About two years ago, I received a call from a colleague of mine who was also a non-executive director on the ICDL Foundation in Cape Town. It was strange because I would have assumed calling me from his cellphone would be reasonably priced. For the longest time, I’ve had the default belief that landline to…
Skype allows users to make telephone calls from their computer to other Skype users free of charge, or to landlines and cell phones for a fee. Unlike most other VOIP (Voice-over-Internet) software, Skype uses a peer-to-peer model, which is the most efficient way for transferring large amounts of data over the Internet, in a distributed…
1. How does communication technology change the interaction of people (for example: from as young as 11 years children start to MXit and spend as much as 3 hours per day in their own virtual world.. But on Facebook long lost friends can keep in contact. Kindly give positive and negative comment) Technology allows people…
This month we discussed the importance of Social networking profiles and how to link it with your blog. For the last few months, since TEDGlobal and Henry Addo, a blogger from Ghana, and I have been having regular discussions via Skype on Blogging. Currently, Skype allows a maximum of 9 people on a Conference Call…