SA Geek Gods Competition part 1: Get voting!
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by Jake.
Recently I mentioned that the Geek Gods section of this blog is going through some changes. Rather than focusing on famous international geeks, the Linus Torvalds and Steve Wozniacks of this world, we will be taking it local, because this is after all a South African Blog, and its time for the local geek gods [...]
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MWeb takes off their cap
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Jake.
Just after my post on how broadband is growing at an exponential rate in South Africa I received word that MWeb is going to start offering the same thing that people all over most of the world have had for ages already – fully uncapped broadband. I think we are one of only a few [...]
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SA: Land of expanding Broadband
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Jake.
According to a great article I read today on news.24, the amount of South Africans accessing the internet has increased by 50 percent in the past year. So, while we are still a country with a relatively small amount of internet activity, this is changing at a rapid rate.
It says:
“The Internet Access in [...]
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Domain men
Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by Jake.
The first ever dotcom domain is celebrating its 25th birthday, as explained by an article on http://SeekBroadband.
On March 15th 1985, a computer systems firm called Symbolics, which made software based on MIT research, registered the first dotcom domain name: Symbolics.com, with registration firm Network Solutions. Neither Symbolics nor Network Solutions exist independently any more and [...]
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Microsoft’s new technology for schools
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Jake.
So Microsoft, for all the flack open source dev dudes and Apple fans give them, are involved with some pretty awesome social upliftment schemes.
They have now released a product which they bill as a “simple and affordable technology for schools that allows several students to work a single computer at the same time – [...]
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