Africa Needs Servers & Infrastructure, Not Money _

As far as growth and innovation in Technology is concerned, believe it or not, emerging market is still a huge force to reckon with, existing technology giants and startups will always look at Africa with it’s population of over 1 billion people as a completely new demographic for growth and sustenance which is why keeping an eye on Africa …

IPv6: When do you really need to switch?_zdnet

ANALYSIS – World IPv6 Day is here, and with it many ISPs, websites and manufacturers are now supporting IPv6, the next generation network protocol of the internet. For many users, though, the questions of what, when and why still await answers. Everyone in networking knows that they should be switching to IPv6. The Internet Engineering …

What the ‘Internet doomsday’ virus is and how to fix it

Thousands could lose access to the Internet on July 9 due to a virus, DNSChanger, that once infected approximately 4 million computers across the world. The Federal Bureau of Investigation first gave details about the virus last November, when it announced the arrest of the malware’s authors. The virus, as its name indicates, affected computers’ …

US Government decides to leave key Internet governance role with ICANN_itwire

The US Government has awarded ICANN a new contract to manage the Internet, ending six months of uncertainty after it refused to renew the previous contract, instead opting to give ICANN only a six month extension. Under the contract, awarded by the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), ICANN will continue …

DotAfrica amongst the top 50 most desired domains_aptantech

The ICANN latest reveal of the applications pending batching has shown a number of very crucial details of what the new domains system is like. The new system before batching presents new applications with the North Americas having the highest applications amounting to 911, Europe follows with 675, Asia pacific which already has one continental …

6 Issues & Challenges Faced by the New ICANN CEO_dotYou

Last week, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) introduced their new CEO, Fadi Chehade, at its 44nd meeting in Prague. Chehade brings extensive international experience in the technology sector, having most recently served as CEO of Vocado. Prior to this, he worked at IBM and CoreObjects as well as created successful start-ups …

Worldwide use of IPv6 increases, study shows_broadband-finder

The worldwide use of the internet’s new addressing system IPv6 has increased, findings from BT indicate. The broadband provider’s Diamond IP IPv6 Industry Survey discovered that 13 per cent of organisations have already rolled out the application across either part or all of their networks, marking a sharp rise from the five per cent that …