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Mobiles versus Laptops

Cory Doctorow is one of my heroes.  A great writer, an outspoken champion of the commons, and someone who is not afraid to be himself in public.  I have relied on his ideas countless times… 

SA Telecoms – One Step Forward, Two Back

South Africa, which recently made a great leap forward in the opening up of competition in the telecommunications is in danger of making an even bigger leap backwards thanks to the license fees being proposed… 

7 Things You May or May Not Know About Me

Tagged by the fearless and gregarious Mark Surman, I semi-reluctantly allow myself to become  a vector for the 7 things meme/social virus.  I suspect Patient Zero to be a Mozillian.  So here are…. 7 things… 

Why WiFi in Africa?

Imagine an alternative history.  Imagine that in 1995, when Microsoft launched their walled-garden MSN service, which they fully expected would, for all intents and purposes, put the Internet out of business, imagine that they succeeded.…