Conferences

• Tech-Ed kicks off with Azure, Office 365, Windows 8

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  By Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.
  10.18.11 | 3 Comments
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  Microsoft is going through an exciting phase of innovation, says Microsoft corporate vice-president for Visual Studio, Jason Zander. The company's aim, he claims, is to build connected devices focusing on elastic resources, composable services and to take away the worry from the cloud by making it more secure through carefully controlled access.Zander addressed an audience of more than 3 000 people at the opening keynote of this year's Tech-Ed conference in Durban South Africa.Tech-Ed Africa is billed ...

• Technology, a language not an industry: Discovery Invest Leadership Summit

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  By Garreth Bloor: Staff reporter
  09.22.11 | 1 Comment
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  "We have technology that not even the wildest science fiction writers could have believed," said Adrian Gore, opening the Discovery Invest Leadership in South Africa yesterday.Al Gore's comment that the iPhone version is due for release next month generated headlines across the web, but the context of the summit contained some far bigger themes: notably the rise of technology and emerging markets.The environmental crusader and former US Vice-President (who is also on the board of Apple), joined economist Nouriel ...

• TEDx Soweto: ‘Delve deep into the conversation about our future’

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  By Staff Reporter
  09.20.11 | No Comments
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  TED started out as a group of bright minds meeting up every year in Monterey, California 25 years ago. The principle behind it was simple: "Ideas Worth Spreading". These days it’s an international phenomenon with conferences bearing the famous TED logo taking place all over the world. These conferences include the TED Global and TED X streams.The TEDx stream, while licensed by TED is independently organised.Soweto, Johannesburg will be hosting its second TEDx conference at the end of September. ...

• The holy grail of marketing — Tapping into the social matrix [WordCamp]

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  09.16.11 | 4 Comments
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  "Community means building a grid. Attracting, converting and retaining loyalty. Community marketing means building an active social matrix which ultimately allows the community to work for you." These were the words of Fred Roed, one of the many speakers at Wordcamp Camp Town 2011.WordCamp is an informal gathering of WordPress bloggers, developers, programmers, designers, podcasters, coders and tech-heads.We investigated both tracks of the conference, the publisher track which focused on blogging, content creation as well as light SEO ...

• How a flexible and scalable website is key to prolonged success [WordCamp]

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  By Ryan Gordon
  09.16.11 | 5 Comments
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  The combination of scalability and flexibility is becoming more and more prevalent, encouraging a single web presence that is not only ubiquitous but adaptable to almost any platform available. This and similar notions were common in most speaker presentations at this year's WordCamp held in Cape Town, South Africa. A resounding concept brought to light by Jason Bagley, was introduced to the crowd in the form of some insightful rendering of CSS to provide websites with a flexible architecture. The ...

• Experience WordCamp Cape Town 2011

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  09.13.11 | 3 Comments
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  Some 20 renowned speakers will take to the stage when WordCamp Cape Town 2011 kicks off on the 15th of September.WordCamps are community-organised conferences, where discussions take place surrounding the blogging platform, WordPress. This will be Cape Town's second WordCamp to date.The conference is popular for allowing users to share ideas, learn about the challenges associated with Wordpress and participate in its development. WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg organised the first WordCamp in San Francisco in 2006. He was also ...

• Tech4Africa to reward innovation

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  By Staff Reporter
  08.31.11 | 1 Comment
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  Technological innovation will play an important role in solving a number of the problems which are unique to Africa as a continent. In recognition of this, Tech4Africa – which bills itself as the continent's "only web and emerging technology conference" -- has launched the inaugural Tech4Africa Innovation Award.The award, which is open to individuals and companies, is designed to "recognise homegrown innovation and further inspire the industry to develop global solutions to uniquely African challenges"."The Tech4Africa Innovation Award is ...

• Social, mobile and the cloud are the future of collaboration

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  By Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.
  08.24.11 | 2 Comments
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  Companies are looking for easier and more cost-effective ways to collaborate within their organisations. The death of Google Wave left room for more innovative ways of collaborating. The future of collaboration seems to lie in the convergence of mobile, social and the cloud."By 2014, all smartphones will transparently synchronise local data with at least one cloud service. By 2014, most organisations will deliver mobile applications to workers through private application stores", says vice president of Gartner Research Monica ...

• Water and flow: The focus of TEDx Cape Town

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  By Al Mackay
  04.18.11 | 3 Comments
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  South Africa may have a digital divide, but more importantly, it has a cognitive divide. Too many of us grow up in households where great ideas are not discussed and we never really learn to think deeply about the world. These were the sobering words of Patrick Kayton, co-founder of Cognician, at TEDxCape Town on Saturday 16 April.Thinking is hard work, and it requires time, context and concepts. The more quality concepts we are exposed to and engage with, the ...

• The IFA global press conference 2011

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  By Ryan Gordon
  04.16.11 | No Comments
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  The IFA Global Press Conference takes place this weekend in Alicante, Spain. The conference is a showcase of some of the top electronic brands from around the world and the forthcoming innovations they intend to launch. Set in tranquil surroundings, brand leaders have been brought under one roof to present flagship technology to the press -- which includes delegates from all around the world. The event began with introductions by IFA’s Executive Director, Jens Heithecker outlining IFA's goal to be ...

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