“Almost all African countries are in the process of connecting up to the glass fiber optic network,” Badiel told DW. “Data transmission via fiber optics is far better than the old microwave system they used to have,” he said. Read More
Speaking to The Times of Israel about the new initiative, park owner Menachem Goldberg said he was keen to give visitors the chance to upload photos and post tweets about their experience at the Village of Yore in real time – while being carried around on one of the park’s donkeys. Read more:
If you type “mobile money” into Google you will be served reams of articles about its runaway success in Africa. That’s great PR for a continent used to bad press, but there is a problem. Mobile money has only really taken off in one country out of 55 on the continent. Read More
The China Internet Network Information Center, registry for the .cn domain, has announced the launch of the new .china (.中 国) Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) extension. Sunrise Phase 1 for the .中 国 IDN will begin this Saturday, September 15, 2012, and is open to trademark holders. Read More
Cybercriminals “are out to get you,” said Richard DominguesBoscovich, assistant general counsel for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit. “They will do whatever it takes. If the supply chain is how they’re going on get on [computers], that’s what they’re going to do.” Read More
Information Technology firms are warning of increased cyber-attack should the Government move to ditch copyrighted software. Last week, the Government issued a warning that in the next three years it will move its IT operations to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Read More
The Durban Internet Exchange (Dinx), located at data centre operator Teraco’s Riverhorse Valley facility, joins the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx) and the Cape Town Internet Exchange (Cinx) as the third dedicated exchange in SA to go live. Read More
A recent analysis by Kaspersky Lab found that the computers of 33.4% of Internet users in Western Europe and North America were attacked at least once during the first six months of 2012 while users were browsing the Web. Read More
There is a belief that a shared environment, between fixed line and mobile, will be the most likely scenario going forward. There is a big push behind rich media application and integration, including video on demand and interactive video/ content provision Read More
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on the Domain Names markets. Number of Domain Names registration worldwide is projected to exceed 305 million by 2018. Apart from launch of new Top Level Domains and approval for new Internationalized Domain Names by ICANN Read More