Communications technology, such as the internet and mobile phones, certainly make life easier: from online banking, to staying in touch, to news and weather on the go and all the other benefits that have become such an integral part of our daily live...
When we were children the standing joke was that the kids had to set the video machine for their non-technical parents. We’d grown up with video machines, while for our parents they were still new-fangled devices. Fast forward to today and consider...
M-novels, or mobile novels (stories on your cellphone) are on the rise in South Africa, as Michelle Matthews explained so well in "Cell-lit is all the rage". In SA there is about 10% PC-based internet connectivity, while the number of people with acc...
Although MXit is an exciting development in the South African social media space, it has suffered from a lot of FUD.
As per Wikipedia, FUD is “Fear, uncertainty and doubt: a tactic of rhetoric used in sales, marketing, public relations.” I bel...
MXit, the very cheap, very popular mobile instant messaging (MIM) application (that is actually a lot more), is coming of age.
To clear the way for the rest of the discussion, I am aware of the dangers and risks of MXit: addicts -- teens and work...
