IOL carried this really funny story about a Florida prosecutor whose prank went very bad: Miami, Florida – A state prosecutor in Florida’s island city of Key West is under arrest after he allegedly ran naked and drunk across a parking lot and hopped into the wrong car, a local daily said on Tuesday. Albert…

Carly Fiorina’s departure from HP was reported a little while ago.  Just before it was reported, Fortune magazine ran an article about Fiorina’s gamble six years ago and questioned whether the company was better off after the merger with Compaq or not. It seems that her departure may not have been amicable.  Fortune has reported…

Ludicorp, the creators of Flickr, have this on their ‘About’ page.  Is this not the truest motivation for an entrepreneur? Our “corporate philosophy?? has an excellent summary in the       following passage from Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic       Action and the Cultivation of Solidarity by Charles Spinosa, Fernando       Flores &…

Imagine this … (hazy mist rolls in as the scene changes)Weary of many long hours maintaining a full-time job and still remaining faithful to your blog, you make a momentous decision one day …To blog full-time! Sound far-fetched?  Not at all.  In fact, I am noticing more and more people (and I am not talking…

I have posted about mobile broadband before.  While 3G is still a new thing here in South Africa, Om Malik has reported that it is very possible that the first HSDPA networks could go live this year. “HSDPA is positioned as a data service and data services can best be used on your PC,?? Lothar…

So there I was, linking from one site to the next and I came across the small law firm of Nicci Ferguson Inc.  This Cape Town based firm has a pretty nifty site and an even more progressive objective – to use their understanding of new technologies and South African law to provide a rare…

There are two items which could take you right down memory lane.  First up, Christie’s has an auction titled "The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications" which features a range of items from computing antiquity: Highlights include: •  Edmund C. Berkeley’s Giant brains or machines that think • …

If you are considering starting up or have already started up a blog orientated consulting company, take a look at InsideBlogging’s post on what they, as a blog consulting company, do.  I have started developing a business along these lines.  I do wonder if this is not just a fad that will fade into the…