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...
Quite often one hears the argument that this or that technology may work wonders elsewhere, "just not in my company or industry". The problem, one hears, is that "we're too boring for Facebook", that "our customers aren't mobile and print their email...
I'm on an internet ranting mission. I'm amazed at the lack of understanding in the market about how internet access is charged for and how people are getting ripped.
Had a conversation with someone the other day who said MWeb uncapped was competit...
Mandy de Waal speaks to The Internet & Social Media Guy, Andy Hadfield about online banking trends.
What's the biggest challenge facing banks in this country and the world over? Simplicity.
As the world and the internet become more compl...
A while back I wrote about the Battle of the Browsers between Opera's Opera, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox versus Microsoft's Internet Explorer. From the look of things, the axis of good have won with the recent announcement by Microsoft that...
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...
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...
We have seen the internet grow up quite quickly and the technology used to power websites has become so amazingly powerful that the internet is no longer made up of glorified business cards, but highly programmable interfaces for a global community.
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Jerry Yang will be stepping down as Yahoo! CEO in the near future; as soon as they find a capable replacement. In an email to the employees, he says the decision to step down was taken jointly with the board. In translation: the board gave a vote of ...
In honour of Google’s 10th birthday, the company has released their oldest available search index to the public. You can search on it and it will provide results based on 2001 data. It is very interesting to note the differences in the results that...
