I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2014 Mobile World Congress, the yearly showcase of the latest and greatest devices from manufacturers such as Samsung, Nokia and seemingly every Chinese manufacturer possible.The major takeout of the event: innovation is dead. The latest Samsung S5, the successor to the equally brilliantly named S4 looks almost exactly the same as its predecessor except with a .1-inch larger screen. We’ve reached something of a stalemate in the mobile arms race so ...

The much talked about success story of Africa tends to highlight the continent's growth. The economy might be improving at an impressive rate yet there's still a growing pool of young, talented and creative citizens who are left unemployed. To remedy this, big businesses play an increasingly important role to foster Africa's noteworthy potential.To give you a better idea of how such programmes can really change the lives of people around the continent, winner of the 2013 Anizsha Prize, ...

By now, we’ve all realised that content marketing is the new black: a trend that's unlikely ever to go out of fashion. This is because it's not so much a trend as an inevitability of the digital age.By virtue of the high premium they set on their own attention, the digital consumer continually raises the bar for what brands need to deliver if they are to compete with screaming goats and other treasures of this information-saturated landscape. Brands, accordingly, ...

The Nokia Lumia 1520 signifies the increasing importance of large screen phablets in the market. Although Windows Phone is comparatively hardware efficient, a lot of people want their devices to feature fastest hardware. It is bigger and faster than any other Windows Phone till date. Based on hardware specifications, it can easily compete with any other high-end Android phablet in the world right now. It comes with a 6-inch display, Snapdragon 800 processor and a top-notch 20MP PureView camera. But ...

While we may not yet have the hover boards, flying cars and self-lacing shoes promised in 80s cult movie Back To The Future, the past 10 years have seen the introduction of an unprecedented number of cool, useful tech products and services that have made the life of the modern PR so much easier.Some among us may remember a time before mobile phones, when we had no way of keeping in touch with important calls after hours. Or even worse, ...

There has long been an overwhelming sentiment -- particularly among proper petrol-heads -- that the modern electric car is doomed to failure.And, to be fair, the battery-powered vehicle continues to flounder where it matters most – sales. Even today, new models using electric-exclusive drivetrains tend to fizzle out faster than you can say “zero tailpipe emissions”.But advocates of the all-electric automobile have soldiered on – admirably so, in fact – right from the bolting together of the very ...

Apps, software, hardware, social networks, tech and more tech. Tech is so hot right now. Silicon Valley has permeated our lives, even the non techie types have a sense of what this mystical world of where Facebook and Google resides. It's no surprise that HBO has decided to take a comedic look at this magical land where it seems the web is created.We have seen a few television shows try to chronicle what life is like in the Valley ...

If you've been to a tech conference, or even just browsed through the odd tech site, then you've probably seen the term "Big Data" used over and over again in the past couple of years. The trouble is that the term's made any form of data seem pretty scary and impenetrable.Enter Google's new massively open online course (MOOC) "Making Sense of Data". The course, which is available from 18 March to 4 April, aims to help anyone who wants ...

What do a graffiti artist, Twitter, a design conference and a South African township have in common? They're all part of #anotherlightup -- the latest social media-fuelled campaign hoping to make a difference through the power of public art and crowdfunding.Launched at this year's Design Indaba, the #Anotherlightup project is hoping to raise funds to install 80 street lights along a 700 metre path between public water points in Monwabisi Park. It aims to make the neighbourhood safer by ...

Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) -- a codeless app generator for publications -- now powers more than three-quarters of all digital issues consumed on mobile devices, Adobe has revealed.Newly unveiled data from Adobe shows that DPS -- which releases publications compatible with iOS, Android Tablets, and Kindle Fire -- seems to be driving the growth of digital reading, increasing both circulation and reader engagement for notable publications such as Wired, Time, National Geographic and GQ, amongst others.Since Adobe DPS was ...