South Africa’s online environment has evolved significantly in recent years. The number of people with access to the Internet has grown tremendously, and the ways in which people access information and knowledge differ quite markedly compared to just a
Full credit has to go to Telkom communications head Jacqui O’Sullivan for coming out swinging to my recent criticism of its enterprise development (ED) initiatives. It is just a pity that her argument didn’t make sense. As a quick rewind, I made
It’s installed on a billion computers around the globe, but before the end of this decade Adobe Flash will be dead. After two decades of ubiquity, the Flash platform is finally collapsing under its own weight. Flash Player used to be everywhere. You used it to
Carlos Rey-Moreno, senior researcher at the University of the Western Cape, is involved in a fascinating project to extend affordable connectivity – voice and data – to the remote and desperately poor
Anyone who has recently spent time in Kenya, Zimbabwe or Tanzania will have noticed the pervasive influence of mobile money on everyday life. People use it for a wide range of purposes from buying airtime to paying taxi drivers to making loan repayments
The 90-day period for public comment on the Film & Publication Board’s draft online regulation policy ended yesterday, and it is already clear that opposition to the draft policy from industry, civil
Annual reports are far more useful than establishing what a chief executive earned a year ago. Nevertheless, that’s about all the attention these documents get these days from journalists (mostly from wire services, given the steep cuts to most newsrooms)
I love the cloud. To me it is a great solution to a problem that has been dogging computer users for decades: what to do with all the data? Raise your hand if you have lost a bunch of personal data because of a hard drive crash. Now keep it there if you can
It seems that on a monthly basis we hear of a “revolution” in the mobile device industry, either from manufacturers touting the latest and greatest flagship smartphone or from analysts punting the
So, Ahmad Farroukh, MTN South Africa’s CEO of the past 11 months, is leaving at the end of July. His tenure has been rocky, to say the least. He was brought in to turn around the troubled operator
