After looking at the data there are a few thing that stand out when looking at emerging vs developed nations - in developed countries users are more interested in ease of use and input method, whereas emerging country users tend to focus predominantly on the brand name.
Month: March 2011
At present Firefox has a nearly 30% market share, and growth seems to have levelled off now - we are looking at you Google Chrome. Where Firefox was always a lightweight secure browser, it has quickly become very powerful, and the number of add-ons are mind boggling.
The few of us who regularly reinstall everything on PC already know the process - reinstall Windows, then head over to every website to install all the apps you use. Ninite fixes that.
While not close to Facebook's 600+ million users, professional-focussed social network LinkedIn just hit 100 million users, with around 71 million users who actively use the site. Interesting fact - of these users, 79 million job changes have been tracked so far. Whether LinkedIn had anything to do with this is not known, but clearly LinkedIn is becoming the defacto online CV building tool.
In keeping with its ongoing commitment to foster innovation in Africa, Google is announcing the launch of Umbono, its new technology incubator, which will be based in Cape Town, South Africa. Bringing together seed capital, Google mentorship, angel investors, local tech stars, entrepreneurs and business leaders, the Umbono programme will help selected start-up teams transform their ideas into companies.
Dropbox has been available for a while now, but there are still some people out there that do not know about it, but also it is still a best of breed solution. Here is quick primer on all things Dropbox.
Minutes before the opening an army of blue T-shirt wearing Apple employees announced themselves on the street putting up blockades and handing out little tickets to each person entitling them to a maximum of 2 iPads. Moments before opening the doors they began cheering, taking pictures and building the crowd up as if one were at a rock concert...
While other countries have had traffic conditions built into Google Maps, SA has not been so lucky so far. Luckily Tomtom has stepped up - they are making their actual live HD Traffic service available to anyone with a browser
Microsoft today announced the launch of the latest version of the world’s most-installed browser with the release of Windows Internet Explorer 9 at an event at the SXSW Interactive conference. Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft’s most-downloaded browser beta of all time. We take a look at the final release.
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 has been having a tough time getting developers to start writing apps for it. While the interface is brilliant, the lack of applications is still a significant drawback for potential buyers. Microsoft is pushing the development of new apps, and now that Nokia is also starting to user WP7 in future, the potential to create a proper competitor to iOS and Android is significant.
When iOS 4.3 was still in Beta, a few videos started showing up online that show off the new multitasking gestures - some of which actually do look like a great idea. Unfortunately it never showed up in the final version.
OK, we have all been in situations where we wish we could record something we see , or a conversation, right? First off, dont think of the beach, think of real life situations which we can record and document, and also share.
