It’s hard to think that just 15 years ago, Apple was staring bankruptcy in the face. What followed, under the leadership of Steve Jobs, has become one of the most celebrated turnaround stories in modern business. At more than US$550bn, Apple today is the biggest listed company on the planet by market value
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Justin Arenstein, 42, is an award-winning journalist, digital media strategist and media rights activist who believes the media’s role may become less one of reportage and more one of analysis as digital media grows and traditional media is forced to adapt or close shop. Key to the shift that Arenstein believes is
It’s been a busy year for Microsoft. The company has taken the wraps off Windows 8, talked up its forthcoming Surface tablet computers, bought enterprise social network Yammer, made updates to its search service Bing and commercially launched its cloud-based Office 365 suite
The ZA Tech Show has a packed panel this week, with Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Simon Dingle discussing the craziness of patents in the mobile industry, Android updates and fragmentation, Pieter Uys’s resignation as Vodacom CEO, iPhone coming to Cell C, Windows 8, and lots more
A local technology start-up wants to take the hassle and confusion out of filing tax returns using the SA Revenue Service’s eFiling platform. Marc Sevitz and Evan Robinson, both 28, started TaxTim last year. The two pitched the idea to Google’s Umbono
In mid-June 2012, when the big Internet players revealed their cards in the highest stakes game in Web history, the best Africa could come up with was four predictable geographic generic top-level domains, namely .joburg, .durban, .capetown and .africa. There were also a few applications from our pals over at
These are dark days for BlackBerry and Research in Motion (RIM). Though the Canadian company’s smartphones continue to sell well in some emerging markets, including SA, consumers at the higher end — they are the more profitable segment for handset
The Web, with all its hazards, is the new playground for children, a Google SA official said on Wednesday. “Like in any playground, you don’t abandon your children, but supervise and check how they are playing there,” the search engine’s public manager, Fortune Sibanda, told a conference on child abuse in
Google has launched its Map Maker service in SA. It allows users to add locations and information to Google Maps via a peer-reviewed process. The crowd-sourcing of information from local users will provide Google and its users with
Google has expanded its live traffic coverage, where traffic information is overlaid on its Maps service, to include Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. The service is available when using Google Maps online. The service works by crowd-sourcing information about