In the race to connect the unconnected, Africa has often been left at the margins of global capital flows. But that narrative is starting…
BitTorrent launches locked bundles, trying to distance itself from pirates
BitTorrent — the company behind the file format that users have been gleefully using to share and download pirated content for years — has…
Slipping private boundaries: how the web is changing language
“What the internet has done is to create a space for language that runs and slips over the boundary of public and private language,…
Mistakes on social media and iTunes’ old age: top stories you should read
Chances are that you caught up on the events in Boston on social media. But what were you reading: fact or fiction? Perhaps you…
Google or the government: who’s really controlling our freedom online?
It’s an apt time to reflect on online freedom. On 3 May it’s World Media Freedom Day and South Africa, which has just passed…
