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Mobile Tech Revolutionises Content Consumption With Audio And Video Apps
Publishers, artists, writers, companies and other content owners are adopting the app store model to distribute and sell their content. But until recently, content has mainly been in text format. While other media like audio and video have been embedded in digital texts for some time, the full potential of multimedia has not been felt [...]
What India Has Taught Me About Bridging The Skills Gap In SA
The dearth of ICT skills in the industry has exasperated businesses and tech academies alike. Firms are both aggressively competing for staff and over-outsourcing skills, placing significant pressure on the industry. A visit to global India-based, business-focused conference revealed an impressive degree of integration between tech companies and universities, which seems to have mitigated many [...]
How Apps Are Taking Over Computing And Content
Mobile apps are innumerable and integrated into almost all aspects of our daily lives. They have already changed computing in staggering ways, but there’s room for more innovation on a similar scale. A Short History Of App Domination It’s hard to imagine now, but in the beginning there was the candybar phone. On it, the [...]
Schools And Education Departments Should Embrace Tablets
Affordable alternatives exist to take learning to the next level and the remarkable mainstream success of mobile devices – specifically tablets – opens up immense opportunities in education. If embraced by schools, they can overcome the expense and impracticality of desktop-bound computer hardware, lessen the premium on software and significantly raise the value of technology-aided [...]
E-zines And Digital Dailies: Could Apps Save The Publishing Industry?
The most recent ABC figures have painted a picture of decline for newspapers, including a 6.7% drop in circulation figures for dailies and 4,9% for weekend papers. Although magazines are holding strong, they are becoming luxury items, able to compete because they are by nature more niched than newspapers. There are many reasons why print [...]
Growing South Africa’s Skills Quotient
South Africa’s performance in several key economic areas – and a few others that haven’t enjoyed due priority – has been moderate in the past few years, when most commentators have been expecting explosive growth. Focus area flops For a long time, one of SA’s most hyped exports, our business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, has [...]
How Do We Go From e-Business To Social And Mobile Commerce?
E-business is growing in all possible areas – network connections, consumer numbers, transaction volumes, revenues, and the range of digital content and services on offer. But as the industry continues to bloom, it is also diversifying. The addition of mobile and social platforms to traditional Web channels is making the market more accessible than ever, [...]
Top tips for raising angel investment funding as a tech start-up
Tough or not? Entrepreneurial ventures find it notoriously tough to get funding in South Africa. But is it really that hard? More and more commentators suggest that it’s a misconception, borne of several factors. Here are a few issues that almost every entrepreneur seems to encounter, with guidance to getting around it. Pick the right [...]
