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Brainstorm Magazine

August, 2010 ‘Internet freedom fighters‘

This year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates its 20th year of creating legal precedent in cases involving internet users and the governments and companies that try to silence them.

August, 2010 ‘A leaf of Google’s book‘

Stellenbosch is developing a start-up culture at the university in a bid to encourage innovation.

July, 2010 ‘A couple of geeks‘

Mosiuoa Tsietsi is working on next generation network services that enable the deployment of Skype-like services on a telecoms network.

June, 2010 ‘The new face(s) of computing‘

If Microsoft is going to be relevant to the next generation of computer users, who better to pay attention to than the leading expert on how the next generation is using social networks?

April, 2010 ‘Cloud over Wits‘

African free software stalwart Prof Derek Keats is propelling Wits University into the cloud as an efficient way of managing resources at the institution.

April, 2010 ‘Rocking the world to its core‘

A Stellenbosch-based firm is set to reap the rewards of a growing market for superconductive circuit technology with its world-first design tool.

March, 2010 ‘Rethinking personal health records‘

Who would have thought that the cardboard file that your doctor uses to identify you could become the source of a multimillion-dollar initiative to improve personal health records?

February, 2010 ‘The Agile Revolution’

The move from a ‘waterfall’ to ‘agile’ software development methodology at Salesforce.com is credited with the company’s ability to quickly adapt to the needs of its more than 67 000 customers.

December, 2009 ‘Towards a you-centric web‘

Aza Raskin, head of User Experience at Mozilla Labs, thinks that ‘the browser really is the next big thing’.

November, 2009 ‘I see you’

New technology being developed at Stellenbosch could improve airport security significantly.

October, 2009 ‘Turning to nature for the robot revolution’

Nature and robots could almost be viewed as the antithesis of one another. A lab in Berkeley is proving the opposite.

September, 2009 ‘Mapping the world class African city‘ (republished in PositionIT)

The City of Johannesburg is closing off its GIS data in a ‘cost recovery’ move that other South African municipalities are set to follow. This, say some industry players, is not in keeping with Joburg’s plans to become ‘a world-class African city’.

‘Technology incubators: how successful are they really?‘

Incubators supporting start-ups with infrastructure and networking rather than cash are claiming success at every turn. But how much success are they really having?

August, 2009 ‘While governments debate, people create

‘Contrary to popular belief, most mapping data is not free. At least one open source project aims to make it so.

June, 2009 ‘Giving it all away‘

Why would you want to share your company’s intellectual property when your business is to sell content?

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