Align Africa

22/08/2011

13/07/2011

You might not realize it, but you already have the basic building blocks of a connected home, one in which you can communicate with friends, family, and colleagues in remote locations as well as talk to a variety of devices and appliances in your home.

12/07/2011

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The growth in popularity of wireless networking over the past few years has been unsurpassed. With hardware widely available as well as being cheap and easy to operate, most people are seduced by the notion of wireless working. For individuals and companies alike, wireless networking offers a leve

05/07/2011

Copper cables have formed the lifeblood of telephony services for decades and now also underpin fixed broadband internet technologies. Is it time to put copper out to pasture, seeing as we have a range of new, exciting technology such as mobile and fibre with which to replace it. Or, will copper con

26/06/2011

Japanese electronics maker Toshiba was the newest entrant into the WiFi enabled television with a new line up of HTDVs called the Regza WL Series. While the name may have you scratching your head the technology that these televisions pack are nothing to snort at. Toshiba has pulled out all the stops

12/06/2011

With the growth in popularity of home cinemas and domestic computer use in particular, one of the main frustrations faced by domestic techie adopters is the array of cables these developments give rise to. WiGig, the brainchild of the Wireless Gigabit Alliance is a fairly recent development, dating

26/05/2011

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Earlier this year we wrote about fibre to the home (FTTH) and how South Africa was lagging the rest of the continent thanks to the lack of progress in this area. This raised a few eyebrows and got a couple of people scratching their heads – and somewhat understandably so. International bandwidth com

07/05/2011

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http://www.alignafrica.com - Align Africa is the one stop shop for all Internet services in South Africa. Internet access services include Business Uncapped ADSL, HSDPA, GPRS, EDGE, iBurst,

26/04/2011

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If nothing else, the recent spat between Cell C, Vodacom and MTN over Cell C’s use of “4G” in its advertising raised awareness of the next generation of mobile technology with the general public. And with 4G promising us broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps, could it be time to ditch wires forever, and m

18/04/2011

With South African and Zimbabwean abductions and kidnappings being in the news only too often, it really is time for residents of these countries and travellers to these countries to sit up and take heed.

14/04/2011

We have published several articles on Broadband, including one that addressed satellite, ADSL and fibre based broadband technologies. More recently, an article titled “Fibre: South Africa doesn’t need to lag the continent” examined why South Africa should roll out fibre based broadband networks. We

11/04/2011

Cloud computing, according to Wikipedia refers to “the provision of computational resources on demand via a computer network”. Dubbed by many as “computing for the future”, Cloud Computing really is as simple or as complex as you choose to make it. For the purpose of this article, we’re going to l