Calling for a Business Blogging Conference in South Africa
Early in September, I was a speaker at the 2nd Digital Citizens Indaba. Last year, this conference was immensely valuable to me because it presented an opportunity to meet many of my fellow bloggers from across the African continent. This year me I realised the greater need to teach people how to use blogging to […]
Mobile porn market set to explode
This is not surprising news for me because my associate, Arthur Goldstuck, has made a similar prediction back in February 2005. This website is not about morality, but it is about reality. And all you have to do in South Africa is look at the explicit adverts on late-night TV, especially eTV, and you will […]
Mobility 2006: Paris Mashile, Complexities of regulating costs for telecommunications in South Africa
The chairperson of ICASA, Mr. Paris Mashile, addressed the opening session of the Mobility 2006 conference. Despite being accused a “loser” for delaying the introduction of mobile number portability by the current edition of Financial Mail today. His address was largely to justify state-heavy regulation within the mobile industry in favour of protecting the consumers. […]
Finally the Telecoms Action Group launches
I’m reposting this message from the Tectonic, open-source newsletter and website. I’ve always believed the way to get a response is to model our campaign on the Treatment Action Campaign, the well-known AIDS lobby group. Richard Frank got people talking this week with his proposal to launch an advert campaign to demand better and cheaper […]
Mobile Instant Messaging Platform MXIT
MXIT Lifestyle, a Stellenbosch-based company, launched MXIT, an instant messaging platform, about 12 months ago. It’s been in development for a few years and must be one of the greatest success stories of its kind ever to come from South Africa because it is experiencing incredible growth. Today I interviewed the CEO, Herman Heunis. And […]