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Internet for all remains an impossible dream

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From satellites, to autonomous solar-powered drones, or balloons, there have been plenty of ideas recently on how to connect up the world. Facebook, Google, large international organisations, national governments, even Bono, have laid out ideas of a near future in which we are all hooked into the network

Facebook wants Africans to have free Internet

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At the end of this year, Facebook will launch a satellite into orbit to provide free access to the Internet to the African continent. Yes, really. But what is a social networking service doing mucking around with satellites? To be completely accurate, Facebook has partnered with

Facebook in African satellite Internet JV

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Facebook and the Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat have reached a deal to offer Internet access to underserviced areas in Africa – including South Africa – using the entire broadband payload of a

The cloud isn’t as robust as we think

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The computing cloud we have created supports much of our day-to-day office and leisure activity, from office e-mail to online shopping and sharing holiday photos. Even health, social care and government functions are moving towards digital delivery over the Internet

Facebook grows up

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the company is finally working on a much-desired feature: a “dislike” button. According to Zuckerberg, this feature has long been one of those most requested by the Facebook audience. Although his comments suggest

Instagram is SA’s fastest growing social network

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Facebook is now used by a quarter of all South Africans, while photo-sharing app Instagram – owned by Facebook — has seen the fastest growth of any social network in South Africa over the past year. This is according to a new study by World Wide Worx

No such thing as a free (data) lunch

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The greatest barrier to extending Internet use in South Africa, and indeed in most African countries, is the cost of data. In South Africa, 1GB of data on mobile networks – the only means of accessing the Internet for most – is R149 (prepaid). This means that for millions of people

What can Google do for South Africa?

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Walking through Google’s new offices in Bryanston in Johannesburg last week, I couldn’t help but get caught up in the excitement. Sure, there were bright colours and the contemporary office designs that Google is known for, meant to inspire the engineers hard at work day and night