accelerate the careers of these professionals and to provide an opportunity for them to participate in and contribute to the important work of the IETF.

The first-time Internet Society IETF Fellows for the IETF 84 meeting include; Shabbir Ahmed (Bangladesh); Raitme Citterio (Venezuela); Xiaohong Deng (China); Omar Diaz (Venezuela); Paul Muchene (Kenya); Nomsa Muswai (Zimbabwe); Saurabh Srivastava (India);

The Returning Fellows for the 84th IETF meeting consist of Burmaa Baasansuren (Mongolia), Fernando Gont (Argentina), Vinayak Hegde (India), Dorcas Muthoni (Kenya).

The Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF in 2012 are made possible by donations from Internet Society Organization members Afilias, Google, Microsoft, SIDN, and Verisign. Since its inception in 2006, this programme has made 125 awards to technologists from more than 40 developing countries to participate in IETF meetings.

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NITDA dangles N20m grant for Out-Sourcing

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Monday in Lagos announced the availability of N20 million for an outsourcing group take off.
This is coming as a group to be known as Nigeria Association of IT enabled Out-sourcing Companies (NAITEOC) comes on stream.

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Insecurity forces CNSSL to shut MTN call centre in Jos

The spate of insecurity in the country, may have heightened Monday, with operators of MTN call centre in Jos, the CNSSL shutting the centre on security reasons.

The management of CNSSL in a press statement made available to ITRealms states “CNSSL regrets to announce the closing down of its call centre operation in Jos, Plateau State.”

ITRealms recalls that CNSSL had entered into a contract to operate and staff the Jos call centre on behalf of MTN Nigeria in July 2010, and has been doing exactly that until the recent closure.

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Airtel fulfills promise,brings Arsenal stars to Lagos for fans

Arsenal stars Per Mertesacker and Bacary Sagna with

Airtel COO Deepak Srivastava CMO Olu Akanmu

and Airtel Rising Stars players on Sunday in Lagos.

It was a dream fulfilling Sunday as selected fans of Arsenal Football Club of England have a life time opportunity of mingled with stars of the club, who are on visit to Nigeria, courtesy of Airtel Nigeria at the prestigeous Eko Hotel and Suites on Sunday, July 29. 

Some of the players present include Per Mertesacker, Lucas Podolski and Bacary Sagna. 

The Arsenal players also encouraged the five young talents discovered at the second edition of the Airtel Rising Stars (ARS). 

Noteworthy is that the ARS top-five will attend a football clinic at Arsenal Football Club as part of the deal between Arsenal and Airtel.

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