Following its recent upgrade, Howzit MSN, the South African version of Microsoft’s MSN portal run by Kagiso Media, is being held up as a template for the successful localisation of the global portal.
Category archives: Tech
The geeks have the floor
The fourth annual Bookmarks Awards, the digital industries awards evening and back-slap, was a vast improvement over last year’s chaotic event (read Award-show behaving badly), when several hundred hangers-on crashed the awards evening and the MC Don Packett lost control and his cool.
Africa finally gets to tell its story – Africa.com founder Teresa Clark
Teresa Clarke recently visited South Africa as an international judge at the Bookmarks Awards. The Bookmarks, an initiative of the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA), awards local digital marketing and publishing efforts.
Human dev should top corporate agenda, says corp VP at Microsoft
The revolutions that have been sparked in the Middle East since the start of the year may have faded in the minds of many Western media consumers but it was still very much on the minds of local speakers at the MEA (Middle East and Africa) region Microsoft Advertising Imagine Istanbul 2011 conference that took place last week in Istanbul, Turkey.
Look beyond digital campaigns to long-term goals – Antti Kupila
This year Antti Kupila (@akupila), the technical director at Sid Lee in Amsterdam, was invited as an international representative on the panel judging advertising entries. He spoke to us about the standards of SA work, emerging trends in digital marketing and the lack of a global reputation in our digital sector.
Nook vs Kindle – tablet war widens
Barely weeks after Amazon’s own groundbreaking move into tablet computers, their deadliest rival, books chain Barnes & Noble, attacked on three fronts – led by a formidable tablet. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK previews the device.
Data now 14% of Vodacom income as smartphone use surge
Vodacom has 4.1-million smartphones in use in the South African market – each averaging 80MB data per month. That has grown data to 14% of revenue, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
Dublin Web 2.0 Summit shows start-ups looking at SA
The Web 2.0 Summit in Dublin was notable for its speaking line-up, but the real surprise was found among the start-ups on show, and their understanding of the South African market, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.
More than a million South Africans active on Twitter
Recent research findings on social media in South Africa highlighted the rise of Twitter. Arthur Goldstuck digs deeper into the data to explain what it all means.
Prezence promises mobility for the masses
Prezence, the digital agency part-owned by Primedia, has always been proud of its ability in the mobile space, says CTO Tim Bishop, and now, with the appointment of CEO Prakash Patel, it is able to provide a full range of strategic digital solutions to clients.