General Tech

The future of online privacy? Most of us aren’t all that bothered

Meabh Quoirin, managing director of Future Foundation closed the annual Future Foundation conference with an in-depth look at where privacy and anonymity on the…

VoIP is the future for the world’s telcos, but it won’t be an easy one

I recently wrote about operators saving a packet on toll charges by using IP technology at the core, while failing to pass the benefit…

Want to make better products? Figure out where they fit

“Product/Market Fit” is a brilliant concept. With this simple phrase, Steve Blank created a common language to refer to the point when a product…

Global device market on the up thanks to cheaper tablets, smartphones

The global tech giants will be pleased to hear this. We’re still buying devices in their billions, with little sign of a slowdown in…

The future of the web and being cool: .CO’s CEO talks the power of domains

How does a domain get cool? How does a domain becoming so trendy that everybody wants one? These are the questions that CEO of…

Obama won, Wolverine fired, Google Watch coming: #StuffToKnow this week

Well, the US government shut down (because of old men acting like children who didn’t get the toys they wanted), and after 16 day…

Illusions, whistleblowing and Anonymous: the power of the unseen [Wired 2013]

The mid-morning session (dubbed “The Power of the Unseen”) of Wired 2013 kicked off with a rousing performance from TED alumni and cyber-illusionist, Marco…

Fully automatic: 7 mind-blowing tech innovations

Recently, I wrote an article discussing how rapid technological innovation may ultimately have far reaching impact on the job market through jobless growth. This…

Were the Luddites onto something?

Back in the early 1800s a group of disgruntled artisans based around Nottingham, in the UK, began a movement that opposed the new technology…

The rise of China and other mega-trends from Mary Meeker

Queen of the Net, Mary Meeker, presented her “Internet Trends” for the year at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011 in San Francisco earlier this…

When piracy goes mainstream

I was quite taken aback to discover a very interesting article posted on the ABC news network’s Technology Blog, called The Case For Piracy….

Big Data: It’s both about size and technique

We’re in the age of the petabyte, exabyte and zettabyte. We’re being overwhelmed with information, and we don’t know what to do about it….

P2P DNS – Taking ownership of the internet

DNS is one of those core technologies on which the internet runs. For most end users, DNS is pretty much invisible until they want…

Meet Romo, the robotic smartphone

I guess I’m getting tired of reading about nebulous stuff happening in the cloud, so I’m spending a bit more time checking out what…

Münchausen by internet — The little known but not uncommon illness

We all know that one person. One who is either terminally ill, has some or other rare disease or that one who has tried…

3D printing for kids with Origo

When I was a kid, you could give me a stick and a puddle of mud and I would be entertained for hours. In…

How open source can help you build a voice-activated robotic arm

Sometimes you stumble on the most interesting projects, and you get all inspired to start making stuff yourself. The other day, I came across…

Security by obscurity returns to online cryptography

It seems that a new research paper released by the Royal Holloway, University of London, and University of Twente is ready to change the…

Amazon’s Kindle Fire is not an iPad killer, but boy it changes the game

Content. Content. Content. Apple gets it. And Amazon gets it. Is it any coincidence then that tablets created by these two companies will be…

MySQL website hacked

Yikes. I feel like I’ve taken a severe leaning toward being a security reporter, but I can’t help it. Every day there seems to…

Is your business ‘all in’ for the cloud?

Steve Ballmer’s quote — “for the cloud, we’re all in“; spoken in March last year, is rapidly becoming IT folklore. For most industry watchers…

Good riddance Carol Bartz

Personally, I’ve never liked Carol Bartz. For some reason, it is impossible for her name to be mentioned without a mental image of Sarah…

Acer’s New Nitro AI Gaming Gear Is Here—But Is It Worth It for South Africans?

R19,000 for Bass? Sony Tests South Africa’s Audio Appetite

Tech Stocks Tank – Can SA Survive a Global Meltdown?

SA Business Confidence: Fintech Lula Sounds Alarm on SME Reality

Why MVNOs are gaining ground — and how Huge NXTGN is accelerating the shift

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV

L2 charging and the power of dwell time

Tires and tariffs