"This week, a South African call-center business, frustrated by persistently slow Internet speeds, decided to use a carrier pigeon named Winston to transfer 4 gigabytes of data between two of its offices, just 50 miles apart. At the same time, a computer geek pushed a button on his computer to send data the old-fashioned way, through the Internet. Winston the pigeon won. It wasn’t even close."
— Homing pigeon faster than Internet? In S. Africa, the answer’s yes. | csmonitor.com : I like how the article lists the pigeon’s name.
