F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Linux geeks rebuild entire internet in garage
This is pretty insane. A group of Silicon Valley-based Linux hackers are crafting a new operating system, not for personal computers, or smartphones, or…
Preparing for the worst: can someone please back up the internet?
I have a t-shirt created by Dinosaur Comics. It’s a nerdy shirt with way too much text on it, but its premise is pretty…
Are social networks really killing the web?
Occasionally I stumble on blog posts describing how social networks are killing the internet. The claim is that people are becoming locked into social…
Over a third of China’s online population are mobile-only users [Report]
China has the world’s largest online population, topping out at over 500-million users. That’s interesting enough in its own right. More interesting though, is…
