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Steven Ambrose is the CEO of Strategy Worx. Strategy Worx specialises in strategic consulting and decision support for organisations seeking to pursue hi-tech strategies. Strategy Worx is licensed to conduct the Webagility Web Site Auditing system by World Wide Worx.Steven is a rather lateral thinking Chartered Accountant with deep experience in technology, marketing, and running start-ups, as well as large divisions of major corporations. As senior consultant and analyst at World Wide Worx and now his own consultancy Strategy Worx, Steven delves into the high tech universe in an attempt to simplify and highlight the challenges that businesses small and large are facing in our high tech world.Music, water sports, and his family, are his overriding passions, though technology comes close. Steven keeps in touch with the latest gadgets by writing reviews on www.gadget.co.za the oldest gadget website in South Africa, and talking tech on radio and TV.
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Clever move by Facebook. Launching an app on Android that takes over the device and makes it a comfy home for Facebook. And to boot, they called it Facebook Home. Should Google be worried? Should anyone else be concerned for that matter? All these are pertinent questions and the advice ranges from “very”, to “not at all”, for Google and anyone else. Upfront, I am in the “not at all” camp.Facebook Home is Facebook’s latest attempt at gaining significant relevancy, ...
Let’s make a mobile OS that will rival Apple's iOS, and let’s give it away for free. Clever thinking by Google, at the time. As of early 2013, Google’s Android operating system has come to massively dominate smartphones worldwide, with Samsung taking the lion’s share of this dominance. The irony is almost palpable.Google has done a magnificent job. Android 4.2.2 is almost every bit as good as anything else on the market (read: iOS, Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, and the ...
Business success may well be defined by key indicators such as rising profits for 10 years, growing turnover over the same time period, market share that continues to climb and general acclaim for the products and services your business produces.Apple, by the above definition, is clearly a business success story, and then some. The Cupertino-based giant's share price has gone from US$119 in 2008 to US$458 in early 2013. More critically, it has grown by 249% in five years ...
In the heady days of the early 1990s two young Stanford PhD students David Filo and Jerry Yang Yahoo founded Yahoo! as a hierarchical directory of other websites. From the insane startup days through the massive growth and rise of the internet during the early 2000s, Yahoo could do no wrong, despite the internet bubble crash of 2000. In 2002 Yahoo even tried to buy Google for US$3-billion.Yahoo! then tried to start its own search engine and proceed to buy ...
If you a new internet user, you are likely to be young, black, and earn under R1 500 (US$170) a month. Overall 66% of the 34% of South African adults connected to the internet speak an African language at home.These were some of the findings of a comprehensive and nationally representative study into the use of the internet in South Africa, from the South Africa Network Society Survey in collaboration with Research ICT Africa.The report, written by Indra ...
Apple is not about the hardware, it's also not about the software, it's all about perception of leadership and quality. No other company in recent history has created quite the perception of leadership that Apple has managed to establish and maintain. Steve Jobs is gone, his legacy however lives on, and Tim Cook and his team are making changes that will ultimately solidify Apple as the tech leader in today's connected world.At the recent launch held in San Jose, California ...
Apple has spoken, the dust has barely settled, and the new iPhone 5 is almost upon us. Predictably the world’s press and the blogging community was completely abuzz with the launch event. Sentiment ranged from delirium that the new iPhone was finally here, to underwhelmed disappointment that the new iPhone did not innovate or include the magic carpet Sinbad App in the Maps function, so you could “flyover” all that freshly launched traffic information.To be upfront here, I don’t believe ...
Apple versus Samsung has been great news for the legal and tech journalist fraternity. The lawyers have been churning out billable hours, and the journalists have been churning out tons and tons of reports, special reports, and analysis. Great fun if you can keep up. What got me thinking is what all this hype and reportage has got to do with me and my shiny gadgets. The answer luckily is very little.The media circus that has ensued over the whole ...
It looks like Nokia isn't about to stop hemorrhaging any time soon. The release of its latest quarterly report highlights just how bad things are, for the once mighty mobile company.The bright point for investors is that this bad news was anticipated, and mostly factored into the share price. Overall net sales fell by 19% year on year but were a smidgen higher than the traditionally bad first quarter, up three percent.The overall loss was close to US$1-billion ...
The gloves are off as Microsoft, for the first time, commits to a range of computers that bears its own name.In a very Apple-like way Microsoft held a super-secret event in Los Angeles which got the Tech world speculating and claiming all sorts of inside info. Many were close, predicting a Microsoft tablet. The reality was far bigger than the hype suggested.Microsoft launched a well-executed and extremely innovative range of tablets appropriately called Surface. The Microsoft Surface tablet ...
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