When MWeb announced uncapped internet in this country, the market went crazy. Competitors followed with similar offerings within days and analysts announced the breaking of a new dawn. Most people failed to mention that it was a rip-off and in everyo...
After all the euphoria, back-patting and chest-thumping of the MWeb uncapped DSL offering, which spurred on other ISPs to follow suit, we are now going through the first major test of what happens when real service delivery (this time not the governm...
I had a very strange experience today. It was a warm winter's day, and we had a fire going outside. Glass of wine in hand, I was fiddling around with my iPhone (as one does -- usually to one's wife's discontent) -- specifically a cult favourite app o...
The topic of traditional versus digital marketing continues to be a talking point especially among digital marketers.
The ongoing debate of effectively planning and buying media online and the problems encountered with traditional media agencies i...
Recent media reports that have received international exposure have indicated that Deputy Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba is spearheading a bill, drafted and spurred on by the Justice Alliance of South Africa (Jasa) and its missionary director Jo...
I subscribe to quite a few tech, news and other blogs, and not a day goes by where I don't get a little more despondent. Mostly because the news is always the same -- company X released feature Y for product Z. Politician A caught in scandal B involv...
At first glance, Microsoft needs to make a very convincing argument to make people take note of Office 2010. After all, it's just another release of Office. Just about anyone would agree that Microsoft Office is by far the most feature-ri...
By Muggie van Staden
One of the biggest misconceptions about open source software (OSS) in the enterprise is that it is software that can be rolled out without the involvement of a vendor. But in reality, in any enterprise software deployment, the...
Social media is almost as ubiquitous as the cellular phone (if it isn't, it will be soon).
The widespread ease of setting up your business in the social universe and the inherent low cost in doing so, has spawned many attempts both successful and s...
It's official (and somewhat obvious, really) -- cloud computing is on the rise. Tasks that used to be relegated to the desktop are finding new homes in the cloud, from document creation and media sharing, to running entire companies.
And with that...
