internet

Update: DDoS attack on Dyn DNS leaves internet crippled

Update #5, 22 October, 12.30am: Dyn has issued its lengthiest update yet, revealing a few more details about the DDoS attack on its DNS…

South Africa’s media landscape: what will 2020 hold?

A new PwC report has laid out predictions for the South African media and entertainment landscape by 2020. Entertainment and media (E&M) companies saw double…

#datamustfall: Afrihost Mobile offers R1/250MB promotion

In the wake of the #datamustfall social media campaigns, MVNO Afrihost Mobile has stepped up to the plate with a promotion. The network has…

Telkom Mobile revises uncapped LTE throttling policy

Telkom Mobile has announced a revised fair usage policy (FUP) for uncapped LTE users, following negative publicity on social media. Users who had allegedly fallen…

Fast internet for all, 5G everywhere by 2025 – EU

The European Commission has announced a few rather ambitious connectivity targets for 2025. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that the internet connectivity proposals will encourage…

Stream ripping now a bigger issue than illegal downloads

Torrent groups and downloads have traditionally been the biggest thorn in the music industry’s side, but it looks like stream-ripping is the industry’s new arch-nemesis According…

Telkom ‘sabotage’: Over 13 000 customers affected

Telkom has revealed more details on what it calls wide-scale sabotage of its network, saying that 13 200 customers were affected by the outages….

Meeker files: emerging markets own web growth, mobile on top

People around the globe are still coming online on the for the first time in their millions. That much of that growth comes from…

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…

The internet is big. Very big. [Infographic]

Ahh! Every day, 4.7 billion minutes are spent on Facebook? 35 million apps are downloaded? 294 billion emails are sent? My brain cannot begin…

Is it tickets for the web?

For an industry focused on the future of information, the internet is surprisingly prone to old fashioned maladies such as superstition, rumour and wild…

Rehabillitation clinic aims to help South Korea’s internet addicts

An internet rehabilitation clinic has opened in South Korea in the hopes of making a dent in the millions considered to be internet addicts…

A visual representation of the internet [Infographic]

PEER 1, an IT hosting provider, has produced a visual interpretation of the internet. It identifies 19 869 autonomous system nodes with 44 344…

Social media: A tool for revolution

Cellphones, social media and easy internet access ( in some cases), energetic youth and years of pent-up anger seems to be a toxic mix…

French ship brings faster internet to Cuba

Cuba now has the promise of better internet connection with the arrival of a massive submarine fiber optic cable on its Cuba. Though most…

The Internet in 2020: Four visions of the future

What is the internet going to look like in 10 years time? Cast your mind back a decade into the past and the internet…

Study finds 7.2% of British GDP comes from internet

The internet contributed 100-billion pounds (about US$155-billion dollars) to the British economy last year, about 7.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a report…

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