Is the mobile workforce a practical reality in corporate South Africa? Elingo's Karl Reed discusses the technicalities of this much touted organisational dream.
One of the most common misconceptions currently at play in the South African economy i...
Many companies today stipulate a need for "investment protection" in their telephony systems. In other words, they want the assurance that their phone system won’t require a full "forklift migration" at upgrade time due to "closed" standards, and t...
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...
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...
The functional evolution of social network platforms has allowed the most successful among them (notably Facebook and Twitter) to become channels for integrated customer engagement via the web.
Social both integrates multiple previously separate ch...
As the after-effects of the global recession continue to suppress demand, many businesses are discovering the benefits of an online strategy.
A great example is British retailer Marks & Spencer. Hard hit throughout the recession, M&S reporte...
I subscribe to quite a few tech, news and other blogs, and not a day goes by where I don't get a little more despondent. Mostly because the news is always the same -- company X released feature Y for product Z. Politician A caught in scandal B involv...
The eventual chaos of an overflowing desk and the lugging around of a ton of books and papers in the library is the bane of every student doing a research article, dissertation or thesis.
Cue Mendeley.com.
Mendeley.com is a research tool which ever...
It's no secret that the web has opened up an exciting world of information. Curiosity piqued? Type it into Google, hit enter and et voila, instant knowledge. But that frontier has been pushed even further with a new web application that makes systema...
This post is born of my curiosity about something quite obviously apparent in the photography industry at present. As more and more cameras are produced, of course the prices get lower, and the entry level cost for aspiring photographers becomes easi...
