Google Satellite bandwidth details

fz1 said:
The article is vague by referring to 'meg'. In fact, "meg", in the computing context, is an abbreviation of Megabyte. The article meant to refer to cost per Megabit, but it's easy to see how it could be interpreted as cost per Megabyte, which is something us South Africans, quite unfortunately, have to keep top of mind - lest we go bankrupt...
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Thank you ;)
 
I think that this is great news! The more bandwidth the better. It will also be a great backup to the fibre cables. Look at what happened earlier this year (or was it last year) in the east when all the cables were cut. Ivy can wade out into the ocean to cut the cables but it is a lot more difficult to fire rockets at 8 satellites ;)
 
Is it only me!

rpm said:
Google Satellite bandwidth details
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Is it only me? Or is someone Plagiarizing? Worst part plagiarize grammatical errors as well? MyBroadband need to categorize its news articles and reference them. When I'm on the site, reading news articles, sometimes I feel that someone has been hard at copying and pasting. It would be better to use feeds...Take IOLtechnology.co.za site, they have news articles researched and written by IOL staff, and then they have feeds for other technology articles from other websites.

Anyways, myBroadband's forum rocks, I can't imagine any better community forum than this.

By the way, the question above, I'm referring to this link http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/current1.html

Funny thing, another mybroadband article http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/5376.html and its international counterpart http://www.telecomredux.co.uk/content/view/5693/6/ another carbon copy http://point-topic.com/content/dslanalysis/chinavus.htm

Maybe this is a new trend of internet journalism.....
 
Hi News24

We have syndication rights to content from various sources, including Balancingact-Africa. This is fairly standard practice for publications, both online and print.

If you look at Balancingact-Africa, which you quoted, you will notice basically all their news comes from syndicated sources (including one article from MyBroadband). If you look at IOLTechnology, most of their content comes from syndicated sources as well - there is in fact not a single original article on IOLTechnology when I checked this morning (Tectonic, AFP, Reuters).

You will further notice that both the journalist and the publication are credited on MyBroadband. Plagiarism refers to something very different.

So to answer your question: It is not a new trend in Internet journalism, but rather an old trend in content distribution and content syndication agreements.
 
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Call me awesome...but I dont care about grammar. Give me news biatches and a chance to voice my mindless rant in a forum and I'm content dont even care about the sources as long as its factual
 
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