by hashtagsouthafrica | Aug 3, 2015 | Digital World, Social Media Awareness, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
If you are following the battle of the short messaging systems, you might think it is a one-dimensional contest between the systems that maintain your chat history for all time – like Twitter and Facebook – and the so-called disappearing messengers – like Snapchat –...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 24, 2015 | South Africa
I had the great opportunity to attend ICANN47 in Durban two years ago. The Global Audience expanded my understanding of the Internet as I knew it. What is ICANN ? ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 18, 2015 | Digital World, South Africa
The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1998–2000, during which stock markets in industrialised nations saw their equity value rise sharply from growth in the more recent Internet sector and related technology fields. A combination of rapidly...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 11, 2015 | Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is already making inroads in several industries, including healthcare. A session at Augmented World Expo 2015 highlighted six of them. Image: Erin Carson/TechRepublic “[Healthcare is] one of the most important and practical applications of AR...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 10, 2015 | Digital World, Mobile technology, Multi Screen
In the UK, customers’ buying habits are changing. People now use an average of three devices [1] and with 32% of them making a purchase every month on a smartphone, the UK is now the number one country in Europe for mobile shopping [1]. Now more than ever, consumers...
