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« on: September 11, 2009, 10:05:37 AM »
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data !

See:-   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8248056.stm

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