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There is a perception among entrepreneurs that a revolutionary idea is enough to secure the venture capital needed to kick-start their businesses. This is simply not true. Here are five of the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs when applying for VC funding.1. No WOW! Factor The first rule ...

Cloud computing is gaining traction globally. The practice refers to data access and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system delivering a particular service.Trends in cloud computing indicate software may cease to become the tangible product we are used ...

South Africa has a new Google boss.Stafford Masie, the former head of Novell South Africa and a relative unknown outside IT circles, has been appointed the new South Africa Google head, reports ITWeb and Mail & Guardian Online.It's taken them a while to find the person. The job has been ...

The fundamental art of linking is something online media could learn from the blogosphere....Without linking there wouldn’t be an internet.It’s the web of links that leads a user from website-to-website that essentially creates the thing we know as the world wide web. Many commercial online media publishers hate linking ...

Here’s a prediction: Expect online advertising to increasingly resemble television commercials. Soon there won’t be too much difference between an advert you see on your TV and an advert you see on a website you are visiting. They may even be one and the same thing.As technology and bandwidth on ...

Nothing gets a dedicated techie hotter under the collar than a discussion about Microsoft and its software monopoly. Another subject that will get them talking is the subject of open source software.Open source is in many ways the antithesis of what Microsoft and many software companies have been pursuing over ...

Something pretty revolutionary is going down in a dusty patch of Limpopo province. It involves billionaire and Africa’s first Astronaut Mark Shuttleworth, a multi-national technology company and the government.Shuttleworth is so passionate about it, he says it could rocket South Africa into the future: “We are on the cusp of ...

net savvyThe future of online advertisingHere’s a prediction: Expect online advertising to increasingly resemble television commercials. Soon there won’t be too much difference between an advert you see on your TV and an advert you see on a website you are visiting. They may even be one and the ...