Posted on January 27th, 2010 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Entrepreneurship, Technology
It’s official it’s the Apple iPad. See Engadget’s live blogging. Here’s a picture one of this first official pictures:
I want one!!!
Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, Technology
A recent Forbes article on Google is a very interesting read. Here is an extract:
Your day begins with a wake-up call from your Google Android phone. As you run to the shower, you hit Google News and check headlines, then Gmail. Your first appointment of the day has been moved to a new location; Google [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Apple, Technology
Sun Computer’s vision is: “The Network is the Computer“, well I think this is finally starting to take shape in the form of cloud computing. Bandwidth, even at speeds approaching 30MBps, is still orders of magnitude slower than main memory. However, I love the netbook-type (or webbook) computer that a company called, Litl, recently launched. [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, CRM, Technology
Inc. magazine recently published this list of 10 free or cheap tools for Start-ups. I use Skype, Zoho and Google Docs. I would add TaDaList from 37signals and Evernote. Easy to use free software.
Did they miss any good ones?
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Technology
Sign up and get your Google Voice account soon. See my last post on why I like Google Voice. Please share your experience…
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, Carel's Conversations, Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology, Venture Capital
Hasso Plattner’s African Venture fund was launched in early 2008. In February 2009 I attended the fund’s Emerging Market Africa conference in South Africa. HPVA has invested ZAR80mm of ZAR350mm in 5 companies to date and expect to invest in at least 5 more. HPVA doesn’t disclose investments and shareholding, although they did indicate that [...]
Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Carel
Filed under South Africa, Technology
MXit is a South African social networking company with 12 million subscribers around the world. According to MXit it is “a next generation Mobile Instant Messenger that connects you to a world of expression, using both instant messaging and social networking.”
MXit recently launched an iPhone app. I’ve been a beta user for a few weeks. [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, Technology
These days you can make really cheap international calls directly from your iPhone. I’ve used VIP, Jajah, ATT Wireless, Skype and Google Voice. All these services will use your mobile minutes, with the expection of Skype’s iPhone app in WiFi mode. In this post I’ll give my experience with each service from a cost and [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, SAP, South Africa, Technology
Thanks to the Collaboration@Rural project, SAP enables small grocers in rural South Africa to sell the goods, their customers actually need – through a mobile delivery system.
Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa, Technology
On March 11, 2009 GrandCentral finally became Google Voice. I’ve used GrandCentral since November 2006 and found it to be a very useful and reliable service. David Poque does a great job of explaining GrandCentral’s original “one number for life” approach. In July 2007 GrandCentral was acquired by Google and for awhile people thought that [...]
