internet

MTN launches Air Fibre wireless internet plans

MTN has announced the launched of its Supersonic Air Fibre internet plans, aimed at providing wireless connectivity with fibre-quality speeds. “We are breaking down…

MTN shades Vodacom as the best network in South Africa in Q1 2020

MTN claimed the title of South Africa’s fastest network in Q1 2020, according to data from MyBroadband. The publisher on Monday unveiled its latest…

Another cable break wrecks SA’s internet access, but a fix is on the way

No, it wasn’t just you, or because of the lockdown either. The internet across much of South Africa was slow this weekend thanks to…

WACS, SAT-3 internet cable repair still more than a week away

It may be more than a week until South Africans can enjoy full-speed internet again through WACS, this according to the South African National…

7 tips to get the most out of Microsoft’s Edge Chromium web browser

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new version of Microsoft’s Edge browser called Edge Chromium. Although it shares a name with its browser…

South Africa’s internet cable repair delayed by Cape Town’s weather

Cape Town’s inclement weather this weekend has delayed repairs to the broken undersea cables that have affected South Africa’s international internet access since Thursday….

Can’t connect to Twitter in SA? Thank the broken undersea cables for that

If you’re in South Africa and struggling to load Twitter today, don’t worry you’re not alone. Due to undersea fibre cable breaks off the…

Just 10.4% of South African households have direct access to the internet

Just 64.7% of South African households have at least one member that can internet from any device, anywhere, according to Statistics South Africa. The…

The internet gets carried away by JK Rowling-inspired predictive text game

Frustration towards JK Rowling has been on the rise ever since the author revealed that Dumbledore and Grindelwald of the Harry Potter universe were…

Facebook removed 1.5 million videos of the Christchurch shooting in 24 hours

The world is still reeling after the terrorist attack that took place in Christchurch, New Zealand last Friday. The mass shooting was live streamed…

The internet believes PewDiePie inspired the Christchurch mosque shooting

YouTube’s most followed creator PewDiePie is being accused of inspiring Friday’s mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. This comes after one of the perpetrators…

Elon Musk laughs at a dead deer and becomes a new reaction meme

This weekend Elon Musk along with Rick And Morty co-creator Justin Roiland hosted an episode of PewDiePie’s Meme Review. Sounds fun, but did we…

Samsung’s Android browser gets major updates, OneUI design flair

Samsung Internet Beta, the Korean company’s mobile browser, is getting a slew of updates, it announced on Tuesday. “Along with updating our engine to…

Mozilla Firefox 66 will mute autoplay videos by default

Developer Mozilla announced on Monday that Firefox 66 will mute automatically playing video content on web pages by default. This means that when you’re…

Gillette ad addressing toxic masculinity draws heavy criticism online

On Tuesday, personal care company Gillette posted a short film titled “We Believe: The Best a Man Can Be” to YouTube, which has sent…

#ShutdownZimbabwe: internet access disrupted amid protests

According to multiple reports, internet access across Zimbabwe has been disrupted amid ongoing protests that erupted after Saturday’s record fuel price hike. Last weekend,…

LiFi could light up your internet connection within the next 10 years

An internet connection has become a basic requirement for billions of people across the world. But what happens when a wireless connection isn’t available,…

MTN launches ‘Made For Home’ residential fixed LTE offering

MTN is today unveiled its new home internet solution dubbed “Made For Home”. Taking a bite out of fixed line internet solutions, the telecom’s…

The startling numbers behind Africa’s Wikipedia knowledge gaps

Wikipedia is one of the internet’s most trafficked websites. We’ve likely all visited it at least once, and spent countless nights travelling through informational…

Net neutrality: Africa, tech giants and the fate of the web

Not to be too dramatic about it, but the internet as we know it is all but dead. And unless there is a collective…

This is how global internet speeds changed in 2017

You may not feel it if you’re still using ADSL over century-old copper lines in South Africa, but global internet speeds over both fixed…

Microsoft Edge hits Android, iOS because people asked for it (lol)

Microsoft Edge represents a big improvement over the much-maligned Internet Explorer, but it’s still a long way from threatening the likes of Chrome and…

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