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Day 1 – Futurex 2007: Anthony Fitzhenry on the Technology Trends

Anthony Fitzhenry, CEO of Axiz, and IT Personality of the Year 2006, delivered the opening address at the annual Futurex Conference. The conference is co-located with the Futurex and Equip exhibition, which is possibly the biggest ICT exhibition in Africa. This is really a stunning presentation because it is about you, the consumer and eventually leads you into the opportunities for South African entrepreneurs. The biggest one in my opinion is really creating content for mobile platforms like cellphones and also developing more sophisticated applications like MXit for business or more specifically mobile commerce Read More →

Blogging the Futurex Conference 2007

Futurex ConferenceThe Futurex Exhibition is the biggest ICT event of the year. And it coincides with World Telecomms Day on 17 May. Futurex is also the merger of the old Computer Faire and Tel.Com Exhibition run by Computer Society up until the merger. And with the exhibition there is also the Futurex Conference that takes place annually. I'll be blogging this conference over the next two day... Here's some more background information:

Programme Outline

A four part conference over two days, each part a stand alone, but linked by common threads: urgency Read More →

The Warren Buffet Way by Robert Hagestrom

ISBN 0471743674 Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2nd edition, 2005.

Warren Buffet is the greatest investor alive today. His track record speaks for itself and this book goes some small way towards explaining the inner workings of this investment genius. A few years ago I passed on buying Buffettology because I thought I wasn't ready for it and now found this book from my best friend Vergal Walton (checkout his new Jack Higgins website coming Read More →

John Farquhar speaks out on future of Newspapers

John FarquharI received this response from John Farquhar after I emailed him about Duncan McLeod in Financial Mail's column Newspapers R.I.P. Thanks for the link to Mcleods column There are two kind of people in business. Those who live in the real world and those who fantasise about tomorrow's where the old will be replaced by the new. As a Sci-Fi fan I was always fascinated by the gadgets the writers dreamt up, and looking back many of their imaginary gadgets have become reality. While Read More →

Big News Google Buys Youtube for $1.6 billion

I've been a user of Google Video and Youtube for several months now. Maybe I am fortunate here in South Africa because I've had an ADSL link for more then 2 years and I recently got a Wifi networking going. So I'm surfing the net all the time for cool things. A big distraction is video content. You don't have to read much, and the images actually move around ;-) How entertaining is this? Well very, very, very entertaining and extremely addictive. In a news report on The Register, a leading UK technology news website, Mark Cuban ridiculed the Google/Youtube Read More →
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