Don’t Get Speared

Sep 7, 2015 |

Human beings are flawed. This is part of our charm. It is at the core of who each of us is. Unfortunately, no-one is perfect. And our creations often have flaws. It is impossible to create universal perfection. For everything we create, there are those who find ways around them. Our intentions aren’t always pure because, when we create, we often look to satisfy our own specific needs which aren’t always necessarily the collective’s need. While, in the early years, we fluctuated between panic and apathy when it comes to privacy and security, the digital and social technology overload as...

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Microsoft Mobile’s Affordability Strategy

Jul 22, 2015 |

The Transition Following the purchase of Nokia’s Devices and Services division for US$7.3million and rebranding it Microsoft Mobile Oy, Microsoft has continued to build on the Lumia range, which included the 800 and 1020 (with its 41 megapixel camera). Since completion of the acquisition in April last year, they have launched, in the SA market, the Lumia 930 (June 2014), the Lumia 630 (June 2014), the dual-sim Lumia 730 (October 2014) and the first Microsoft-branded Lumia 535 (January 2015). While we are still waiting for what could be considered a ‘flagship’ Microsoft-branded Lumia device,...

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The Art of Life Talks Lily Drone

Jun 20, 2015 |

This week’s episode of the Art of Life explores the world of drones, in particular the Lily Camera Drone, which is a personal drone. The uses of drones are many and will continue to grow as well as the implications and issues around matters like privacy, criminality and airspace. The Lily Camera Drone, which is in pre-order phase, won’t necessarily fall within that, at this stage, and looks quite cool. [youtube]https://youtu.be/T93zNkj8MFM[/youtube]

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How To Find News Amidst The Noise

Jun 6, 2015 |

Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr, Medium and LinkedIn’s Pulse are probably the main blogging platforms that exist today. There are many other platforms and millions of people all over the world use these to share their thoughts, persepectives, etc every day. NextWeb published a post on The 18 best blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today earlier this year and, if you do a search for blogging platforms, there are others that are not on that list. Sites as diverse as Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, The New York Times, The Guardian, Mashable, Entrepreneur, The Verge and Wired also...

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The Art of Life With Steve Slotow

Jun 5, 2015 | ,

About two and a half years ago, two guys, who often bumped into each other at tech and other press events, decided to create a web series/vlog, which they called The Art of Life. They called in two friends to shoot the web series (for free) and proceeded to slowly churn out episodes - every couple of weeks/months. One of the guys is Steve Slotow. The other is yours truly. Our trusted crew consists of Quinton and Heine. We eventually shot and posted about 14 episodes, the last of which went up over a year ago. We are back with an approach that will continue to ebb and flow in response to our...

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