I sincerely express my heartfelt condolence to the family and friends of APPLE’s retiring CEO Steve Jobs.
His demise has shocked the IT market and consumers of his products to their very roots.
I have read so many comments on facebook, twitter, linkedin and other outlets across the internet, pouring non-stop praises and accolades on him for his achievements. Continue reading
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The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), a body responsible for managing Nigeria’s identity on the domain name space, .ng, has urged firms to switch to the .ng country-code Top Level Domain.
A country-code Top Level Domain (cc-TLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country and identifies Websites related to that country. Continue reading
X-Shops: Fast and Reliable Ecommerce hostingMicrosoft this week used its Malicious Software Removal Tool to take out the fourth-biggest threat in automated program’s history, which dates back to at least 2005.
The malware, known as Win32/Renocide, is a crafty backdoor-enabled worm that spreads through removable drives, network shares and popular file-sharing applications. Continue reading
The US Department of Justice is investigating MPEG LA - the patent pool organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, and others – over the organization’s effort to undermine the royalty free V8 codec Google introduced last year, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter. Continue reading
Cyber attacks are already upon us but the rules of digital warfare have yet to be agreed upon. Is it time, as an influential think tank believes, for a digital Geneva Convention?
Is it even possible when the internet was designed without country borders and when defining what a “cyber-war” constitutes is near-impossible?
“We come in peace” reads the tagline of the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.
The event, which attracts “thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world”, is a timely reminder that not all hackers are obsessed with unearthing secrets or bringing down governments. Continue reading
Africa may not be the first place you think of when talking about the digital revolution but many Zambian villages are looking to change all that.
The village of Macha is a long way from anywhere, the nearest town is almost 50 miles away.
But for the past few years it has harboured a surprising dream – to pioneer the spread of the internet to the 80% of Zambians who don’t live in cities.
And this is good news for Zambians like Fred Mweetwa who has lived and worked on his family’s farm since he was born.
One of his cattle was ill and the vet was hundreds of miles away. While the village has had a mobile signal for a couple of years, there is now another way. Continue reading
