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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