The cable has landed
Once the Equiano cable becomes fully operational, it is expected to deliver up to 20 times more capacity than was previously available in Namibia.
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Keeping the Wi-Fi on when the lights go off ā the WiBox entrepreneursļæ¼
South Africans have been saddled with load-shedding and for those who want to stay connected to the internet, uninterrupted Wi-Fi is an issue.
š China wants manufacturing, not the internet – With insights from The Wall Street Journal
Even as Beijing unleashes a regulatory assault against tech companies, it continues to shower subsidies and protection on manufacturers.
Move over, Facebook: social media reform is on the way – and it may involve blockchain
Frank McCourt, the real estate mogul and former owner of the LA Dodgers, is pouring $100m into an attempt to rebuild the foundations of social media.
Africa’s largest data hub to be built in Jhb: Teraco invests R4bn
Teraco Data Environments is investing $250 million to build Africaās largest data centre on a single site in Johannesburg.
Internet data in a global minute
If youāre looking to invest in fourth industrial stocks, this image is a good place to start. It depicts what happens in an internet minute.
SA rushes to boost mobile spectrum, while ISPs upgrade internet speeds for free during lockdown
South African Internet Service Providers and fibre network operators are working together to upgrade internet speeds for free during the national lockdown.
Advice from Bill Gates on how to approach 2020
In his brilliantly prescient 1995 book The Road Ahead, Microsoft founder Bill Gates unpacked how the structure of the global economy would be transformed by a then fledgling invention called the Internet.
Employing ‘resource virtualisation’ to cut high data costs in South Africa ā The ConversationĀ
Researcher Clement Prince Addo suggests in this article that an approach called āresource virtualisationā could be used to lower the cost of bandwidth. Ā
Meet two nine year olds changing the world – one a “half Zulu”
The internet has disrupted much of everyday life. Including the speed at which our species learns, a natural consequence of how connectivity democratises information.