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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Fleishman South Africa were kind enough to lend me a Nokia N97 for a couple of weeks. This phone was coming into focus for me as an upgrade competitor to the iPhone 3GS. Add to that, a fairly nifty digital marketing campaign and my interest was pique...
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...
Vodacom launched the iPhone 3GS about a month ago on 28 July, but unfortunately stock was very limited -- in fact, there is still a major shortage of the 3GS in South Africa. (you can read about my mission to get one here, and a bit of well-deser...
I'm excited to be able to share some info relating to a project we're working on that makes it possible for vida e caffe patrons to access HipZone hotspots free of charge. This is all possible through an advertising platform that combines hardware wi...
Last Monday I finally received the HTC Magic (also called the G2) -- a phone I have long been looking forward to, not so much for the hardware, but for the operating system. This is Google's second official iteration of Android, its open source m...
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Since two people I know are now professional iPhone developers, I've taken a bit of a closer look at the App Store, the iPhone and marketing of applications. There are a few things I find interesting:
1) It's essent...
The annual O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference has just closed in New York and as usual it was a digital-publishing feast. Though I didn't get to go myself, the flood of blogging and tweeting that came from the conference kept me happy...
Here in the ebook-making world there's a lot of to and fro about how much design matters when text is getting reflowed in different screens and applications, from tiny phones to 22-inch LCDs. Will book designers have jobs in a publishing world domina...
What do you do with those wasted minutes in a queue, waiting for a train or a meeting, or staring at the cereal box wishing there was something new to read there?
I usually reach for my phone to read, in an activity that's come to be called "inte...
