Navigating Google Maps of Naiorbi
If you’re used to the poor selection of maps for African cities, let me show you the future, today. Google Maps has an amazingly accurate and detailed map...
East African Fiber Goes Live While Benin Goes Dark
To great fanfare the Seacom fiber optic cable from London to South Africa, was turned on this past Thursday. Offering 10,000 Mbps capacity to bandwidth starved...
Less Watts for Better Computing
When you’re working in rural areas, electricity is often very scarce. Your only source of power may be a battery array, which may cost you $10-per-watt to...
Let the East African Bandwidth Pour Forth!
If all goes according to plan, next Thursday July 23, 2009, when the Seacom cable is switched on, Internet bandwidth should pour forth from Mombassa all the way...
SolarNetOne: A Turnkey Internet Hotspot Design
Here is another interesting approach to an all-in-one solar powered computer lab: SolarNetOne
SolarNetOne combines conditioned, renewable power; computers; WiFi;...
More Mobile Phones than Light Bulbs in Uganda
Here’s an interesting data point on the growth of mobile phones in Africa – they may already outnumber light bulbs in Uganda.
New Ugandan light blub
This...
Introducing Google SMS Uganda: Craigslist for Your Phone
I’m very excited to see that Google is taking a serious interest in Africa. From offices in South Africa and Kenya, to an open call for Africans to expand...
Working Offline with Google Earth
As we mentioned in our recent post about testing WiFi antennas across the San Francisco Bay, we at Inveneo rely heavily on Google Earth to better understand the...
Dish vs Patch: WiFi Shootout Across San Francisco Bay
Most of the time, when our Inveneo engineers are setting up WiFi antennas it’s to link schools or villages in rural Africa. Sometimes, though, we get to do...
Bay Area WiFi Antenna Shootout
Testing the 24 dBi grid antenna
Most of the time, when our Inveneo engineers are setting up WiFi antennas it’s to link schools or villages in rural Africa. ...
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