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Nations wrestle with internet age
The UN digital divide summit in Geneva has made political leaders consider the internet ...

UN summit pledges net for all
Delegates at UN's digital divide summit agree on principles of web equality, ...

Cyber threats risk net's future
Developing nations are grappling with how deal with security threats as more and ...

Iran defends web control
Iranian authorities have defended the country's web censorship rules at the ...

Annan calls for web to widen
Most websites are irrelevant to the real needs of people says UN secretary general. ...

Hi-tech medi-truck heads to Africa
A monster all-terrain truck has been kitted out by a Russian group to deliver medical ...

Time for the 'real revolution'
Technology needs to be relevant, cheap and useful, argues SciDev.net's David ...

Blackberry still boss in smartphone users
Apple's iPhone is a strong No. 2 in the latest rankings of smartphone market share, ...

Marquette, UWM receive grant for freshwater research center
The National Science Foundation has awarded $675,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ...

Arca BioPharma reports 'going concern' opinion
Colorado's Arca BioPharma Inc. -- which is struggling to get its experimental heart-failure ...

Entorian Tech voluntarily delisting
Semiconductor maker Entorian Technologies Inc. has submitted to voluntarily delist ...

Cary greenway section closing due to roadwork
The town of Cary said Thursday that it plans to temporarily close a section of the ...

10% of iPhone apps are iPad ready, so far
As Apple Inc. gets ready to stock shelves with its iPad tablet device, software developers ...

Lenovo plans smartphone, smart pad
Following the repurchase of its cell phone division last year, Lenovo is planning ...

Rob Glaser Defines the Superphone and Predicts the Mobile Future
Future media will be consumed on the go, said Rob Glaser, former CEO of RealNetworks, ...

Facebook Search Queries Jump 10% in February
Facebook redesigned at the beginning of February, moving its search box from the ...

Google, Facebook Sued Over Mobile Sign-up Patent
A little-known white-label mobile social network company is suing Google and Facebook ...

Former FCC Chair Lays Out the Limits on the Agency’s Authority
Big consumer issues such as the availability of internet apps on mobile devices and ...

CA Continues Cloud-focused Buying Spree, Acquires Nimsoft
CA today announced that it is acquiring privately held Nimsoft, which makes performance ...

Venture Capital’s Data Side Story
From new data stores to large-scale databases to cloud-based storage services, it ...

Why Apple Should Buy Adobe
The rumors of Adobe being bought by Apple come up every so often. Apple could easily ...

Cleantech Collective Open for Business
File this one under self-serving if you like, but I feel a little like a proud new ...

Can Social Media Save Red Herring?
Red Herring, the tech industry’s essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital ...

How to Be a Successful Blogger: The Scrupski Rules
Susan Scrupski, one of the brightest (and nicest) people Ive met in my Enterprise ...

Living the Social Media Values at SAP
Its a cold day in hell pretty rare when a large company invites bloggers to sit ...

PR and Social Media: Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
Jimmy Breslin’s famous query about the hapless 1962 New York Mets seems apropos of ...

Deborah Weil and the Art of the Fake
The rapid ascension of social media as a force in marketing and public relations ...

Social Media Bites Whole Foods CEO
Now we know why Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has starting updating his blog again ...

No More Microsoft Dick, No More Identity 2.0
Yesterday was my last day at Microsoft. You can read more at Dick Hardt dot org. ...

Identity, Privacy and Facebook
Any conversation about identity leads to a conversation about privacy. Identity ...

Who makes more money than me?
Doing my usual Facebook maintenance tonight and I see another intriguing advertisement. ...

I want my stimulus: but is it Jeff or Kevin?
While getting my nightly dose of Facebook, I came across the following two ads on ...

Privacy Issue or Feature: Unpleasant vs Pleasant Surprise
Being in the identity space, and having a product that manages peoples identity, ...

Dick Hardt joins Microsoft
No joke. Yes, I am joining Microsoft. For those with questions, I hope to have answered ...

Canada vs US: Identity and Voting
Like many other Canadians, I have been entertained by the reality television series: ...

Resurrecting the Blog and moving to overseas
Whoa, my blog is still alive! Even after I havent fed it in such a long time. Thats ...

Why not treat yourself like an RPG Character?
If you dont play video games that much, RPG stands for Role Playing Game. RPG games ...

Creating the Culture. My Vision for this Space
I initially started this blog as a personal journal, which then evolved with my resolution ...

Life Lessons from an "Old Guy"
I found out about this blog post from readsaid. Old guy thinking is a brilliant post, ...

Great Article on Perspectives
I read a deep and insightful post today from Life 2.0 called Perspectives on Psychotherapy, ...

Interrupt your thoughts
Let me just tell you one thing first. This is easier said than done. There is a great ...

Been quiet in this space lately
The key to personal development, or any sort of life skill for that matter, is consistency ...

query.dropSlideMenu.js
dropSlideMenu is my attempt at building a simple (single-level support only), yet ...

Favourite South African logos: Part 3
This post is the third installment in a series, featuring my favourite South African ...

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Defending IE6
Lately I've noticed an increasing trend among web designers/developers who are proudly ...

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: a collection
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, the anime music video produced by Daft Punk and ...

Favourite South African logos: Part 2
This post continues where Part 1 left off, a little later than I was planning, but ...

Favourite South African logos: Part 1
This post has been a while coming. I was initially planning to feature about 10 of ...

Super-slim X360 from MSI
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How to Destroy a Nikon D90 (and Paint it Magenta)
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Pentax Unveils a 40-megapixel Medium-Format Camera
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HTML5 and Flash in a Video Cage Match
www.streaminglearningcente r....t-depends-.html"Since the comparative efficiency ...

Digital Copy Codes & Downloads Expire Too Soon
Have you ever seen that screen before? If so, you'll share my frustration. ...

HP Slate Shows Off Its Ability To Run Flash
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The Logitech Squeezebox Duet: A Powerful But Quirky Network Audio Player
Product Category: Wireless streaming audio playerManufacturer: LogitechWhere ...

Favourite Websites
One of the publications recently asked me for my five favourite websites. This is ...

One Reason Why Companies Fail
I was thinking about this the other day, as I was chatting to a friend about my experiences ...

Life in 5-year Chunks
Over the recent Holi holidays, as I sat thinking about life past, present and future, ...

Revival of Friends of BJP
I was part of a small team from Friends of BJP that was invited to attend the BJP ...

Blog Past: Ideas for India
From a 2-part series I wrote a year ago with Atanu Dey (Part 1 and Part 2): India’s ...

Weekend Reading
This weeks links: 5 Innovative Online Business Models: Woot,Groupon, Hotwire, Blippy, ...

School Memories - 4
Xaverian: I used to love writing for the school magazine. In the early years, I ...

Microsoft Gives MSN Home Page a Major Overhaul
Microsoft has been previewing a radical redesign of its MSN home page since last ...

NoSQL Supporters Challenge Relational Databases
Multiple open source projects based on a new approach to databases were discussed ...

AMD Planning Netbook Chip for 2011
After a long time on the sidelines, Intel rival AMD is getting into the netbook game ...

Google Ready to Make China Decision
CEO Eric Schmidt said the search giant is continuing discussions with the Chinese ...

Lost Drive Puts National Guard Data at Risk
Tens of thousands of Arkansas National Guard soldiers became the latest victims of ...

Tech Stocks Rally Ten Years After Topping Out
Ten years after the dot-com bubble burst, the Nasdaq still has a long way to go. ...

Mariposa Bot Shipped With Vodafone Smartphone
Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa and Lineage password stealing malware ...

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Video: Most people would rather vote online
More than three in four (77%) of the public would vote via the internet in the general ...

Google Reader Play: iPad-Friendly News Reader
Google has added an iPad-friendly version of its RSS aggregator, called Google Reader ...

Bing Gains Again -- Should Google Worry?
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Memo to Google's Android team: Tie your shoelaces, kids
With the Nexus One a yawner and the Android platform fragmenting more every day, ...

Punters: we want our internet TV
Consumers really do want to access internet video on their tellies, market watcher ...

MEPs reject Acta online anti-piracy deal
Negotiators who are thrashing out a secret international anti-counterfeiting agreement ...

US city schools locked down after online threat (AFP)
AFP - A vague threat apparently posted by an Australian on two social networking ...

Huge 'botnet' amputated, but criminals reconnect (AP)
AP - The sudden takedown of an Internet provider helping spread a promiscuous piece ...

MySpace upping ante in online social games (AFP)
AFP - MySpace on Wednesday began courting videogame developers as it moved to capitalize ...

Bing gains US search market share for ninth straight month (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing slightly increased its share of ...

Bing Gains Again -- Should Google Worry? (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's Bing search engine may still be a bit player in the lucrative ...

Summary Box: OnLive game streaming to come in June (AP)
AP - THE SERVICE: OnLive will let you "stream" popular high-end games over the Internet, ...

Summary Box: Global Net agency reconsiders `.xxx' (AP)
AP - THE PROPOSAL: A ".xxx" Internet suffix where porn sites can voluntarily set ...

Turning Security & Privacy into a competitive advantage
Many Chief Security Officers supporting Financial Services today are delivering empirical ...

Venture Capital Investments in NYC Skyrockets 40%
When startups think of VC investments they’re first reaction is not typically “New ...

A Startup Kinda Guy – Craig Mundie
More than a few of my emerging ISV company are asking me – what will Microsoft be ...

From startup to super star, it pays to be NICE –
I had a unique opportunity to speak at Omni Resort & Hotel in Orlando FL, for NICE’s ...

Microsoft Windows CardSpace enabling ePayments
Windows CardSpace enables users to provide their digital identities in a familiar, ...

How does a startup become an industry success?
Easy - demonstrate enterprise capability solving real business problems, integrate ...

A to Z of SA
In December last year I was invited by Apple to attend the launch of a new campaign ...

My presentation at the Addynamo Blogging Workshop
If you missed it, heres my presentation from the Addynamo Blogging Workshop that ...

Audi MVP Day
The legendary Chris Rawlinson was kind enough to invite me to the second Audi MVP ...

Ive made it to the finals
I love a good competition. Nothing like the thrill of the chase to drive one nuts. ...

ad:tech, Adgator and me its the perfect fit
Jeremy Schoemaker who runs the blog Shoemoney is offering one person an all-expenses ...

Twitter introduces lists and becomes a lot more useful
Twitter have today started rolling out a Beta feature to select users called Lists. ...

England, thanks for ruining cricket for my son
First let me state that Luke, my 5 year-old, is a cricket fanatic. If were not watching ...

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Pink, Daniel H. Pink takes ...

The War of Art
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Pressfield, ...

Applying End-to-End Design Principles in Social Networks
Image via Wikipedia Andy Lippman, at MITs Media Lab, offers provocative examples ...

Choosing to draw your own maps: a review of Seth Godin’s Linchpin
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, Godin, Seth Seth Godin continues his quest to become ...

Does the CIO have a role in successful social media adoption?
Like everyone else whos awake, my long-time friend and colleague Keri Pearlson and ...

Hans Rosling at TED India: making time visible
Im turning into a bit of a Hans Rosling groupie, having blogged about several of ...

Patti Anklam on The Year of Personal Net Work
Patti Anklam and I have reconnected after first meeting several years ago. We navigate ...

T-Mo is down in parts of Seattle
Its not just you. Been about an hour two hours three hours now& right when I was ...

Your smartphone: future air-quality data point
You know the good feeling you get when you think about how your computer is running ...

Aw, iPhone app fridge magnets
Take a break from reading our hard-hitting news coverage and take a look at these ...

Two new gestures coming to iPhone OS: long press and three finger tap
Tired of all that boring ol two finger pinching-and-zooming and swiping on the ...

Surprise! HTC Legend pre-orders delivered a bit early
Handset manufacturers are usually pretty good about holding their tongue about specific ...

Bravo to Epic Games for porting Unreal Engine 3 to the iPhone
Don't get mad at meI wanted to go to GDC, but The Man said no. So now we're relying ...

Casio’s ultra-tough G’zOne Brigade going on sale tomorrow?
WAAAAY back in November, Casio and Verizon showed off the GzOne Brigade, an ultra-durable ...

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Buy two books direct from O'Reilly and get the third free by using code OPC1 in ...

New! O'Reilly Photography Learning Center
The O'Reilly Photography Learning Center is an evolving resource of tips, tricks, ...

O'Reilly Authors Get Jolted
O'Reilly authors won three of four Jolt Product Excellence Awards. The winners are: ...

The Largest MySQL Gathering on Earth
With over 110 sessions and speakers, the MySQL Users Conference is chock full of ...

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Need I.T. Career Advice? Ask Trish.
In her new "Dear Trish" column, O'Reilly Learning Guidance Counselor Trish Gray ...

Adobe smacks back Apple over iPad, again
Theres a ton of chatter on Techmeme today regarding iPad and Flash ...

The Revolution at Work (the industry reacts to Salesforces moves)
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, has been using the bully pulpit ...

Check in on this: can location-based services get any hotter?
If youve been reading Techcrunch or Techmeme lately you know just ...

Augment your SXSW reality (News: first indoor AR app released)
No, no, Im not talking about going to the Diggnation party and ...

Do we need a new tech literacy? (Behind the big data services like Twitter, Facebook ...
The technology that lies underneath the services we use every day ...

The new worldwide startup
Ive been traveling around the world studying how startups get formed. ...

Why Twitter is worth $1bn
I tend to always be justifying valuations of companies way ahead of the market. ...

SaaS meets Virtual Goods
Yola is known as a Software-as-a-Service business which basically means that ...

Social Media (re)evolution!
I found this video on my good friendRyan Spoons blog. Definitely needed to share ...

ChessCube raises $1.25m VC funding
Its great to see other young startups raising money in this tough economic environment. ...

Cover Story : Entrepreneur Magazine July 2009
Im honoured to be this months cover story in Entrepreneur Magazine (SA). Many ...

Endeavor Keynote: Reid Hoffman
Im at the Endeavor conference in Miami and todays keynote speaker is Reid Hoffman ...

Yahoo to shut down Geocities
The world surely has changed since the heydays of the late 90s. Its been a little ...

Come Say Hi To The Basement.org Guy At SXSW
First off, my apologies for the lack of postings on Basement.org. I am still alive ...

The iPad & The Side Streets
Anyone that follows this blog knows that I'm an unrelenting advocate of building ...

The Essential First Step To Blowing Minds
"Less is more." It's a powerful phrase. It's one of those rare quotes ...

The Admiral's Club & The Junkyard: What Would We Pay For In Today's Web?
When new concepts or constructs are introduced to us, we tend to quickly cement our ...

The Rise & Fall of The Nintendo Wii
At Arc90, one of our meeting rooms is proudly called the Wii Room. It’s an informal ...

Basement.org Turns 5 Today
Five years ago today, I launched this blog, www.basement.org. I actually can’t believe ...

Introducing: Arc90
Nearly five years ago, a sort of resurgent movement was starting to take hold on ...

'Microring' wireless devices could nix wires in homes, offices
Purdue University researchers have developed a system capable of converting ultra ...

'Skinput' turns the body into an input surface
Researchers have created a system that allows users to use their own hands and arms ...

5 ways to critically evaluate a trend or forecast
There is no cast-iron system for trend evaluation, but there is a set of criteria ...

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An artificial hairy surface that refuses to get wet
For the first time, a water-repelling surface has been developed that is almost perfectly ...

'Seeing sound': 5 remarkable examples of cymatics and beyond
The application of cymatics is wide-reaching and includes artists and DIY experimenters ...

Researchers create hands-free alternative to texting while driving
Researchers at Clemson University's Human Centered Computing Lab have developed a ...

A Tribute to Apple Design
Apple is a company we all admire. Gone are the days where the Apple brand used to ...

When the iPhone becomes an interactive storytelling tool
The Mobile Art Lab in Japan have come up with a concept that combine interactive ...

An inspiring speech by Steve Jobs
This speech by Steve Jobs the man behind Apple at a Stanford graduation ceremony ...

The History of Google
This video not only illustrates Googles history but does a great job of reminding ...

Discovery Vitality
As the strategic online and social media consultant for Discovery Vitality, Cosmedia ...

It’s time for the Google Wave
We like Google Wave. This brilliant video adds a fun side to what is arguably one ...

SportsTeen
Cosmedia worked together with Ndalo Media to unveil South Africa’s first sports and ...

Awesomeness at the GeekRetreat
This past weekend I participated in the second annual South African Geek Retreat. ...

Major players in the Canadian record industry face a $6 Billion copyright infringement ...
After years of claiming outrageous amounts of money from people who have downloaded ...

The Value Proposition of Newspapers in an Attention Scarce Market
Across consumer markets, attention is becoming the scarcest and so most strategically ...

Fort Knox: a Stunning Example of South African Artistic Talent
I couldnt resist sharing this music video for one of my favourite South African ...

Measuring Influence on Twitter
Marketing on Twitter is largely about influence, unless you simply want to use it ...

3 Simple Tips to Help Busy People Get Into Social Media
Fast Company recently published an article called The 10 Commandments of Social Media, ...

Opting Out of Telemarketing
Recently Ive been getting almost daily calls from telemarketers offering me mainly ...

No iPhone in SA on 22 Aug?
Dosent look like SA is being added to the mix on 22 Aug. Apparently 20 or so countries ...

iPhone in SA?
Vodacom have opened bookings for the iPhone 3G for the South African market Seems ...

iPhone coming to SA Official
Its official the iPhone is coming to SA! Vodafone have signed an exclusive agreement ...

One lucky SA person will get to drive the Renault F1 Car
The company i work for has put together an awesome new reality series offering one ...

iPhone and Vodacom?
Yup its been ages since I did a blog post, but id rather blog when I want to say ...

First working iPhone in South Africa!
Yup you guessed it unless im wrong, this is the first working iPhone in SA! Im ...

Iphone First impressions
Yup thats right- I managed to get my grubby mits on an iPhone from the 5th ave Apple ...

Apple iPhone: An artists new best friend
Not only has the Apple iPhone revolutionized the way we work and communicate on the ...

How a simple geek gathering could make the South African Internet better
Let me start off by saying that the inaugural Geek Retreat that took place this past ...

Western Spaghetti
I just love this clever video created by Adam Pesapane, a digital artist in New York ...

SA will experience strong Internet growth over the next 5 years says goldstuck
Earlier today, Internet researcher and commentator, Arthur Goldstuck, presented ...

The influence of mobile phone technology on media & politics in South Africa
A few weeks ago, myself, Matt Buckland (24.com) and William Bird (Media Monitoring ...

SABCnews.com relaunches but with no breaking news
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) recently made a grandiose announcement ...

Lara Croft flys in from a deep, dark jungle just to meet me!
Ok, might as well come clean!!! Alison Carroll, AKA Lara Croft, was recently in ...