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Microsoft Targets South African Piracy
When it comes to piracy, Africa is an especially tricky market. Most companies will state that markets in Africa are simply ‘too small’ to worry about, although it could be argued that if people paid...
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Inside Google's New South African Office
The staff of Google South Africa recently posted some photos of their new offices, nicknamed the Rubik’s Cube. Check out the photos below… The South African team is still relatively small, but our...
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Feedalizr Review: Lifestreaming on the Desktop
Feedalizer is an Adobe Air desktop lifestreaming application built by MIH Swat in South Africa. It’s interesting because of the way it currently integrates with Twitter but it also features support for...
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Another Linux distro comes out of South Africa
Kongoni, a Slackware based distro from South Africa announced their first stable release yesterday. Kongoni is the Shona word for the Gnu (also known as a Wildebeest, the animal after which Richard...
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South African ATMs Now Practice Self-Defense
In many African countries, ATMs are a constant target for criminals. In South Africa, the problem has recently esclated as criminals use explosives to blow up the machines and steal the cash. Nearly...
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South Africa’s Presidential Hotline is Finally Going Live
Jacob Zuma’s campaign promised to make the South African government and presidency more accessible to the public. One of his many proposals was a presidential hotline that would allow citizens to call...
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Innovation in a black tie
SouthbySouthwest “SXSW” (www.sxsw.com), TED (www.ted.com) and Africa Gathering (www.africagathering.org) What do these events all have in common? I mean other than they are major social events in the...
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Apps4Africa Reboot!
Well, it wasn’t a graceful relaunch. Our site went down, a web app we use called JotNote suffered at DDOS attack, and there were other complications, but after 24 hours of debugging and troubleshooting...
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Tech4Africa Is This Month!
I’m really excited to be one of the keynote speakers at Tech4Africa this year in South Africa. I’ll be there discussing Apps4Africa among other things. If you’re interested in going but are...
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Nic Haralambous on Finding Funding
Nicholas Haralambous was the CEO and co-founder of Motribe before the company was successfully acquired by Africa’s largest social network, Mxit in August, 2012. In 2009 he featured on GQ’s list of Top...
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