Updated May 2011.
Africa-specific Terms:

Cherrypal: Computer marketer that produces a $99 computer.
DRC: Democratic Republic of Congo
Etisalat: UAE-based telecoms provider.
g-[nation]: Google conference held to promote web tools
iHub: Open space for tech innovators in Nairobi.
InfraCo: Holding company that creates viable infrastructure investment opportunities in developing countries.
Intelsat: Communications satellite provider.
ISPA: South African ISPs
Kabissa: Network …

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Apart from Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, a multitude of other social networks are growing in popularity and have the potential to draw new users online.

After some moderate tweaking, oAfrica.com is now ready to better serve an abnormally diverse audience. Naturally, it seems that people in closer proximity to Africa have a greater interest in the developments of African networks. Over the past week the breakdown of visits by continent was as follows:

Continent
% Visitors

Asia
38%

Africa
30%

Americas
21%

Europe
10%

Surprisingly, however, …

Recently, a South African call-center business, frustrated with its slow Internet connection, decided to transfer data between two of its offices – via messenger pigeon. The pigeon traveled 50 miles with 4gb of data in just over 2 hours; only 100mb was sent over the hard line in that time. …