F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Is your business ‘all in’ for the cloud?
Steve Ballmer’s quote — “for the cloud, we’re all in“; spoken in March last year, is rapidly becoming IT folklore. For most industry watchers…
The ‘Chinese Room’ and why computers can’t figure out sarcasm
Econsultancy.com, which recently launched its Twitter for Business Guide, suggests that, contrary to popular belief, most of the sentiment posted about brands on Twitter…
What does the Shionogi incident teach us about Virtualisation?
There is a story that has been doing the rounds in the mainstream media of late that is really beginning to annoy me. The…
Who the bleep are you?:The pros and cons of online anonymity
Anonymous has given anonymity a bad name. Pseudonyms, aliases, nom de plumes, all have lubricated social communication for centuries. Famously, several female authors wrote…