On
the Web, forever has a due date - 5 October
At the end of October, Yahoo will pull the plug on GeoCities, the
service that more than 1 million people used to set up web pages.
On Oct 27, the whole thing will simply cease to exist. It will, as
we say in the industry, go poof. This poofing business does not
bode well. Lately, there's been so much discussion about the
permanence of information – especially the embarrassing kind –
that we have overlooked the fact that it can also disappear. At a
time when we're throwing all kinds of data and memories onto free
websites, it's a blunt reminder that the future can bring
unwelcome surprises. - The
Globe and Mail website
Seacom
Cable
Speed
test on Seacom's dedicated connection from Sandton Square to
London - 15 October 2009
Simon Dingle on Life
Stream blog
Seacom
showcases ‘true broadband’ at Sandton exhibition - 15
October
Africa could not be the home of the next great innovator if it had
constrained bandwidth, Seacom CEO Brian Herlihy said on Thursday,
adding that Seacom had brought the bandwidth-bearing
infrastructure to the continent and now the company's partners
could "start making things happen". Speaking at the
Seacom public exhibition tent at the Nelson Mandela square in
Sandton, Herlihy added that all the technological advancements
that companies such as Cisco, Neotel, Dimension Data and Microsoft
dreamt of, were now possible because the 1,2Tb capacity undersea
fibre-optics cable infrastructure was operational on the
continent. - Creamer
Media's Engineering News website