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Google glass

Why Google Glass will be important, even if it fails

Even though Google Glass is doomed to fail, we should thank tech companies for experimenting, writes Alistair Fairweather

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Google Chrome Eye

Is Google abusing its power?

Is Google a force for openness and good, or a repressive monopoly?

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Apple TV

Apple TV: Prime time – all the time

Apple TV is bound to get the television industry feeling decidedly nervous

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Fibre trenching

How extortion is hobbling broadband roll-out

We need to start seeing broadband as a vital service and treating those who threaten it with severity

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Facebook Home Cover Feed

Facebook Home, the Trojan Horse

Facebook’s competitors should be careful of underestimating the young company – especially with its new product, Facebook Home

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Dina Pule

Government’s ICT policy is slowly strangling South Africa

Government’s information and communications technology plans could be doing immense long-term damage to our economy, writes Alistair Fairweather

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Brian Chesky

Genius capitalises on insanity

Free-thinking technology pioneers the world over have learnt to persevere despite deep skepticism

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Brian Chesky

Brian Chesky: The homeless entrepreneur

Chesky isn’t a vagrant or a charity case, he’s the chief executive of one of the US’s most exciting internet companies – Airbnb

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk: SA’s billionaire space explorer and inventor

Elon Musk is a South African who has transformed online commerce, cars and space travel, and dreams of sending the first humans to Mars

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Internet online privacy

Policing the Internet

Hacking could be used as an excuse to police the internet more but we need online openness to expose wrongdoing

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Alistair Fairweather

Alistair Fairweather is the Digital Platforms Manager for the Mail & Guardian Online. Alistair attended Rhodes University and graduated in Journalism, Economics and English. Since then he has been working in online publishing.

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