I just watched the movie Jobs, and before you Apple fanatics lose your mind, this is not a review, go watch it yourself. What I have is some lessons from Apple’s early days for entrepreneurs, the Steve Jobs way.If the movie is an accurate representation of the birthing of Apple Inc., then Steve Jobs robbed Steve Wozniak out of a company and many people more. If the movie is an accurate representation of the early days at Apple, it takes ...

The Rubik’s Cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Back in the day old man Ernő worked at the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest and it is widely reported that the Cube was built as a teaching tool to help his students understand 3D objects. Solving the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart was the Cubes initial ...

Two phones, both flagship models and both handsets that have reached the pinnacle of design, power and display. LG and Apple have created two incredible smartphones, the fingerprint-reading iPhone 5s and the powerhouse that is the LG G2. These two phones were both launched in September and are selling exceptionally well, the iPhone 5s more so. There is no better (or more expensive) Android or iOS device currently on the market, so choosing between one of can be tricky. When ...

Last week, the world woke up to the news that former president Nelson Mandela had died. The news spread across the web and effectively transformed it. On social media there were around 10-million posts and tributes from all over the web, showing just how deeply the world felt the loss.With help of the folks at Vertabox, a Twitter mapping platform, we've put together some heat maps of the social conversation around the former statesman. What's cool about the maps from ...

Thousands of ordinary people and global dignitaries will today gather at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg for the official memorial service of Nelson Mandela. Members of the public were able to get seats on a first come first served basis and while the service will be screened in a number of locations, it simply won't be possible for some people to get to any of those places.The SABC is however live-streaming the entire service as well as events around ...

Everyone in tech is obsessed with the next ten years. What will the web and technologies bring us? Are we finally going to have the flying cars that science fiction has long promised us?The last ten years in technology has brought us some amazing innovations such as 3D printing, the rise of the makers and smart devices. We are seeing a consistent move toward the sharing economy and towards collaboration.Who will solve the problems of the next decade? Who ...

Twerking, checkins at Disneyland and um, piercings. That's pretty much what happened on Facebook this year, according to the social media company.Yes, Facebook has released the 2013 edition of its annual year in review report, which showcases the global trends it gleans from crunching the data generated by posts from its millions of users. It's divided the review into three areas -- the most checked in places globally, the most common life events and the most talked about topics ...

In 2013, big companies in the cloud space faced downtime challenges, companies in the social media space were valued at costs seemingly much higher than they’re worth, and a superpower’s secrets were revealed to the world.Four big events or trends in the IT space this year have had great significance for the industry. In each case, the trends bear thinking about, because how we respond to them now will shape the future of the way we interact, work and play ...

Apple’s prolonged update to its iLife and iWork suites finally dropped earlier this year, to the ecstatic cries of long-term Apple enthusiasts (read: survivors) who have made use of the outdated software packages for years since the last major updates in iWork ’09 and iLife ’11.In many cases, for Apple, it was something of a new moonshot. There was a new mission, a new frontier: a cloud-based workflow. In charge of this operation was a brand new crew and commander, ...

Jonathan was recently part of a team that traveled around South Africa actively searching for potential investments as they recruited entrepreneurs to the Canadian government’s Startup Visa Program, a scheme to assist qualified entrepreneurs interested in relocating to Canada. Here's his perspective on what they found.In the next five years, South Africa is going to produce successful breakout companies whose exciting stories will be told and re-told as inspiring startup legends. Among them will be some of the 50+ smart, ...