Mobiles versus Laptops
Cory Doctorow is one of my heroes. A great writer, an outspoken champion of the commons, and someone who is not afraid to be himself in public. I have relied on his ideas countless times…
SA Telecoms – One Step Forward, Two Back
South Africa, which recently made a great leap forward in the opening up of competition in the telecommunications is in danger of making an even bigger leap backwards thanks to the license fees being proposed…
7 Things You May or May Not Know About Me
Tagged by the fearless and gregarious Mark Surman, I semi-reluctantly allow myself to become a vector for the 7 things meme/social virus. I suspect Patient Zero to be a Mozillian. So here are…. 7 things…
Why WiFi in Africa?
Imagine an alternative history. Imagine that in 1995, when Microsoft launched their walled-garden MSN service, which they fully expected would, for all intents and purposes, put the Internet out of business, imagine that they succeeded.…
YAPAUC – Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) Cable
Yet Another Planned African Undersea Cable (YAPAUC). As 2008 draws to a close, I can’t help but reflect in amazement at the rash of announcements in the last year of planned undersea fibre-optic cables around…