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Andy Hadfield
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... |
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Views: 26 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010 | Tags: sxsw, sxsw South Africa
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Andy Hadfield
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... |
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Views: 28 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010 | Tags: sxsw, sxsw South Africa
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Andy Hadfield
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... |
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Views: 22 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010 | Tags: sxsw, sxsw South Africa
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Andy Hadfield
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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Views: 26 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010 | Tags: sxsw, sxsw South Africa
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Minnaar Pieters
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.
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Views: 735 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: innovation, iPhone, Microsoft, South Africa, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, XBox 360
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Andy Hadfield
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... |
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Views: 258 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010 | Tags: cellphone, digital, engagement, mobile, news, social media, South Africa, Strategy
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Reader Blog
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)... |
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Views: 240 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, January 18th, 2010 | Tags: censorship, China, Gmail, security, United States, YouTube
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Minnaar Pieters
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... |
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Views: 568 | 4 Comments » | posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Kindle
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Reader Blog
By Richard Catto
Like most avid computer users, the whole concept of trashing my computer and reinstalling everything from scratch is not something I relish doing because it is a task fraught with many technical difficulties that could easily leav... |
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Views: 796 | 8 Comments » | posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Tags: Linux, Windows 7, XP
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Minnaar Pieters
Today Google released enhancements of two of their products which seems pretty normal by the looks of it. However, these two updates were targeted primarily as a move to trounce Apple. These two applications are Picasa (a free photo managing an... |
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Views: 1501 | 4 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Apple, geotag, Gmail, Google, iPhone, Picasa
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