[Adforum Worldwide Summit] Insight into the future

[Darren Woolley] Day six of the Adforum CEO Summit in NYC was an insight into the future today. Meetings with industry-leading digital agencies Huge, R/GA and Digitas reminded us of the pace of change.

Comments [3] [11 Oct 2010 12:28]

Why Africa should prepare for smart phones... and Apple rising!

[Anice Hassim] Somewhere between being different and expensive, Apple has become cool AND cheap. This is the start of a virtuous cycle as it enters the developing world with its iOS devices. Reading and watching coverage of the Apple iPad and iPhone 4 launch in China last month, I couldn't help being struck by what a difference a year made.

[11 Oct 2010 12:19]

What’s in a name?

[Marion Scher] When I started out as a freelancer 100 years or so ago that’s what I was - a freelance journalist. No one queried that title or said “Is that all you do?” other than some family members enquiring as to when I would be getting a proper job!

Comments [2] [16 Sep 2010 13:29]

Why international TV drama is better

[Andrew Timm] Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in South Africa knows that this country has great stories to tell. And I’m not talking about rehashed apartheid guilt stuff. Just open a newspaper on any given day, listen to a conversation in a taxi, or to the callers on 702, and unlike New Zealand or Canada, where a flat tyre on a country road makes headline news, you will realise that we seem able to generate endless tales of human drama and intrigue.

Comments [7] [31 Aug 2010 12:08]

The iPod’s second coming

[Anice Hassim] It's the start of a busy gadget season that usually kicks off with a frisson of excitement with a certain ‘fruit’ company's music product refreshes. Last week, Apple sent out invitations that simply have a guitar with an Apple logo replacing the soundhole on it, inviting the media to a Stevenote this Wednesday, 1 September 2010.

Comments [3] [30 Aug 2010 12:46]

[Discovery Invest Leadership Summit] Knowledge on a silver platter

[Dale Imerman: @idale] Want to learn the secrets influential leaders are sharing about challenges facing the world economy, business, government and society? In a series of blog posts, I’ll serve you all the knowledge I got from the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit - on a silver platter.

Comments [1] [16 Aug 2010 14:00]

The good comes with the bad

[Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] Like Paris Hilton, I had occasion to frequent a South African court house this past week. It might have been a simpler affair if I too had been nicked on the wrong side of a dagga cloud but, alas, I was paying a traffic fine for a lapsed car-licence disc.

Comments [4] [07 Jul 2010 13:31]

BlackBerry writing – watch out

[Marion Scher] Ask any language purist and they’ll tell you how technology is affecting the English language – that is, watching it go down the tubes...

Comments [8] [05 Jul 2010 11:57]

More musings on the iPhone 4

[Anice Hassim] What would happen if arm manufacturers really did turn their swords to ploughshares? I think we might get a company like Apple.

Comments [4] [25 Jun 2010 12:54]

[WWDC] Day two – a far more serious affair

[Anice Hassim] SAN FRANCISCO: Day two, Tuesday, 8 June 2010, was a far more serious affair at WWDC, with the 5200 developers buckling down to soaking up as much time as they can with the some 1000 Apple engineers on site here at Moscone West.

Comments [2] [09 Jun 2010 10:05]