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  BBC NEWS | Technology | Africa waiting for net revolution 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7063682.stm

  More than a third of Africa's citizens should have access to broadband internet by 2012, a conference of technology leaders is set to hear. Fewer than four out of 100 Africans currently use the internet, ... and broadband penetration is below 1%. The barriers to broadband access are key talking points at the Connect Africa meeting in Kigali, in Rwanda. Dr Hamadoun Toure, head of the International Telecommunication Union has called for "immediate action". The conference features representations from organisations such as the World Bank, World Health Organization and United Nations, as well as high-profile technology leaders such as Intel's chairman Craig Barrett. The attendees were all invited to make financial commitments to improving technology and telecoms in the continent. More than $3bn has been pledged so far. Dr Toure said that despite the bleak picture of access issues in Africa there was plenty of opportunity. He told the BBC News website: "If you have just 1% of broadband access t   [More...] [Less...]

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  PC World - The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances 

  http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,138872/printable.html

  The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances The new, improved Web won't deserve that name until sites make clear what they do with your private data. And online tech support gets a lot better. And... Ryan Naraine In ... its relatively short life, the World Wide Web has already made many of our most mundane, tedious tasks quicker and easier to perform. But there are still a surprising number of activities--from helping us buy concert tickets to protecting our privacy--that, for one reason or another, the Web still can't get right, stirring the ire of even the most patient users. We look at ten of the worst of them. Beyond obvious, nagging problems such as e-mail spam, phishing lures, viruses, and spyware, a great many commonplace online frustrations--some dating all the way back to the earliest days of the Web--remain unfixed. We asked visitors at our online forums to identify what they consider the most dysfunctional aspects of the Web; then . For each difficulty, we identified an "aggravation factor"--   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 30 October 2007, by: Nik Petrovic  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  web, web 2.0, internet, browsers, top 10 , new web, browser, online, digital business   [More...] [Less...]