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Google says social network has 90M users
Monday, 23 Jan, 2012 – 10:36 | No Comment

Google CEO Larry Page announced that the company’s social network, Google+, is off to a strong start.

Google’s infant social network experienced a recent growth spurt.
Google+ has more than 90 million registered users, Google CEO …

Spelling mistakes ‘cost millions’ in lost online sales in the UK
Friday, 15 Jul, 2011 – 9:55 | No Comment

An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses.
Customer spending on a website can be cut in half by a spelling mistake, says an …

Web giants promote new IPv6 internet address system
Wednesday, 8 Jun, 2011 – 9:56 | No Comment

The biggest ever test of the internet’s new address system is taking place.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing and Facebook are among the companies switching-on IPv6 versions of their websites for the one day trial.
The …

Ghana ICT and Telecom Summit
Sunday, 3 Apr, 2011 – 17:24 | No Comment

Instinct Wave invite you to the 2011 Ghana ICT & Telecom Summit on 28th and 29th April, 2011. The occation would be held at the Kofi Annan ICT Center, Accra, Ghana.
Ghana ICT & Telecom Summit …

Use computer social networks for networking opportunities – Prof Quaynor
Sunday, 27 Feb, 2011 – 17:23 | No Comment

Accra, Feb. 26, GNA – Professor Nii Quaynor, Chairman of the Internet Society, ISOC Ghana Chapter, has called for more education on the uses and benefits of computer social network sites for the development of …

Price wars in East Africa – Safaricom and Orange Uganda CEOs on the pressures on operators
Friday, 18 Feb, 2011 – 14:45 | No Comment

Price wars are a now a fact of life in Africa’s competitive mobile markets and there few more competitive than East Africa. Lower prices are putting even established dominant mobile players like Safaricom under enormous …

Mobile network congestion to worsen unless there is growth in broadband – ITU
Wednesday, 16 Feb, 2011 – 12:05 | No Comment

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has warned that if action is not taken to fast-track the growth of mobile broadband, mobile phone users would face worsening network congestion.
The ITU says the current bad situation of …

Facebook U-turns on phone and address data sharing
Tuesday, 18 Jan, 2011 – 12:03 | No Comment

Facebook wants users to connect with website developers as well as friends
Facebook appears to have U-turned on plans to allow external websites to see users’ addresses and mobile phone numbers.
Security experts pointed out that such …

Going from shortage to abundance – strategies to target Africa’s broadband consumers
Tuesday, 11 Jan, 2011 – 9:24 | No Comment

2011 is the year that broadband will finally come into its own for Africa’s long-starved Internet users. Operators will need to have a complete mind-shift if they are to come out on top of the …

Broadband firms urged to block sex websites to protect children
Monday, 20 Dec, 2010 – 9:58 | No Comment

Ed Vaizey: wants to discuss changing the way pornography enters private homes.
Internet service providers are to be asked by the government to tighten up on website pornography to try to combat the early sexualisation of …