No, this is not morphing into a sports column. In fact, I’m not much of a sports fan at all, lacking both the fervour of a fan and the attention span needed to keep up. Sign me up for a bout of mixed martial arts, which even at the champion level doesn’t last
Author: James Francis
I’m a security-conscious guy, user of antivirus software and sensible passwords. I still remember my first virus infection, something called Pong or Ping Pong. It spawned bouncing balls all over my CGA screen. For the longest time we thought it was
Later today, Amazon will lift the lid on the size of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the behemoth cloud computing platform that seems to run half the planet. Well, at least a third, the other third
Back in 2009, Google released a fun video showing a team walking around New York, asking pedestrians what a Web browser is. The vast majority of those interviewed seemed to confuse it
A few years ago, I needed a new hard drive for my media centre. It became an agonising ordeal. Storage was expensive, but eventually a 1TB hard drive started costing only around R2 000. I jumped in, bought the drive and never looked back. It was my last personal storage
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Those were the alleged words of John Wanamaker, a US merchant and notable type that lived at the turn of the 20th century. I say “allegedly” because if the Internet has