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Pigspotter is dead. Long live pigspotting!
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Opera co-founder on the future of mobile, computing
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Lady Gaga mobilises her social network for political change
Lady Gaga is using YouTube and her huge following on Twitter and Facebook to mobilise a groundswell of support for the repeal of the…
SA poised for massive adoption of mobile web
South Africa is poised to see runaway mobile web expansion, according to Dr K.F Lai, CEO of mobile media company, BuzzCity. Speaking at the…
Now you can create a social network using your phone
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Notorious SA tweeter receives huge support
The best thing that ever happened to @pigspotter was the news that he was being searched for by members of the Johannesburg Metro Police…
Innovative social media campaign arrives from the future
A bank statement from the year 2050 arrived at the office the other day. I was happy to see I received R300 000 back…
Major SA news site struggles with relaunch
It should have been a moment of triumph for Independent Online (IOL), the digital branch of the Independent Newspapers group, with a glossy media…
Google to host G-South Africa for developers, entrepreneurs
Some of Google’s best engineers, product managers, and business leaders will be speaking about Google’s open web and mobile technologies in Cape Town on…
Will SA’s unbanked masses embrace M-Pesa?
On paper, the argument for embracing M-Pesa, a mobile-phone based money transfer service, is a compelling one. But implementation needs to be perfect if…
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