Mauritius is connected to the Internet through various submarine communications cables. Few of which I know are SAFE, EASSy, LION and SAT-3/WASC – all connected to Africa. The best server to test against would therefore be any one hosted in the African continent. Well, NO. It turns out we are not directly connected to any African destination. [...]

The super confidential gets revealed! The most awaited device of the year, the first Nokia Windows Phone handset codenamed “Sea Ray” was revealed by Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop. The device closely resembles Nokia’s newest baby, the N9. Not a lot details were revealed about the “super confidential” innovation, however, the device is announced to sport [...]

So looking at the title, you must be thinking I’m writing about the famous mobile.facebook.com on your favourite Opera Mini or Mobile Browser. Well not really, what I’m sharing today is about being able to update your Facebook status, receive your notifications, RSVP to events or subscribe to your friends’ status updates, all through Facebook’s [...]

Finally a new trick by Orange Mauritius! They’ve setup a SpeedTest.Net Server in Mauritius. At least now we can get near-real estimations of our ADSL connections, but not for MyT! Beware MyT users!!! Don’t test to this server, you’ll get local speeds (i.e. around 2Mbps). Instead try an offshore server if you wish to test [...]

Founded in 1998, Google turns 12 today Monday 27th of September 2010! Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they created “Google”. The name comes from mathematical term “Googol”, which means 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google’s mission: to [...]

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