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/ 12 November 2011
SA’s internet is two decades old, and this weekend marks the anniversary of the first packets of data that flowed over the internet to and from SA.
<b>Matthew Buckland</b> spoke to <i>Wired</i> publisher Chris Anderson about how technology,
social media and the internet are evolving.
The internet is letting a school sprout in the Amazon where teachers tend not to linger due to harsh living conditions and a scarcity of students.
For an industry focused on the future of information, the internet is surprisingly prone to old fashioned maladies, such as superstition.
China appears to be moving aggressively to plug holes in its "Great Firewall" censorship system, foreign internet companies and analysts say.
The dramatic price difference between the mall and the internet is shattering some costly myths.
Online scammers’ pathological need for sympathy taps into a global pool of goodwill.
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/ 17 February 2011
Fuel cells got a vote of confidence and Twitter didn’t, Sony failed to impress, Apple failed to surprise, and the internet in Egypt disappeared.
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/ 2 February 2011
For most users, the internet is infinite. It seems odd that this boundless cyberspace could run out of addresses, but that’s what’s about to happen.
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/ 25 January 2011
Majority of South African online shoppers are satisfied with their overall online shopping experience says the latest MasterCard Worldwide survey.
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/ 21 December 2010
As concern about online privacy grows, Mozilla is promising to let people cloak internet activity in free Firefox web-browsing software.
They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the haystack-burning, fence-toppling protests by peasants losing their rights to the land.
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/ 17 December 2010
China’s internet censors may keep most of the nation’s 420-million web users from accessing Facebook, but they haven’t stopped social game developers.
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/ 17 November 2010
The internet: A place disconnected from the gritty business of real life. But why isn’t the internet considered part of our real lives?
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/ 15 September 2010
Coalition says film, TV and music industries must bear financial burden of pursuing illegal downloaders.
Stop a passerby and ask them "what is the internet?" Their answer is guaranteed to focus on technology.
When author Nicholas Carr began researching his book on whether the internet is ruining our minds, he restricted his online access and email.
The internet had a disruptive impact on the handling of the flu pandemic by fanning speculation and rumours, officials said on Tuesday.
Internet service provider MWeb on Thursday claimed to be the first major player in SA to offer uncapped ADSL on a significant scale.
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/ 21 January 2010
America’s most popular newspaper website on Wednesday announced that its era of free online journalism is drawing to a close.
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/ 15 January 2010
China said on Friday that Google’s threat to pull out of the country over censorship would not affect Beijing’s economic ties with the US.
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/ 14 January 2010
The number of South African internet users has passed five million for the first time, research group World Wide Worx said on Thursday.
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/ 14 January 2010
Chinese internet users on Thursday appealed for Google not to close down its operations in the country after an ultimatum to Beijing over censorship.
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/ 1 December 2009
Low-cost airline Mango on Tuesday announced the launch of its internet offering, G-Connect.
Chinese officials appear to have retreated from their controversial plan to install an internet-filtering system on computers in the country.
Microsoft and Yahoo! have launched a 10-year web-search deal to challenge market leader Google.
China’s ambitions to strengthen control of the internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday.
A Chinese lawyer has demanded a public hearing to reconsider a government demand that all new personal computers carry internet-filtering software.
Eighty percent of SA’s internet users shop online with the majority buying items such as CDs and DVDs, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
Lawyers who helped prosecute The Pirate Bay have become the latest targets in an internet backlash over the decision to jail the site’s founders.
It’s not all porn and free music. Turns out there’s more than a little God on the Internet. Faranaaz Parker reports.