Live-Blogging the Gartner Africa Symposium 2008

 For the next few days, I am live-blogging the Gartner Africa Symposium at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The Economist Intelligence Unit has declared 2008 to be the year of the emerging market. They are not alone in this prediction. Emerging economies present companies with some of the biggest opportunities for growth this year. […]

Qhubeka moving South Africa forward with Nine Million Bicycles

 The song Nine Million Bicycles by Katie Melua is perhaps not the most inspirational song in the world. However, it does make you feel good, if you are even just a little bit as nostalgic as I am. Recently the Facebook social networking website has moved from a boring distraction to a powerful communication tool […]

How to choose ISP or consumer Internet access in South Africa

This is a portion of an interview for Huisgenoot magazine from 2007. I’m not even sure if it was ever published because the journalist was forced to redo the initial interview, which focussed on Skype to include a few questions about Internet access.

Algoa Sun interview with Ramon Thomas

 The following interview was published on page 8 of the 31 July 2008 issue of the Algoa Sun, a community newspaper in Port Elizabeth. The title for the article was a fascinating choice by the editor: The Ethics of IT Dating. I will add a scanned copy of the interview with their own intro to […]

Worm attacks Facebook, MySpace users running Microsoft Windows

 Gareth Roberts, a new member of the team here at NETucation,  alerted me to a new computer worm that attacks Facebook and MySpace users. One very important piece of information left out of most of the news reports on News24 or MyADSL is that only users running Microsoft Windows are prone to this attract. Facebook […]