Archive for the ‘mobile service providers’ Category

South Africa: Telecoms ‘Gold Rush’ Leaves Nothing for Masses – ICASA

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

This press release was widely distributed online and appeared on Allafrica.com amongst others, from where I reproduce it, with full credits intact. This of course ties in with my previous posts regarding the fragile socio-political dynamics of the South African internet/web 2.0/technology sector and the many challenges faced by all ...

Why Social Media Will Fail in South Africa

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I stumbled on a very interesting post which is an elaboration on Tuesday's theme, entitled The Internet's Hierarchy Of Needs. The author also superimposes Maslow's Hierarchy of Basic Needs on the internet. As we can see, at the very base of the pyramid is 1. Existence needs: The most basic ...

Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, WordPress, Africa

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I have found a very good tool in the form of a WordPress plugin called WordBook, what it does is to integrate with your self-hosted wordpress.org blog on your own domain and then also your Facebook profile and mini-feed. This updates all your WordPress blog posts to your Facebook profile ...

MTN takes on Vodacom ISP in South Africa

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

www.balancingact-africa.com is a very valuable resource for anyone in the mobile and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) fields in Africa, and this article deals with the mobile service providers in the South African market specifically. Especially for young tech startup companies who is dependent on reliable infrastructure to base ...