Google is fighting with Symantec over encrypting the internet

Google, which has accused Symantec and its partners of misissuing tens of thousands of certificates for encrypted web connections, quietly announced Thursday that it’s downgrading the level and length of trust Chrome will place in certificates issued by Symantec. Encrypted web connections — HTTPS connections like those on banking sites, login pages or news sites like [...]

By |2017-04-26T06:38:55+00:00April 25th, 2017|Internet, Latest News, Reviews, Security, Software|Comments Off on Google is fighting with Symantec over encrypting the internet

Telkom-Cell C merger to grow connectivity in SA

The potential tie-up of Cell C and Telkom could boost the government's plans to increase connectivity to all citizens, analysts said on Wednesday. It emerged this week that Telkom might make another bid for Cell C, which was downgraded in January by ratings agency Standard & Poor's for missing payments to creditors. Cell C is [...]

By |2017-04-10T18:18:28+00:00April 14th, 2017|Electronics, Internet, Latest News|Comments Off on Telkom-Cell C merger to grow connectivity in SA

Is industrial IT the next wave for Africa?

Kenya, East Africa's industrial nerve centre is on the cusp of real growth and innovation. In fact, according to the African Economic Outlook in 2015, East Africa was again the continent's fastest-growing region and is expected to continue its high growth path in 2016/2017. Infrastructure projects, manufacturing and energy and resource companies may be facing [...]

By |2017-04-13T11:43:09+00:00April 12th, 2017|Internet, Latest News|Comments Off on Is industrial IT the next wave for Africa?

Google Family Link lets you monitor kids’ mobile usage

Apple's Family Sharing functionality has been one of the better features for parents, allowing them to approve family members' purchases and more. Now, Google has stepped things up in a big way thanks to the Family Link app. The app, targeted at children under the age of 13, allows you to monitor their app usage [...]

By |2017-04-06T10:24:54+00:00April 6th, 2017|Internet|Comments Off on Google Family Link lets you monitor kids’ mobile usage

Google for Android now lets you search without signal

The Google app for Android now saves search queries when your data connect fails, returning results once a data signal is reestablished. Google said the search results will “deliver as soon as a connection is available”. “With this change, search results are saved as soon as they are retrieved, even if you lose connection afterwards or [...]

By |2017-02-27T08:25:40+00:00March 22nd, 2017|Internet, Latest News|Comments Off on Google for Android now lets you search without signal

DuckDuckGo search engine shows huge growth

The DuckDuckGo search engine has shown strong growth since it launched eight years ago, with the site recently celebrating its 10 billionth search. According to a report by BetaNews, DuckDuckGo served 4 billion of those searches in 2016. On 10 January, it received over 14 million searches in a single day. DuckDuckGo describes itself as the search [...]

By |2017-01-24T10:04:25+00:00February 21st, 2017|Internet, Latest News|Comments Off on DuckDuckGo search engine shows huge growth

Google doodle honors Steve Biko’s courage

Near the end of his life, Steve Biko wasn't permitted to speak to more than one person at a time, but that didn't stop him from spreading the message of equality for all. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in the 1960s and '70s, when the system of racial segregation and discrimination was at its height [...]

By |2017-02-27T08:25:48+00:00December 20th, 2016|Internet|Comments Off on Google doodle honors Steve Biko’s courage

Google expands its initiative to provide free Wi-Fi hotspots in emerging markets

Google today announced a collection of updates that are aimed at helping get ‘the next billion’ internet users in India and emerging markets online. One of the more subtle yet interesting components to that push is the launch of Google Station, a project to enable free public Wi-Fi hotspots, which is now open for new [...]

By |2016-09-27T12:15:05+00:00September 27th, 2016|Internet, Latest News|Comments Off on Google expands its initiative to provide free Wi-Fi hotspots in emerging markets

Adblock Plus bypasses Facebook’s attempt to restrict ad blockers

The war between Facebook and ad blockers is heating up. Just two days after the social network announced plans to restrict software that removes its advertising, the popular utility Adblock Plus has already unveiled a workaround. All you need to do is update your Adblock Plus filters to banish those ads once again. Facebook previously [...]

By |2017-02-27T08:26:03+00:00August 16th, 2016|Internet, Latest News|Comments Off on Adblock Plus bypasses Facebook’s attempt to restrict ad blockers

Google’s Fuchsia operating system runs on virtually anything

Google is no stranger to creating whole platforms when it needs them, but its latest project might be something special. It's working on Fuchsia, an open source operating system that's designed to scale all the way fromInternet of Things devices through to phones and even PCs. Its kernel includes 'grown up' OS features like user [...]

By |2016-08-16T15:40:31+00:00August 16th, 2016|Internet, Latest News|Comments Off on Google’s Fuchsia operating system runs on virtually anything
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