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Many companies ask if they should start a blog or have a blog on their site, if it is going to be beneficial to them.
Blogging is not only a great way to drive traffic to your site but is incredibly important in building your credibility and brand, helping you develop trust and affinity with your target audience. Blogging in Nigeria is gradually becoming a major means of disseminating information. And as the world comes closer and internet becomes prime source of information and news, blogs have become a popular entity. A blog is acting as a Public Relation Officer (PRO) of your company.
Read more: www.oshadami.com/2013/03/03/why-every-company-needs-a-business-blog/

A San Jose federal judge on Friday slashed about $450 million from the $1 billion award Apple won last August in its patent feud with electronics giant Samsung, the latest in a series of decisions weakening Apple’s legal assault on its smartphone and tablet rival.

The jury’s damages calculations were improper and excessive for more than a dozen of the Samsung devices it concluded had trampled on Apple’s patent rights, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh found, and she ordered a new trial on damages for those claims.

While the judge’s decision took a chunk out of Apple’s legal victory, the Cupertino tech giant is hardly walking away empty-handed. The judge let stand nearly $600 million in damages for the jury’s findings that Samsung infringed patents in more than a dozen other products, including some of the popular Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets.

Apple declined to comment on the decision. But the new trial on the damages could restore some of the $450 million Apple lost in Friday’s ruling.

Depending on how Koh proceeds on the new damages trial, her decision could put the legal battle in a position to move to the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the Washington, D.C.-based court that considers patent appeals.

In a statement, Samsung officials said they were pleased with the judge’s decision to reduce the damages, and the company plans to “seek further review” of the remaining $600 million judgment.



The Federal Circuit and Koh have rejected Apple’s bid to block sales of the Samsung phones and tablets at issue in the trial while the case proceeds, a blow in Apple’s bid to shut down its competitor’s use of what it considers stolen technology. Apple has another appeal pending on that issue in the Federal Circuit.

The jury concluded that Samsung’s older line of products, such as the Fascinate, Epic 4G and Galaxy S II smartphones, trampled on Apple’s design and technology patents. These patents ranged from the shape of the iPhone to its “pinch and zoom” features.

The two companies also are moving forward with a separate legal battle over Samsung’s newer line of smartphones, such as the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Tablet 10.1; Apple’s Siri voice and search function patents are one of the issues at the heart of that case. The case is set for trial in spring 2014, although Koh has tried to persuade the two companies to wait until the first case is resolved in the appeals courts.

Meanwhile, even as Apple and Samsung spar over those products, Samsung is expected this month to announce the release of its next line of smartphone, the Galaxy S4.

After viewing your blog, this is what I noticed:
1.the title, keywords and description tags are wrongly done (i guess ur current theme is the problem)
effect: people can not get to your website through search engines results cos your website will not come up.
2. backlinks, you need to get quality backlinks from website having good PR, except for nairaland there that has PR4.
3. share your news on website with high PR, google will do a follow for you. eg, nairaland, digg, StumbleUpon, pininteres, etc.
4. create unique content, Google don't like copy copy work.
5. Some images do not specify alternative text.
6. The website is not W3C compliant.( u are using this like <p bgcolor="#FF0000"> in the html page, replace them with CSS)
Improve on this....takia.

[quote author=Brand_new]Something like that already exists.[/quote]please where url

I really like fiverr.com website, the concept behind it, everything, but most people are having problems with the payment since they accept paypal only. I believe we can have a clone of it in Nigeria, Nigeria own fiverr, what do you guys think, instead of $10 ours will be ₦1000. or do we have something like that in Nigeria, maybe I don't know about it. Thanks, Indicate if you are interested in achieving this project with me.

I have been begging ihostafrica to let me transfer my domain name, I don't want their service again, is it by force.
i have about Five (5) websites hosted with them, I paid for one last year, that was activated after several months, all I need right now is to transfer my domains out of their systems, I sent mail to them, no reply, called and they are not picking....Nigeria host company, I have stop using Nigeria host companies since then, but I just need to transfer this one domain, I have let the other domains expire since to get to them is a headache, technical support is zero (0). IhostAfrica, plssssssssssssss.

I have the best wordpress theme for real estate companies, oshadami[dot]mj[at]gmail[dot]com

The truth is that SEO takes time, it includes backlinks, keyword research, article and PR submission. Google algorithm changes always, so an SEO method that works today may not work tomorrow, just to let you know, Google is trying to eliminate use of keywords because many people have been sent to wrong urls based on keywords. Hence if you don't understand how the algorithm works, your lost.
about 80% of web traffic starts from Search Engine, I wish I have opened my Blog to the Public, I might just have the answers to all your questions in my blog. all the best, post your URL, let me check it and provide recommendations for you, after this am gonna charge you. all the best.

Few weeks ago, a lot of Blackberry users were pre-ordering the new Z10 smartphone, mobile operators and phone dealers in Nigeria encourage people to pre-order the smartphone, most were charging 100K, except for Slot Nigeria & Parktelonline that were charging 98K for the phone. my question is, have you gotten the phone

Buy your Blackberry Z10 from Nigeria's Largest Online Mobile Phone Mart, for just 120K. Parktelonline Pre-Order was 98K which the phones have been delivered to the customers.
http://www./BlackBerry-Z10-Black

i have sent a mail to you.

Am a solution architect, let me provide a solution that will beat your competitors, drive traffic to your website and put your website on the first page of search engine results. 08067493797, oshadami[dot]mj@gmail[dot]com ,I'll need to work with your ecommerce web developer to ensure the system is well design for search engine. All the best.

My deal is only to Mr. Walcolm, others can pre - order by making a deposit of 20K, and pay the remaining fee of 78K at the point of collection, we are giving free phone for the 1st three to pre-order it (no more free phone), we just decided to add Mr. Walcolm to it. Thanks all.

Thanks for the order, we'll contact you when the phone is available, but you can stand a chance to win fantastic prices, see our promos by liking our facebook page. Thanks once again.

walcolm: you guys want people to pay you 20k for a phone you will sell at 12k less than your competitors. Sounds fishy to me and its even worse because you international company's physical address is otigba market in Ikeja

Hello Mr. Walcolm, thanks for the response, am offering you a deal, Go and pre-order the Z10, don't pay anything (select pay on delivery), when the phone arrives, I'll call you to come pick it up or we deliver to you at your doorstep (pay on delivery) + a free phone.
Mind you Parktelonline has an office in VI and Abuja as well, Parktelonline gave out an Android phone to the woman who predicted the outcome of the Nations cup final (first to predict correctly) on its facebook page, and also gave out a phone just this Monday to the winner of last week question still on its facebook page. You can read more @ www.blog./2013/02/14/parktelonline-facebook-predict-and-win-contest-winner-emerges/
What I want from you? When you receive the Z10 phone + the free phone, I want a testimony from you on this same page, accept my Deal?

walcolm: this is the first time i'm hearing of this company but they claim they have been around for 10yrs....if they have really been around that long i'm sure i would have heard of them and that makes me worried about pre-ordering from them

Parktel Internation Limited has been there for long, ParktetOnline is the online marketing arm of Parktel International Limited which started last year, we are committed in providing mobile devices at an unbeatable price for Nigerians, all our products have warranty on them.

walcolm: Parktel should go to h3ll. all the major networks and jumia are selling for 100k

only m.umus wil buy from you guys

The smartphone can also be pre-ordered at a price of ₦98,000 only and you a get a free phone worth ₦10,000 with it, Pay N20,000 non refundable deposit and balance of N78, 000 will be paid up at the point of collection, a free phone will be giving in addition to the Blackberry Z10.
Read more details on the blog sir.
The price for 150K are those that want it now, 98K pre-order, the companies you are referring to are charging 100K for pre-order.

Nigeria’s Largest online mobile phone mart – Parktelonline on its commitment to be the number one choice of Nigerians in the purchase of smartphones and tablets has slash the price of the Blackberry Z10 phone to ₦150,000.
Read more: www.blog./2013/02/19/parktelonline-slashes-prize-of-blackberry-z10-smartphone/

China one of the Asia country has overtaken the US as the world’s top market for smartphones and tablets running Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android operating system.
That’s the conclusion of a new report by Flurry Analytics on their blog, which tracks usage and device characteristics across a large number of mobile apps.
read more www.blog./2013/02/18/china-knocks-off-u-s-to-become-worlds-top-smartphone-and-tablet-device-market/

anyway for review process, the header needs to be improve upon, the background image is No NO. Other pages dont need to have the slide, a static image portraying that page should be designed, for instance the about us page should contain Graphic image about their team, the company,etc.Lastly you don't structure your web pages for SEO, you are only adding more money for me, cos when they"ll call me for SEO, I"ll charge them to structure the design for SEO before even charging them for the main SEO job.

@GreenMouse, Employ me as freelance technical consultant to be reviewing all your work and give you recommendations where necessary, no need to beg nairalanders to be reviewing your work always when they dont have a share in your profit.

Improve on the design, also make the design responsive to device and lastly work on the category and product url, the are not SEO friendly. Takia.

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New photos of Apple’s alleged ‘iPhone 5S’ have surfaced on a Chinese technology website, supposedly revealing that, just as the iPhone 4S looked basically identical to the iPhone 4, Apple’s newest upcoming iPhone model will look identical to the current flagship iPhone 5.

According to the rumor, Apple’s new iPhone 5S is already in production.

The photos, if real, were certainly hurriedly snapped by someone fearfully of being caught and are poor quality, but do show electronic calipers in almost every shot reveal relative size, apparently the same as the iPhone 5.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/11/iphone-5s-new-photos-of-apples-alleged-new-phone-surface/

Buy it online at http://www./Tecno-Cell-Phones/Tecno-N3

Predict the Nigeria Vs Mali game correctly and win an Android phone:
https://www.facebook.com/parktelonline/app_117049981714413