It’s the listicle time of year again. What is a listicle? Mash together the words List and Article and you have yourself a Listicle. This term is often used in a deprecating way, to describe an article or news story which required very little effort to produce. If you call digging through a year’s worth [...]
Summer in Cape Town. Do not expect many updates… Am changing a few things in the background. 2012 will be the year technology will be used for real change in our every day lives. Don’t believe the hype or the PResstitutes. Video via Mandy de Waal.
MXit used to be the topic almost every jounrno used to love slating in the press, this was mainly due to FUD, but lately every single news/media/blog with anything closely related to South African technology hails them as the darlings of SA tech. Hypocritical much? The positive attention MXit is getting everywhere is great and [...]
RSAweb (Web AddiCT(s); cloud server bandwidth sponsor) have just announced South Africa’s first Microsoft Windows Cloud Server offering. Last year they pioneered South Africa’s first true Cloud hosting platform, allowing users to deploy and provision fully operational Linux servers in seconds. 1273 Linux Cloud Servers have been deployed to date. We value all the feedback [...]
When most people watch the above video about Mobile Stats in Africa 2011 many think of opportunities to only milk that huge audience. The Praekelt Foundation are different. They build open source, scalable mobile technologies and solutions to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in poverty. Launched at Tech4Africa 2011, Ummeli is a [...]
Did that headline catch your attention? It could have called used ‘monitor your child’s safety with Mobiflock’ but you probably wouldn’t have been reading this. Mobiflock allows parents to play Big Brother (not the reality show) or should we call Mobiflock Big Mother? If the safety of your child is at stake and you live [...]
For those of you looking for Duck Sauce… here is the Barbara Streisand video. If you’ve not heard of the Streisand Effect before skip the Duck Sauce Video and keep reading. Or play the video while reading This blog has been quiet. Why? I’ve had to deal with a 17 page lawyers letter based on [...]
I really really really loathe traveling to Johannesburg. It’s ugly, traffic kills me and there are no mountains. It’s all about the mountains. I have nothing against the residents of the massive city though. The one reason and only reason (for me) to go to Jozi is to attend Tech4Africa. Previously covered here. Tech4Africa promises [...]
One of the perks of speaking at conferences like WordCamp Cape Town is being able to listen to other speakers share their knowledge and stories. One of the best presentations I had the privilege to listen too was David Perel’s “Post Boxes to Inboxes” story of how they pivoted from a bespoke cold fusion CMS/web [...]
Nokia Lumia comes to South Africa
SEDA Small Business Stars R4 Million Business Plan Competition
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