SMS remains the most popular two-way communication platform on the planet. In most cases, it’s inexpensive, casual, and discreet for users. It also represents one of the more profitable features offered by mobile network operators. And while SMS does face an increasingly fractured market, largely from the growth of messaging apps, it’s not going anywhere…
Here’s my first interview in 2013 with the Weekend Post newspaper’s John Harvey. LOVE it or hate it, social media is here to stay and will continue to revolutionise the way we communicate. Initially the preserve of well-to-do college students (as was the case with Microsoft and Apple before them), platforms like Facebook and Twitter…
Google puts together an awesome video as they released their 2012 Search Zeitgeist. The video below is a short 2 min summary and features among other people South Africa’s blade runner Oscar Pistorius. There’s not much I can add to the emotional content in this Youtube video. As we’re approaching the Dec 21, 2012 aka…
Right now at a UN meeting in Dubai, authoritarian regimes are pushing for full governmental control of the Internet in a binding global treaty — if they succeed, the internet could become less open, more costly and much slower. We have only 2 days to stop them. The Internet has been an amazing example of…
An estate agent was dismissed after he praised alleged “Modimolle Monster” Johan Kotze, on social media network Facebook, it was reported on Saturday. George Stegmann from Bloemfontein, Free State, was dismissed from Aida on Wednesday when a newspaper reported on the comments he posted on Facebook, the Beeld reported. Stegmann apparently wrote: “You women think…