Isolated applications give no hint of massive legwork and explosive potential
The emergence of location-based services (LBS) on mobile phones is a much more important development than currently seems to be the case.
While novelty applications like...
The mercurial world of the internet remains a catalyst for change. In recent history, iTunes, the seminal digital music download platform, has turned music distribution upside down.
Now, with e-books poised to hit the mainstream, we're on the eve...
By Gareth Knight
New international submarine communication cables are starting to ring the continent, bringing with them the promise of cheaper broadband across the continent. That means Africa will soon have the infrastructure to compete more eff...
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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The race to own the social profile
Companies, brands and start-ups are waking up to the fact that there's a really easy way to disintermediate service providers. Own the social profile, not the mother brand. Look what Mint.com is doing in the US f...
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...
On Twitter today, Web Goldenboy Charl Norman posed the question: "When will Twitter innovate?"
(Watch this video if you're unfamiliar with Twitter)
I suspect that Charl means to ask when Twitter will add more features, such as those seen in Plu...
Well-run smaller companies are often agile and responsive, in short, they are communication innovators -- more so when compared to the giant corporate dinosaurs at the top of the financial food chain. This realisation became most apparent after a rec...
Apple has established itself on a very premium platform -- all style, design and brilliant functionality. After the iPod, the brand image has hardly seen even the slightest decline in its brand equity. The launch of the iPhone and the Macbook Air, ...
"Radical innovation never originates with the market leader" -- Jim Utterback, MIT
Did you know Mitch Kapor tried to license 1-2-3 to IBM for $3,5-million in the 1980s? They told him that hardware was a multibillion-dollar industry, and that the m...
