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Innovation in a black tie

September 30, 2010 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
..As one of the most exciting and significant bi-monthly networking sessions for people in IT and Telecoms, The Innovation Dinner Series brings together decision makers and top-flight speakers to discuss burning issues in the ICT Industry.- ITNews Africa
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G|Uganda Recap

September 16, 2010 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Google's G|Uganda Conference held at Kampala's Speke Resort Munyonyo. On September 1st Kampala saw the kick off of Google’s gUganda, which was held at ...
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Appfrica Labs: Almost a Year Old!

December 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Appfrica Labs has been incredibly fortunate over the past ten months. We’ve operated on a shoestring budget, performing what I liked to call ‘alchemy’. That ...
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Periodic Table of World Internet Facts

December 13, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Twenty-Five percent (about 1.73 billion) of the world’s population is currently online, largely in developed world countries. Challenges for bringing the other four billion online ...
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Appfricast 18 - A Chat with Tim Berners-Lee

November 25, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web visits Kampala to discuss the history of the web as well as the future of the ...
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Google controls 6% of all Internet traffic

October 14, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Only 150 networks control over 50% of all online traffic. This, in comparison with 5 years ago, when traffic was democratized among thousands and thousands ...
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Internet Everywhere, Even Disaster Zones

September 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The latest MAKE Magazine has a great article about getting Internet anywhere (or more specifically, in disaster zones). The first page is online, and ...
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How to Shoehorn the High-Bandwidth Internet into a Low-Bandwidth Connection

August 17, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
High speed Internet access in Africa is rare and often prohibitively expensive. Lucky for us, the web started out as a text-only medium, and with ...
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Global Communication Infrastructure

July 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The images below visualize what the global ‘undersea cable’ infrastructure looks like that allows the world to communicate using various platforms (like the internet). These ...
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Benin is Back! Togo and Niger, Not So Much

July 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Yesterday, Benin Telecoms announced that Internet connections were being turned back on throughout the country. The state-run ISP has negotiated with neighboring countries to circumvent ...
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