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Apple launched its Macintosh personal computer in 1984 with its much published TV campaign "Why 1984 will not be like 1984". The campaign used an unnamed heroine to represent the coming of the Macintosh as a means of saving humanity from conformity. The slogan played to ones emotions of standing up against ‘Big Brother’, IBM at the time, by buying a Mac. More importantly it served to announce the fact that after the arrival of the Apple Macintosh that 1984 ...
The web will die says George Colony, the rather insightful boss of Forrester Research -- and here is why.He says that fundamentally the web is a waste and inefficient. It fails to take advantage of the incredible processing power and storage abilities of the powerful gadgets and computers we use. It makes no sense to leave these out of the equation. Rather the best use of the technology at our disposal today is to use both the internet and the ...
Earlier this year I reported that Chrome was destined to become the default web browser for Ubuntu. At that time, Chrome still had a fair way to catch up to Firefox's userbase. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Explorer was holding out strong as the preferred browser on the internet. These stats are changing fast.This month, StatCounter suggests that Chrome has finally stolen second place from Firefox if viewed on a global scale. Chrome usage has been growing steadily throughout the year, ...
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention and indeed that could perfectly describe Africa where it comes to innovation, particularly on mobile.Utility vs Coolness In a great talk at TEDxVienna Alexander Oswald, Head of Marketing at Nokia, tells the story of how he and his family visited Kenya and were immensely shocked at just how much people in Kenya were able to accomplish via mobile phones.From sending and receiving money, to banking and paying for utilities & ...
Queen of the Net, Mary Meeker, presented her "Internet Trends" for the year at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011 in San Francisco earlier this month. Meeker's vision has not changed radically from last year, with an increased emphasis on how much of the tech market is now driven by users outside of the United States. In this article, I'd like to take a look at some of her key points and investigate what they mean for emerging markets, especially within ...
In the first part of this article I discussed -- picking up from talks I gave at PopTech and Nokia World 2011 -- "The Idea of Africa" and how Western abstractions of the continent are often mired in the past, and, with examples, how Africa was turning the world upside down because disruptive ideas happen at the edge.Now, I want to look at the Two Big Trends.Trend #1: Adoption by Africans as consumers is increasing Trend #2: Technology costs are decreasingAt ...
We're in the age of the petabyte, exabyte and zettabyte. We're being overwhelmed with information, and we don't know what to do about it.There has been a data explosion in the internet age, brought about by the digital era where entry barriers have been lowered, allowing the masses to publish, to tweet, to build open source applications. The age of automation has also resulted in information generated by computers on an automated basis.Former Google CEO Eric Shmidt says that ...
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