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Tag Archives: South Africa
South African ATMs Now Practice Self-Defense
In many African countries, ATMs are a constant target for criminals. In South Africa, the problem has recently esclated as criminals use explosives to blow ...
Another Linux distro comes out of South Africa
Kongoni, a Slackware based distro from South Africa announced their first stable release yesterday.
Kongoni is the Shona word for the Gnu (also known as a ...
Feedalizr Review: Lifestreaming on the Desktop
Feedalizer is an Adobe Air desktop lifestreaming application built by MIH Swat in South Africa. It’s interesting because of the way it currently integrates ...
Inside Google’s New South African Office
The staff of Google South Africa recently posted some photos of their new offices, nicknamed the Rubik’s Cube. Check out the photos below…
The South African ...
Microsoft Targets South African Piracy
When it comes to piracy, Africa is an especially tricky market. Most companies will state that markets in Africa are simply ‘too small’ to worry ...
Interview With Luganda/Firefox Translator Olweny San James
In August, students at Makerere University made international news headlines when they undertook the ambitious project of translating Mozilla’s Firefox web browser from English into ...
Posted in Education, Interviews, Web Also tagged firefox, interview, language, linguistics, makerere, mozilla, olweny, translat@thon, translation Leave a comment
Afrigator Acquired
Big news in the African development space this week. Following the news that Ushahidi scored new funding, the African blogosphere aggregator tool Afrigator has ...
The Popularity of Programming Languages in Africa
Will Larson put together this study at Irrational Exuberance that explores the global popularity of programming languages. The languages he chose to look at were: ...
Posted in Industry News Also tagged Algeria, Egypt, kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, ocaml, perl, programming, python, Senegal, Tunisia 8 Comments
South African Student Wins Google Open Source Challenge
The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google’s first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open source software development possible, concluded ...
South Africa’s Presidential Hotline is Finally Going Live