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Internet
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Do You Live In South Africa? Google Is Hiring – From Interns To Department Heads
05 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Do you think you have what it takes to work at Google? Well, Google is looking for South African-based applicants to work in their Joburg office, so here’s your chance to stand out among the crowd.
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New Porn Wave – Website Doesn’t Show Any Actual Sex
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re tired of all the, well, porn, in porn, and looking for something a little more natural and amateur, then an alternative Australian erotic website may be right up your alley.
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Here Is The Afrikaans Version Of Twitter, Called Toeter
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s first Afrikaans social network launches, and it’s a weird mash-up of Facebook’s news features and Twitter’s posting options.
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Here’s The Best Arguement Why Uber May Be The Next Google
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google, the search-and-advertising behemoth, and Uber, the five-year-old startup remaking urban transportation, may have more in common than you may think, and there are some good reasons why Uber is as popular as it is.
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You’re Doing It Wrong – Improve Your Googling Skills With These Very Handy Tips
02 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Googling can be quite the dark art to master, so there are a bunch of handy tips to help you take your search engine skills to the next level. Whether you want to search inside a particular website, define a word, or just do some number-crunching, Google has a solution.
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Is This Pen The Future Of Viral Videos?
02 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everyone wants in on the money-making action of YouTube viral videos, but there’s more than relying on chance to capture your soon-to-be popular vids. You need to equipped for the job, and there is a solution to keeping you undercover, while giving you the ability to grabbing some solid footage.
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This Guy’s Entire Life Is Live Streaming Via Webcam
22 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re looking for that new fix to satisfy your dwindling Candy Crush or Farmville addiction, there’s a new internet drug on the loose: “life-casting”. That’s right, and Ari Kivikangas is one of the most popular life-casters out there, and if you subscribe to his U-Stream channel, you’ll get to watch an old semi-naked dude sit, mumble and […]
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This Website Knows Everything About You [VIDEO]
24 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Before we begin, you should know that this whole thing is a marketing campaign for a video game. But that doesn’t mean that the data isn’t real, or that this isn’t scary as hell. The video above is a guy exploring a new website that mines the web for data that you didn’t know was publicly available. It will make you skrik.
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BRCK: A Backup Generator For The Internet
10 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Africa is plagued with internet connectivity issues. This brick shaped device, aptly named BRCK, hopes to get more Africans online and more importantly, stay online. The device started out as a project to solve an African problem, but it may end up being used by hipsters who frequent coffee shop hotspots.
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This Is How The Internet Works In South Africa [PICS]
10 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
As you sit crawling the internet on your smartphone, desktop or snazzy laptop, it is easy to dismiss the work going on behind the scenes to get you your internet fix. Instead of cursing the offspring of your internet service provider when your router light goes off, or when your cat pictures are taking too long to load, take a look at the bigger picture.
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‘Password’ Is No Longer The Worst Internet Password
22 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s right! We have a new world leader in the dumbest-ever-password category. And it’s… Well, its pretty daft.
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Believe It – China Has Serious Rehab Centres To Deprogram Teens Living In Virtual Reality
21 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Daxing, China, is one of over 400 prison-like ‘rehabilitation centres’ that seek to ‘deprogram’ teens, and wean them off their crippling addiction to the world wide web.
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Web Laziness Out Of Control? Monitor Your Browsing With Limitless
08 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When browsing the internet, it’s hard to tell how much time you’re wasting. You get sucked into an endless vortex of ridiculous amounts of time-wasting content.
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Caprice Partners In Free Wi-Fi For Camps Bay Initiative
10 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
It seems the Internet gods have heard our prayers. It was just announced that Skyrive, in partnership with MacroLan and Café Caprice, will launch free Wi-Fi for Camps Bay! Skyrove is aWi-Fi company in Cape Town that specialises in software solutions, and we would like to thank them dearly for the free Wi-Fi. Internet-junkies will be able to use 100MB of data per device per day for free, and, after that, extra data can be bought from Skyrove or one of its partners.
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Finally: South Africans Can Book Doctor’s Appointments Via This Website
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For most of us, finding a new Doctor that is competent, caring and close by is near-impossible. Finding the time to actually call to make a booking is even more difficult. Asking around often proves fruitless; online directories only supply contact details. And even if you find a doctor with a web booking form, how do you know if they’re any good?
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Mysterious Online Organisation Has Geeks Transfixed
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For the past two years, a secretive online organisation has piqued the interest of the world’s finest code-breakers in a series of seemingly unsolvable puzzles. But why? And who is behind the puzzle? Welcome, friends, to the dark and twisted world of Cicada 3301.
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Lonely? Here’s A Company That Will Create A Fake Girlfriend For You
28 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a dark corner of the internet we found a website that will shine a light into the lives of single men who think real women are a drag. Or, you know, hard to talk to. The ‘Invisible Girlfriend’ website will help you project the illusion of having a girlfriend. The process is as simple as selecting your fake mate from a library, and personalising her according to your specific needs and circumstances.
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It Seems SA’s Addiction To Porn Is Getting Out Of Hand
25 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It seems as if we South African’s have a bit of a porn problem. Reports claim that ‘porn addiction’ is on the rise in our fair land, with kids as young as 15 being checked into therapy, and millions of rands being spent on porn subscriptions each month.
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Video Related Internet Traffic Is Set To Explode In Africa
12 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Video currently accounts for less than six percent of internet traffic across Africa, according to the Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report, but that number is expected to grow faster than it did for any other region before it.
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Mango Airlines Seem To Be Lying About Internet On Board – Forced To Remove Claims
06 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
Last year, Mango airlines famously became the first South African airline to offer in-flight internet access. Strangely, Mango also became the first South African airline to lie about having internet access on board. Yup, the Advertising Standards Authority has decided that, in order or you to use WiFi access as part of your marketing strategy, you need to actually have WiFi.
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The Comprehensive Guide To Making Money From The Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
28 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
“Google has blessed me with a R4000 p/m job from home” – this is how easy it is to make money off the internet, if we are to believe popular banner ads. In reality, making money from the internet is no easier than making money in real life – you need a certain set of skills executed in just the right way in order to ensure results.
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Introducing The World’s Top 10 Worst Countries For Internet Attacks [PIC]
28 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On the world wide web, these people are not your friends, mkay? Akamai released its Second Quarter 2013 State of the Internet Report recently, highlighting the internet’s most vulnerable ports, and a list of countries that evidently play host to a lot of naughty boys and girls with internet connections. So who is the top country in the world for internet attacks?
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MWEB Wins Case Against Customers Who Thought “Uncapped” Really Meant Uncapped
24 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 19 Comments
I hope these guys know that the average internet speed in the Czech Republic is around 20MB per second, which comes uncapped every month for about R300. MWeb just happens to be one of those companies attempting to trick us into thinking that we have it good – but when they promised two internet users an “uncapped” bundle that wasn’t actually uncapped, the gig was up.
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Hipsters Plan To Ditch The Internet
23 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The hipsters are over the internet, and it’s about to go viral. Check out these cryptic messages about the internet from these bands and novelists.
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Handy Tip: Use Google As A Countdown Clock
23 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s done it again! Check out this handy new feature!
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9 African Millionaires To Bet On In An Internet Boom
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Almost everyone on this list has already made sizeable personal fortunes with online ventures, but some of them, like Heunis and Apteker seem to be biding their time. With internet commerce projected to be one of the fastest growing African industries in the next 10 years, these are 10 people who have the expertise and the industry know-how to exploit an African internet boom.
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The State Of The Internet In South Africa [INFOGRAPHIC]
15 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa accounts for 60% of the Internet traffic in Africa and 41% of South Africa’s population has access to the Internet. But what does the country’s Internet look like when compared to the rest of the world?
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The Internet: A Complete History From 1969 To 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC]
24 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today the Internet has over 2,7 billion users and 634 million websites – a far cry from when it all began. We all know the Internet is huge and we know that it is continuously growing. This infogrpahic gives you a taste of that growth.
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The Future Is Terrific: Google Will Bring WiFi To Africa On High Altitude Floating Blimps
27 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has unveiled plans to roll out free wireless networks across Africa and Asia using high-altitude blimps and balloons. If the project is succesful, 1 billion previously unconnected people will have internet access.
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The World’s First Ever Website, Resurrected
02 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
30 April marked the World Wide Web’s 20th anniversary. And to celebrate this milestone in history CERN is reviving the orginial and first website. This URL has been dormant for years.
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