Tag archive for "Innovation"
What does a $10 Million Lightbulb , The AIDS Vaccine and The 3-D Camera all have in common? They were all hatched in 2009! Despite all sorts of economic turmoils , The year 2009 had also some success stories. A comparatively more positive year 2009 has been to last year interms of both recovery and discovery, [...]
IBM has launched th Cape Town Africa Innovation Center on September 17, 2009. Silicon Cape grows. So far Silicon Cape sports… South Africa’s top Bloggers Amazon’s cloud computing was built here. South Africa’s top online news source (news24) Mark Shuttleworth started here. Vinny Lingham’s clicks2customers, incuBeta and Yola MIH SWAT labs Afrigator and Adgator IBM Africa Innovation Center 20FourLabs This list is far from complete [...]
After the HD vs Blu-Ray disc format wars were over, Blu-ray emerge the clear winner, however soon to be replaced by HVD, but that’s another story. Anywho, it seems we have another technology war upon us, also in the entertainment industry, but this time televisions. The war this time is between Laser TV (currently backed by Mitsubishi, [...]
Innovation is creating something before people know they need it. read more
I’ve been pretty quiet lately, so I thought I’d post a little update about what I’m doing. I’m now expat Capetonian living in Bristol, UK and working with a rapidly growing new company, XMOS. XMOS is a (re)evolutionary fabless semiconductor company that’s doing some pretty cool stuff. XMOS is the creator of Software Defined Silicon (SDS), a [...]
In the 09 micro-predictions for South Africa in ‘09 post #2 was “MXit shall offer peer-to-peer micro-payments (Transfer Moola between contacts), become more ’social’ & adopt QQ monetization techniques.” Imod churned out a series of FNB posts that reeked of advertorial type, paid-for-posts, they weren’t though. One of them mentioned being able to purchase MXit moola [...]
Its a wristband with 4 LED lights… It is also a battery to charge your ipod or cell phone you wear around your wrist. More of us are not wearing watches on our wrists any longer thanks to always being around technology. Your computer tells the time. Your mobile phone tells the time. Your iPod tells [...]
What is next? In the spirit of 2008’s 140 character craze the following 9 predictions for South Africa online in 2009 have all been written in 140 characters. Feel free to add your thoughts on what you expect in 2009 in 140 characters or less by commenting or writing a blog post of your own. Large [...]
Juliana from Afromusing has tagged me in the Why I blog About Africa meme. Why do you blog about Africa? Do we blog for the diaspora and for the world at large, cut off from our contemporary on the continent? Is blogging about Africa done in the same way as blogging about Europe or Asia? Does [...]
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