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Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a way to get not one, but two degrees out it. She blogs with moderate regularity and tweets with alarming consistency and works tirelessly at memeburn.com.Mich also sometimes writes for CNN on tech and startups in Africa.
Running your own business is hard work, especially when that business has been named Digital Agency of the Year six years running. Gloo, founded in 2005, is not what one would typically call a startup, as it's a service-based business rather than a product driven one.The company is one of the most successful advertising agencies in South Africa and was recognised as such last year when it was named overall "Ad Agency of the Year" by AdReview Awards.Read more ...
In a bid to make Windows 8 more attractive Microsoft is pushing the consumerisation of tech. The company has identified that it needs to widen the ecosystem of computers where any type of product and device can be connected to the internet.At TechEd, the company's Africa leg of its annual developer conference, head of Windows business group Colin Erasmus and Bruce Murphy, product marketing manager for Windows commercial, outlined some of the key trends that are driving tech consumerisation. ...
Even in an age of Anonymous, dirty hackers, and constantly evolving malware, there are still computers out there that aren't secure. According to Microsoft, one in every four computers in South Africa is unprotected.At this year's TechEd Africa, the Redmond-based company presented its key findings from Microsoft’s Security Intelligence Report volume 14 (SIRv14). The report emphasises the need for up-to-date real-time antivirus or anti-malware protection."Without this vital protection layer, these systems are five times more likely to be infected ...
When you spend more than a billion dollars on a social platform, make sure you do something amazing with it. Microsoft seems to be doing that with Yammer.Enterprise communication has evolved in the last few years moving from phone, email, instant messaging, voice and video and now social networking.Microsoft is making strides to dominate the enterprise scene, and it seems its acquisition of enterprise social network Yammer the tool it plans on using to do so. According to Michael ...
For Microsoft, Windows 8 is the future of computing, so the tech giant is doing everything it can make sure people use it.At Microsoft's Africa edition of its TechEd conference, there was some buzz around one of the ways it is trying to make this happen -- namely, Windows to Go.The company launched Windows To Go (WTG), an operating system on the go, not too long ago. According to Microsoft, Windows To Go is a "fully manageable, corporate image installed ...
South Africans brace yourselves. It seems Microsoft is finally taking the Surface to Africa. That's according to a tweet from the company's South African MD Mteto Nyati.Nyati is currently at MS HQ in Redmond and sent out a tweet today saying that the RT and Pro versions of the tablet would be arriving the country in the latter part of 2013.@microsoftsa will launch Surface in the 2nd half of 2013 -- responding to our customers.— Mteto Nyati (@mteton) ...
Twitter is frantic with news of the explosions in Boston during the city's historic marathon. According to reports two people have died from the blasts near the finish line, while dozens more have been reported injured.According to CNN the explosions happened at about 2:45pm "more than two hours after the first of the race's nearly 27 000 runners had crossed the finish line".Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley, who ran the marathon, tweeted from the scene reporting on new ...
We all know about the king of social networking: Facebook, with its billion plus users. Then there is Twitter, Linkedin, Google+ and the major Chinese social networks like Renren and Sina Weibo. Then there are the outsider social networks, the medium sized ones which have strong brand recognition -- that's where StumbleUpon plays.Most people won't be able to explain what a discovery engine is, but you might find that some of those people are part of StumbleUpon's 25-million ...
In the world of startups, quick thinking is important and a willingness to keep learning should be a given. So are you pondering what I am pondering? I am fascinated by the television show Pinky and the Brain -- the complete lunacy of it.In every episode Brain hatches a new plan in his never-ending quest to take over the world, which ultimately ends in failure. More often than not this is due to Pinky's idiocy, the sheer impossibility of ...
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