About a week ago I went up to Mtunzini to visit the cable station that recently finished construction. Seacom is an underwater fibre-optic cable being installed along the coast of East Africa -- a tremendous boost for all the countries affected. When...
Inspired by Rudoph Van Den Burg's riff on Jeremy Clarkson's TopGear Cool Wall I thought a Cool Wall for the South African telecommunications and Internet community might be fun to do. For those who haven't seen it, the TopGear Cool Wall ranks automo...
It’s taken me more than a little while to get round to breaking the seal on this blog. For openers, I'm taking the easy way out and plumping for a rant about two South African business sectors whose digital incarnations leave a lot to be desired.
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On Wednesday this week, the City of Cape Town gave the final approval to launch its groundbreaking municipal Broadband Infrastructure Project. Over the next two years, the City of Cape Town will invest close to R300-million in creating a state-of-the...
While 2007 was one of the most exciting years in the online marketing space internationally, I've been wondering what 2008 will hold in store for South Africa.
Here are a few of my thoughts on what we can expect:
1. Watch out for Google South A...
If Facebook is revealing about individuals, it is no less so about countries. South Africa may have startled the world with the number of its people engaged in social networking, but now it can offer as much of a surprise about the quality of our bro...
The mainstream media have been reporting lately that Facebook, the popular social networking application that lets you swap digital "secreta" with your long-lost friends, is being banned by more and more businesses in South Africa.
The banks are s...
