Tag Archives: Technology

10,000 African Hours

The reason Appfrica Labs is structured in the way it is, is not only to empower East African software developers to create the solutions to ...
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Appfricast 7

Jon is Sick. Afriparty at SXSWi. Kongoni, a new African Linux distro. Zoopy and Vodacom, the plot thickens. Download or Stream the Podcast - M4A | ...
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Bit Torrent in Developing Countries

Where bandwidth is plentiful it’s become a curse to the media industry. The television studios hate it because people don’t need TiVo when the ...
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The Best and Worst Project Management Apps

In “Global Web Apps Failing the World Market” I looked at a number of web tools that claimed to be universal but failed the market ...
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Young, Tech and Dangerous

Mike Stopforth recently published a follow up to a 2007 post entitled “Ten (More) Young South African Digital Citizens To Watch“. In it he spotlight’s ...
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Gmail Goes Offline

If you’re working and living in the States, what to do when you have no internet connection is usually a bit of an afterthought. However ...
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The Trouble With Google’s SA Ad Policy

Mandy De Waal writes about recent controversies with Google SA’s policies and apparent discrepancies in their reseller certification program… Google South Africa set the cat among ...
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Are Subatomic Cities in our Future?

James Tour and his students at Rice University have created vehicles only slightly bigger than strands of DNA… The inventor of a car slightly wider than ...
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DotSUB: Any Video, Any Language

dotSUB wants to crowdsource the translation of video, from any language, to any language. dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the ...
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This Week in Appfrica [Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2008]

“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this ...
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