Facebook to surround all of Africa in optical fibre and tinfoil
Plans new sub cable running from the UK to Spain on just-about the longest route possible
15 May 2020
Articles about Africa
The week in networking? It's SD-WAN all the way down
Also: Huawei cloud lands in Africa, Nokia OpenStack, Cisco Nexus BIOS bugs
16 Nov 2018
Cost of Africa's internet shutdowns? $1m a day – quarter of a billion total
New report digs into economic damage caused by over-zealous governments
02 Oct 2017
Public Cloud makes it to Africa for the first time
Microsoft plants a flag before Google, AWS and IBM
22 May 2017
Africa poses for 7,000 snap mosaic
Fine cloud-free view from Europe's Sentinel-2A satellite
19 May 2016
ICANN knifes Africa's internet: New top-level domains terminated
Nine $185,000 dot-words taken away
09 May 2016
Facebook, French sat operator in SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
Hello Sub-Saharans, this is Zuck calling
05 Oct 2015
Mobile phones are the greatest poverty-reducing tech EVER
Worstall on WednesdayAnd possibly Africa's only real source of economic growth
23 Sep 2015
Unredacted: ICANN's hidden role in fierce battle over .Africa rights
Damning review was censored – but we've seen the full report
15 Jul 2015
Virtual Africa is the logical target for IP address colonists
The last great global IPv4 stash is up held by the region that might need them the most
16 Jun 2014
IBM to invest $100m and a decade into using Watson in Africa
Big Blue starts supercomputer project to help healthcare and education intiatives
07 Feb 2014
Increased cell phone coverage tied to uptick in African violence
'Significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict'
18 Jun 2013
Revealed: Google's plan to float BLIMP NETWORK over Africa, Asia
Relax, they're providing 'net access to rural punters
29 May 2013
Nokia Life touches down in Kenya, jingles pocketful of Microsoft money
But only rich westerners, and Nokia, get stuff for free
08 Apr 2013
Microsoft sails into Africa with White Spaces and Huawei phones
4Afrika rural network project
07 Feb 2013
New monkey species with massive blue arse found in Africa
Possibly record-breaking buttocks stun boffinry world
13 Sep 2012
Google HARVESTS African mobile numbers with Gmail SMS
Welcome to Google+, we hope you... TXT FOR MORE
19 Jul 2012
Zimbabwe's Mugabe welcomes Chinese tech investment
Er, cheers Bob but keep it down, yeah?
11 May 2012
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