I recently had a conversation with some people at Google about mobile applications for sub-Saharan Africa. Two key issues emerged: i) South Africa is ahead of the pack in terms of cellphone adoption, coverage and services, and ii) the lowest common d...
As more and more of our world is digitised -- sales, maps, encyclopaedias, books, music, phone calls, radio, TV, you name it, it travels digitally -- companies constantly have to choose what to automate and what has to be done by human beings. In oth...
A few months ago, an article was published titled Google's search dominance, stating the following:
According to Masie, a sixth of all internet searches in South Africa come from mobile devices, the highest ratio in the world. To ensure that it l...
According to the Young Digital Mavens survey conducted on around 1 000 American and 1 000 Chinese youths, aged:
Millions of young Chinese are embracing the internet as a discreet space for their thoughts and emotions -- almost five times as many Chi...
Science fiction is not normally my first choice of reading material, unless of course it is about the trips through galaxy as described by a very funny writer called Douglas Adams. But I have been converted to the modern Cory Doctorow-style science f...
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...
Predictions for 2008? Highlights of 2007? I'm sitting in Brighton, speculating about this. Candles are lit, the Christmas tree is still OK, although the needles are starting to moult quite rapidly. And it has roots, so we hope to plant it out in a fo...
It’s that time of year again when the predictions brigade publish its wise thoughts for 2008. Wipe off the crystal ball, bring out the Tarot cards, throw "dem" bones. Do whatever you think might help you to peer through the fog and work out what th...
Yesterday was a fun day. I was offered an LG Viewty phone to play with and to comment on, and it’s a fine-looking phone. And I get to keep it. I am beyond tickled pink. I am tickled all the shades of the rainbow. Why the excessive celebrations, one...
An interesting article by an AP reporter talks about the decline in PC sales in Japan. It comes just a few days after a debate with some friends found us mulling over the same issue. My idea that the life of the PC was limited and that the computer a...
