Tag archive: Tanzania

It took two years to lay, stretches 17,500 kilometers, and cost $650. But the fiber optic cable operated by Seacom has brought high speed Internet access to East Africa, connecting South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and Asia, the BBC reports. Due to be launched last month, but delayed by the activity of Somalian pirates, the services were officially unveiled in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. In Tanzania, the… Read More

Internet giant Google also operates Google.org, a “hybrid philanthropy” organization which puts one percent of Google's equity and profits towards philanthropic endeavors, as well as the time and expertise of its employees. Some of these initiatives are traditional non-profit and humanitarian organizations, but others are for-profit ventures. Google.org had been primarily focused on assisting the development of alternative… Read More

The peer-to-peer mobile phone has arrived. TerraNet, a Swedish company, has developed technology that allows users to speak on handsets without the need for a mobile phone base station. That makes it ideal for more remote regions, as the company is finding with trials in Ecuador and Tanzania. Each handset is adapted to become a peer, enabling it to be a node between other handsets, so each set extends the range of the system; currently… Read More

Online payment service—and eBay subsidiary—PayPal has announced it has expanded its reach to 87 new national markets, and had finally made its primary site available in three new languages. The new additions make PayPal available in 190 markets around the world. As of today, users will also be able to access the main PayPal site—and all online transaction processes—in Spanish, French, or simplified Chinese.… Read More