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1 Feb 2012 22:12 Africa/Lagos Fans Crash Servers for Early Preview Screenings of "TITANIC" in 3D SELL-OUT CROWDS IN THE U.S. AND ACROSS THE WORLD WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST AUDIENCES ANYWHERE TO SEE THE RE-MASTERED MOVIE ON VALENTINES DAY, FEBRUARY 14th, IN ADVANCE OF THE FILM'S WORLDWIDE RE-RELEASE ON APRIL 6th HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fans the world over rushed the web in the last 24-hours - crashing multiple servers in the process - to secure advance tickets for the now sold-out February 14th preview screenings of TITANIC in 3D, Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox International jointly announced today. In a matter of hours, sell-out screenings were reported throughout the United States and in countries around the world, following the launch of the special screening program on January 31st. Moviegoers who were lucky enough to secure a seat will now be among the first people anywhere to see the newly re-mastered TITANIC in 3D, in advance of t...

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) The internet has been slow since Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. Steve Jobs came and gave the people an Apple that changed the world of modern science and technology and he gave us the iPod, iPhone and iPad and other great things he was still thinking of giving us. I thank The Almighty God for using Steve Jobs to make us develop faster in many ways. May his great soul rest in peace. About Steve Jobs Releases displayed in Africa/Lagos time 6 Oct 2011 04:41 A statement from Nadir Mohamed, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rogers Communications regarding the passing of Steve Jobs. ...

Study Shows Double-Digit Growth of Local Search in Online Portals and Internet Yellow Pages Brand Recognition and Reputation Drive 58% of Local Business Searchers to Choose Internet Yellow Pages Sites First Mobile App for Local Content Grows 34%, Taking Share From Mobile Browsers & SMS PR Newswire BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., July 19, 2011 BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As online search activity continues to grow in usage and intensity, new data show local searches now account for 13 percent of all core search activity on top web search portals as of January 2011. Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) and local search sites also exhibited strong growth with 5.6 billion local searches in 2010, a 15 percent increase over 2009. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110719/NY37687-a ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110719/NY37687-b ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110719/NY37687-c ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110418/NY84627LO...

Photo Credit: The Mobile Marketer 15 Jun 2011 11:04 Africa/Lagos Distracted TV Viewers Most Americans surf online while watching TV and many people do other activities as well PR Newswire NEW YORK, June 15, 2011 NEW YORK, June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The invention of the DVR system presented a hurdle for television advertisers, as they worried their valued audience would fast-forward through their messages. While those concerns may have merit, a recent Adweek/Harris Poll shows that regardless of the ability to use a DVR system, Americans may not be giving their undivided attention to their TV screens. According to the recent survey, while watching TV most Americans also surf the Internet (56%) and many do other activities like read a book, magazine or newspaper (44%), go on a social networking site (40%) or text on their mobile phone (37%). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100517/NY06256LOGO ) These are some of the findings of a recent Adweek/ Harris Poll survey of 2,309 ...

The Internet is ruled by Amazon , Google , Apple and Facebook . ~ Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman

29 Apr 2011 16:34 Africa/Lagos Most Americans Not Willing to Pay to Read News Content Online Even fewer than said they would pay 15 months ago PR Newswire NEW YORK, April 29, 2011 NEW YORK, April 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses explore best practices for success in the changing landscape created by the Internet, some companies have discussed charging for access to online content that was previously free. Some media outlets have discussed doing this, and The New York Times recently began charging online readers who view over 20 articles per month. But there may be trouble ahead as a recent Adweek/Harris Poll found that a large majority said they would be willing to pay "nothing" per month to read a daily newspaper's content online (80%). Of the one in five who would pay, 14% said they would pay between $1 and $10 per month while very few said that they would be willing to pay between $11 and $20 (4%) or more than $20 per month (2%). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswi...

29 Mar 2011 08:00 Africa/Lagos 7 out of 10 Teachers Think the Internet Could Help Improve Communication With Parents BERGEN, Germany, March 29, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- 71% of teachers feel that a secure internet 'parent portal',where parents could see details about their child's schooling, would improve school-to-parent communication,according to a survey of 5805 teachers released today by leading educational ICT provider itslearning (http://www.itslearning.eu). In the survey of teachers in France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, 75% of teachers also rated parental engagement as either 'important' or 'very important' for the success of a child's education. However, 44% said they didn't have the time or means to communicate with parents as much as they would like. "Teachers agree that involving parents is critical,but they aren't able to communicate with parents effectively," says Morten Fahlvik,Research Manager at itslearning. ...

Nigerian Internet Scammers Now Operate From Homes To escape from the long arms of the law, the notorious Nigerian Internet scammers, popularly known as ‘Yahoo -Yahoo!’ have moved from cyber cafes to the privacy of their homes. After an investigation by a reliable news reporter who visited Lagos in the last week of June, he found out that the “Yahoo -Yahoo!” boys have gone underground since the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) swooped on the cyber cafes frequented by the Internet scammers. They now use laptops to contact their ignorant targets in the United States and other developed countries. The successful “Yahoo -Yahoo!” guys are well known on the campus of the University of Lagos in South western Nigeria, where they cruise about with their fair-weather girlfriends in their flashy cars and bling bling fashion, while their admirers and hangers-on cheer them on. “There is always a greedy Maga online who will fall for any of their various methods of Internet s...

13 May 2008 16:16 Africa/Lagos One in Five U.S. Households has Never Used E-mail New Survey Finds Substantial Number of Households Not Crossed the Digital Divide DALLAS, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. heads-of-household have never used e-mail, according to National Technology Scan, a forthcoming study from Parks Associates. This annual phone survey of U.S. households found 20 million households are without Internet access, approximately 18% of all U.S. households. "Nearly one out of three household heads has never used a computer to create a document," said John Barrett, director, research, Parks Associates. "These data underscore the significant digital divide between the connected majority and the unconnected minority that rarely, if ever, uses a computer." Age and education are factors in this divide. One-half of those who have never used e-mail are over 65, and 56 percent had no schooling beyond high school. National Technology Scan found j...

23 Nov 2007 12:00 Africa/Lagos China Leads the US in Digital Self-Expression IAC and JWT study reveals new means of expression for China's Tech-Savvy Youth NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Millions of young Chinese are embracing the Internet as a discreet space for their thoughts and emotions, according to a survey of Chinese and American youth released today by IAC, which operates businesses in sectors being transformed by the Internet, and JWT, the fourth largest advertising agency network in the world. The findings show how readily young Chinese are taking to the Internet and its possibilities-for example, almost five times as many Chinese as American respondents said they have a parallel life online (61 percent vs. 13 percent). And while fewer than half of the 1,079 American respondents agreed that "I live some of my life online" (42 percent), a sizable majority of the 1,104 Chinese respondents agreed with the statement (86 percent). The two random online s...

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The Nigerian Super Blog is a network of Nigerian blogs with over 197 blogs so far and this number will increase as new blog feeds are added daily. The preview version of The Nigerian Super Blog was launched on the 1st of July 2007 and the site is still very much in active development. Check it out NOW!

Suddenly more Nigerian babes and ladies are blogging and making the Nigerian blogosphere sizzling with hot posts. And they are attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. Most of their blogs are what I call scuttlebutt blogs or daily social gist and tidbits blogs. And Bella Naija leads the pack, followed by Linda Ikeji and company. Adaure is still in a world of her own, because she is like the Oprah Winfrey of the Nigerian blogosphere in her subject matters. Queen Ebong and others are still exciting and thrilling. The most profiled Nigerian female blogger still remains Sokari Ekine of Black Looks. . And Funmi Iyanda would be more enlightened if she spends some quality time with Sokari. There are Nigerian female bloggers as young as 11. Two of them have left comments on Nigerian Times since 2005. There are over 400 Nigerian bloggers and quite a small number for a nation of over 140 million people. Even South Africa and Kenya have more bloggers than Nigeria. There are over 5 mill...