Tag Archives: Google

Nigeria: Good Humour at the President’s Expense

January 8, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

I have observed with some degree of amusement, the wave of criticism and outrage that greeted the ill-timed ignition of President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 political campaign machinery. The campaign message – One good term deserves another – is especially humorous. … read more »

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“How to Abort” Kenyans search trends on Google

December 13, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Queries on how to procure an abortion were among the most persistent searches by Kenyans, according to a Google report that analylised search trends this year. The Google Zeitgeist 2012 report, released Wednesday, shows the number one trending search in … read more »

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Google vs Doogle: Internet giant threatens to sue South African school dropout

November 15, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Internet giant Google is threatening to sue a 23-year-old school dropout after he set up a jobseekers website and named it Doogle. Lawyers working on behalf of the world’s largest search engine, worth an estimated £160bn, wrote to South African-based … read more »

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Ethiopian Airlines Receives Delivery of the Customized Q-400

October 2, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Ethiopian Airlines has taken delivery of the first of five new Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft featuring reconfigured cabins at the manufacturer’s Q400 assembly line at Downsview near Toronto. Based on customer feedback, Ethiopian Airlines asked the manufacturer to reconfigure the … read more »

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U.S. Media and the Untruth about Egypt’s Morsi

September 6, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Jeremy R. Hammond The U.S. media is, unsurprisingly, making their best effort to paint Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in a negative light, the general accusation being that he is attempting to usurp power and crackdown on dissent … read more »

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Google Nigeria

April 1, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

It being April Fool’s Day, we bring you now the best of the gags, pranks and outright lies flying around the internet. April Fool’s Delight

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Pakistani self immolates over school kit

April 1, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Peshwar – Police say a 13-year-old Pakistani boy who set himself on fire because his family could not afford to buy him a new school uniform has died. Police officer Zahir Shah said the boy, Kamran Khan, died on Saturday, … read more »

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Nelson Mandela mass digital archive goes online

March 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Thousands of documents, photographs and videos of Nelson Mandela have been placed online in a mass digital archive. The database was created by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Google, which transformed the documents into a searchable collection that … read more »

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Google to launch free ‘online hard drive’ storage system to take on rivals such as Dropbox

February 9, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Google is on the brink of launching an online storage service that will store large files online instead of in PC hard drives, according to insider reports. The service will be a rival to services such as Dropbox, a ‘cloud’ … read more »

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Google-Smeared; Pay to Slander On the Internet Search Giant

September 22, 2011 by benim

It is Pay To Play at Google and who ever pays the fee gets their listing first on Google’s search engine results and woe be to the victims if a slander ends up leading the page. Pay to play or … read more »

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Facebook unveils “smart lists”

September 15, 2011 by benim

Facebook unveiled a new feature called “smart lists” on Tuesday, giving its users an easier way to share photos, posts and updates with smaller groups of friends. The new function, which commences on Wednesday, borrows from the success of the … read more »

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Google+ grow with 25million users

August 3, 2011 by benim

Google’s new social network has attracted 25million users in a little over one month, making it the fastest website to reach that audience size. Since its launch in late June, Google+ has proved so popular that it is currently growing … read more »

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Why Isn’t South Sudan’s Map Online? It’s Complicated

July 12, 2011 by benim

While the United States, Russia, and the European Union have recognized the Republic of South Sudan, Google and Microsoft’s mapping programs, to date, have not. As of Monday morning, neither Google Maps nor Bing Maps had included the country on … read more »

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Egypt revolution hero to leave Google, set up NGO

April 24, 2011 by benim

Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who became the hero of the Egyptian revolution, on Sunday said he planned to take an extended break from the Internet giant to set up his own NGO in Egypt. “Decided to take a long … read more »

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Google blames software update for lost Gmail data

March 1, 2011 by benim

Google said today a storage software update was responsible for causing some Gmail users to lose access to their e-mail data and said full functionality would be restored soon. Some Gmail users–less than 0.02 percent actually affected, according to Google–complained … read more »

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Italian parliament rejects prosecutors’ search request in Berlusconi prostitution probe

February 3, 2011 by benim

ROME – The Italian parliament has rejected prosecutors’ request to search some of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s properties in a prostitution probe targeting him. Milan prosecutors allege Berlusconi paid for sex with a minor and then used his office to … read more »

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Silvio Berlusconi urges Italians to break the law not to pay TV licence after he is slammed on series of shows

January 30, 2011 by benim

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has urged Italians to break the law and not pay their TV licence following a series of shows that have slammed him. Berlusconi, 74, is facing allegations of sex with an underage prostitute, Karima El … read more »

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Silvio Berlusconi hit by drug allegations as well as sex claims

January 27, 2011 by benim

Marysthell García Polanco. Drugs were found in a flat allegedly provided to her by Berlusconi. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/EPA The scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi’s private life deepened today after drugs were mentioned in new evidence to Italy’s parliament. The new evidence … read more »

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Silvio Berlusconi had encounters with a second under-age showgirl

January 27, 2011 by benim

The Brazilian showgirl Iris Berardi (L). Nicole Minetti (R) became a councillor in Lombardy with Mr Berlusconi’s support Photo: FOTOGRAMMA The prime minister, 74, is already accused of paying for sex with a teenage nightclub dancer known as Ruby the Heartbreaker, … read more »

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You’re a buffoon: TV host’s rebuff to ranting Berlusconi who branded his programme a ‘whorehouse’

January 26, 2011 by benim

Sleaze-hit Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday showed the pressure was getting to him after he called a late night TV news show and traded insults with the presenter. Berlusconi is at the centre of a sex probe involving an … read more »

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Google’s Chrome browser gets do-not-track feature

January 24, 2011 by benim

Google just released a new extension for its Chrome browser that will make it easier to avoid ads on the Web. “Keep My Opt-Outs” stores the settings that users lodge with ad industry opt-out programs like the Network Advertising Initiative … read more »

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Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ‘paid TV weather girl £100,000′ according to bank records

January 24, 2011 by benim

‘No-interest loans’: Alessandra Sorcinelli A glamorous TV weather girl was paid more than £100,000 by Silvio Berlusconi after attending his infamous sex parties, it is claimed. Prosecutors have discovered bank records which show that he gave Alessandra Sorcinelli money last … read more »

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‘I had sex with Berlusconi’

January 23, 2011 by benim

The sex scandal engulfing Silvio Berlusconi deepened when, for the first time, one of the women named in a prostitution investigation admitted that she had sex with the prime minister. Maria Ester Garcia Polanco, 25, denied that she did so … read more »

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Google announces surprise shakeup as Larry Page takes on CEO role

January 21, 2011 by benim

Larry Page, Google’s co-founder, is taking over the reins at the search engine giant from long-time chief Eric Schmidt. In a surprise move Schmidt delivered the news as the company announced fourth-quarter profits that were far better than analysts had … read more »

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Female politician staged ‘lesbian’ sex shows for Berlusconi at ‘whorehouse’ parties, claim court papers

January 18, 2011 by benim

Woman accused of organising girls is former dental hygienist he met after marble statue attack – and persuaded to join his party Women paid to have sex with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi dressed in nurse and police uniforms and … read more »

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Berlusconi paid for sex with ‘many women’ at his home, prosecutors claim

January 18, 2011 by benim

Karima el-Mahroug, a Moroccan belly dancer, allegedly had sex with Silvio Berlusconi for money when she was 17, which is illegal under Italian law. Photograph: Reuters Silvio Berlusconi’s political career is once again in jeopardy after prosecutors today accused him … read more »

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Italy’s Scandal-Prone Berlusconi at Center of Prostitution Probe

January 17, 2011 by benim

A teenage Moroccan belly dancer is at the center of a widening probe into scandal-prone Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi — and prosecutors want to search the office of a Berlusconi associate who they believe paid prostitutes who slept with … read more »

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Facebook, Google join web future warning

January 16, 2011 by benim

Web addresses are likely to run out as soon as November and to raise public awareness Google and Facebook have decided to switch their websites to a new system for one day in June. Buzz up! On June 8, a … read more »

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Ivory Coast: The consequences for Africa’s other strongmen

January 13, 2011 by benim

President Laurent Gbagbo is not the only African leader who refuses to fade away. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP There are many reasons for being angry with Laurent Gbagbo, whose belligerence has thrust Ivory Coast back into the eye of the storm … read more »

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