In the last post, I was quite excited by the application of location-based services in a community that has the infrastructure to generate enough traffic. I'd like to temper that exuberance with some considered thinking. It involves a good story, and...
Checked into my first hotel in Austin, a little one night stop before hitting the Hampton Inn and Suites with the rest of the SA delegation. My bag didn't arrive -- which carries on a long and stormy relationship I have with baggage. And airlines. Ah...
So I'm winging my way off to Austin, Texas for the SXSW Conference. I'm on the connection flight via Atlanta, blogging this while 30000 feet or more in the air. Yup. Go Go Wifi on Delta flights. I'll do a speed test ;)
(Update: Speed Test gave me...
And we're off. I'm sitting at OR Tambo airport, having a farewell Castle Draught before embarking on a mind-numbing, Stillnox induced flight to Atlanta and then Austin. Bumped into Mike Stopforth. He was having lamb shank. Something I don't know?
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Microsoft is one of those companies that always seems to carry the weight of the computing world -- and rightly so. If you think of any area within computing, MS somehow has a finger in the pie. In some areas of course, they are the pie.
Credit ...
The eventual chaos of an overflowing desk and the lugging around of a ton of books and papers in the library is the bane of every student doing a research article, dissertation or thesis.
Cue Mendeley.com.
Mendeley.com is a research tool which ever...
I do get tired of the frantic "trending" that occurs at the beginning and end of every year. Hence, I tend to sit back, take it all in and try give a summarised, more considered view a month or so later. Call it cutting through the clutter, if you wi...
So what is my opinion of the iPad? Well first off, I do like it. Despite all its shortcomings, I think it might be a game-changing device.
I read somewhere that the iPhone should be renamed the iPad Nano. And that might be a very apt description, ...
By Richard Catto
This month Google announced via its official blog that it would no longer be co-operating with China over the issue of filtering search engine results on Google.cn (which is the localised Chinese version of Google's search engine)...
Once in a while a game-changing product comes along that makes you rethink conventions that are pretty much hardwired into our routines. This is immediately apparent in the consumption of media -- be it music, movies or print. With the dawn of th...
