By Muggie van Staden
One of the biggest misconceptions about open source software (OSS) in the enterprise is that it is software that can be rolled out without the involvement of a vendor. But in reality, in any enterprise software deployment, the...
By Wogan May
Exciting things have happened in the last few months. Apple's released the iPad, a device (or platform, if you will) that's already beginning to shape consumer demand and expectations. Other vendors are scrambling to catch up, with HP...
Tuesday 4am, I'm on the road to the Happy Valley[1] community in deep rural KZN. For tomorrow evening Happy Valley Private School has planned a certificate ceremony where I must present some course certificates. This is the final stage of a teacher t...
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...
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...
Submitted by Tendai Chiguware
I have to admit I was not one of the first people to download Linux Ubuntu 8.04 when it was released some time last year. The reason was that I already had Ubuntu 7.01 Ultimate Gamers Edition (which I believe is the b...
The social media buzz is barely dying down as more and more mainstream companies jump on the well-oiled bandwagon that has been created in the last couple of years. There is, however, one problem the social media gurus never told us -- harnessing the...
Recycled information seems to be the nature of the blogging world. Be that as it may, not everyone feeds off content from the same sources, and sometimes things you would have wanted to know slip through the cracks.
Today they announced on the Wor...
Since this is my first post on Tech Leader, I thought I couldn't go wrong with a top ten list. Don't worry, I'll try not to do it too often.
This list of software consists of tools I use almost every day. Some of them are better than their proprie...
There's been loads of discussion lately about using Wordpress as a CMS platform. The recent Wordpress meetup held in Cape Town saw some discussion around the the topic. Adii presented a very compelling argument for the fact that Wordpress is essentia...
