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How Microsoft’s latest tech focus could improve your meetings

Even though Skype is a widely popular conferencing and communications tool among consumers, it hasn’t impacted the business world quite the same. Despite Microsoft’s…

Digital transformation: the key contact centre focus

Customer experience is the last source of sustainable differentiation in a battle for the next generation digital consumer, and the only way for contact…

#UFOSA, disrupting banks, and 2001: A Space Odyssey: 5 Memeburn articles you loved this week

It’s been a long week, close to the end of a very long year, and you’re probably completely wrecked from trying to wrap all…

The world at work: are we on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution?

Are we on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution? Before answering the question, it’s worth reminding ourselves of what the first three did….

5 massive security threats set to emerge in 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT), a global network of objects equipped with connected sensors, is only just starting to take off in a big…

Vodacom Smart 6 review: not quite six of the best

Budget Android phones have really changed the smartphone market for the better. Not only do they force manufacturers to launch cheaper but better phones,…

How the IoT will change everything (and why it hasn’t yet)

By the time the Internet of Things takes over, home won’t just be where the heart is; it will be where the brain is,…

Google sent an internet balloon around the world in 22 days

Around the world in 80 days? Pssh. Google did it in 22… with a solar-powered balloon. Yep, the Project Loon team provided an update…

Want to go to Apple’s WWDC? You’ll need to enter a lottery

Apple’s announced the dates for the 2014 edition of its annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference and if you want tickets, chances are you’re going to…

Enterprise mobility conference aims to help big business take control of digital revolution

Big business has always been the engine room of global technology spending — Gartner estimates that the global IT market will be worth US$3.8…

Data journalism is changing the way we report elections: here’s how

Whenever there’s an election in any democratic country, its — and sometimes the world’s media — goes tends to be put on full alert….

Mass mobile marketing campaigns: why basic tech works better

The emerging markets mobile landscape does not, as yet, reflect those of more mature economies. Indeed, the smartphone penetration levels in a mid to…

New Pepsi football ad lets viewers take control of the plot

Excitement for the Soccer World Cup is building fast and Pepsi is doing its bit to add to it. The soft-drink mega company has…

Emerging markets catching up slowly as digital adspend to hit $137.53bn

If you’re looking for a decent slice of the global digital advertising pie, you’re still much better off being in North America than pretty…

Yes, Facebook’s killing your page… now grow up and stop moaning about it

This may be something of an unpopular opinion, but I honestly don’t understand why everyone’s up in arms over Facebook’s decision to be what…

Beyond Flappy Bird: could Vietnam teach the world a lesson in mobile games?

By now, everyone has heard of Flappy Bird. It quickly rose to prominence and is arguably the Gangnam Style of mobile gaming. With over…

Microsoft’s still top dog in the software game, but the cloud’s giving Salesforce a massive boost

Microsoft’s failings in the hardware space might’ve lost it a lot of cool, but it’s still seriously dominant in the software space. In fact,…

Gotta catch ’em all: the best of Google’s April Fool’s jokes

When it comes to April Fool’s day, Google doesn’t just sneak in a few half hearted jokes into its many services — it goes…

Understanding the value of Bitcoin means finding the right balance

As Bitcoin stabilises below US$500 for the first time since its eye-popping run to over US$1 000 in November 2013, many crypto pundits are…

Here’s why you need automation in your online marketing campaign

Take any course in marketing and you’re guaranteed to learn about the consumer decision-making process. In a nutshell, the consumer decision-making process is the…

7 really impressive ways people are using Google Glass

The thing about new technologies is that we can’t really be sure how people will use them until they actually, well, get to use…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

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

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV