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The Internet DB Board

Inventing the Internet DB Board. Like an electrical DB board is your go to spot when you have a problem, you should have an Internet DB board too.

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Uncapped gigabit Internet

What is gigabit uncapped? At this speed you can only be betting unfettered bandwidth for a matched cost. There can not be a long term fixed price for such a product.

SmartTV

"Smart TV" OR Xiaomi Mi Box S media player

Best media player 2018. We stock these for all those in denial that their TV is smart. They have been working well for the least tech clients for years.

Netflix

Net Flieks

*Netflix, Netflix, Netflix. Netflix-Original, "Let's check Netflix!", "Netflix and chill?", "Do you have Netflix?"* Short of living on the moon for the last decade, it is almost impossible to not have heard of movie and TV series streaming giant Netflix

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An interesting month for the internet

From rising water levels worldwide, to new laws and regulations as well as nation wide internet shut downs, the ever-shifting internet has been busy over the last 30 days, so let's get stuck in!

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"Look Ma, I got 1 million views!"

Technology is pushing society onwards and upwards as we create, develop and upgrade the world around us and, as expected, this push has opened up a whole new field of careers which never existed several decades ago.

China

回中国! (Back to China)

On the 16th of June, around midday, I left home to travel to China on a university studying programme for the second time in a year. Besides the basics of worrying about whether I had enough clothes, or my toothbrush, I had to consider my social media and messaging applications

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Privacy Policies?

If you've opened your email recently, there's a very high chance that you have been flooded by tons of "Update our private policy" emails. Well, as much as these emails might look like spam... they're not...

Vanilla

How much freedom do you really have on the internet?

Many internet service providers around the world believe that a unrestricted access to the internet is pivotal to modern internet users' lives. This concept was coined as Net Neutrality by a media law professor from Columbia University in 2003.

Languages

Calling all polyglots!

Many of us have decided at some point, "Right. This is it. I'm learning 'X'." And off you went down to the bookstore, asked the hopefully helpful bookseller there to direct you to the language learning section, and then picked out your, "Learn French 101: Complete guide with CD."

China

An internet without Google?

Many other different types of social media such as Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube along with 6 000 other websites cannot scale the Great Firewall and land themselves in mainland China.

Vanilla

How does the internet work

What's the difference between fibre and fixed wireless, or adsl? What is the Domain Name System? Read this to learn some of the basics.

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The Fastest Internet in Africa

Fibre has recently become a much-used buzzword, referring to super fast internet connectivity. Many companies are offering deals of 10Mbps or even 20Mbps Fibre. Compared to Telkom's 2Mbps ADSL lines, this might seem really fast. Yet, this is not even half of what fibre should be giving you. A fibre

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My Partner in Crime (and Sales)

Meet Caitlyn Holiday, part-time model, tutor and sales consultant at Vanilla. In all the business meetings, cold calling and coffee pitstops, Caitlyn is by my side — I like to think we make a pretty impressive sales team. Like me, she is ambitious, curious and ready to explore the wonderful world