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...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 10, 2015 | Multi Screen, South Africa
The Rundown Consumers increasingly rely on the mobile web to research and make purchases, which makes it more important than ever for companies to have an effective mobile presence. But what makes a good mobile site? To answer this question, Google partnered with...
by hashtagsouthafrica | Jun 1, 2015 | Digital Privacy, Map Locations
Q. Is it true a smartphone can embed map coordinates in the photos you take with it? A. Smartphones have the ability to capture a lot of information about each photo snapped, including the camera’s settings at the time and place the picture was taken. This material is...
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