Future Trends

6 trends that will help accelerate Nigeria’s tech revolution #MWA2015

On Day One of Mobile West Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, a panel of five experts predicted what they believe are the next things that…

4 inventions that promise a healthier future for us all

Every single minute of our modern lives is marked by a different creation that was probably unimaginable about a handful of years ago. How…

Memeburn goes behind Gyft’s big Bitcoin ecosystem plan

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. Unlike platinum which has an industrial use case for, say, the automotive industry, there are none that exists for…

4 trends that will shape the future of music in Africa

Typewriters, rotary dial telephones, cassette tapes, video stores and spools of film- just some items of which next-generation children won’t experience or understand. Technology…

What does the Internet of Things mean for your business and your network?

You’ve heard of the Internet of Things (or Internet of Everything) by now, I’m sure. It’s things like your fridge telling you when you’ve…

11 massive predictions about the future of mobile and mobile data

At this stage, telling anyone that we live in a mobile world seems more or less pointless. Our phones are hardwired into our daily…

PayPal Galactic: is the move into space payments smart or just plain crazy?

To quote Captain Kirk in the classic Star Trek TV series, “Space, the final frontier”. This has been the premise of many a sci-fi…

Kipochi brings Bitcoin to Africa through M-Pesa

Kipochi just launched its Bitcoin transfer service in Kenya using M-Pesa as its running platform. This service would allow people across Kenya to send…

The end of Moore’s law: Q&A with POET technologies’ Peter Copetti

In the third and final installment on the Moore’s Law series, Graeme Lipschitz sits down with POET technologies executive, Peter Copetti, to discuss their…

Contextual advertising: the ins, outs and where it’s heading to next

We have all been hit by contextual advertising. Whether we have acted on it or not is another question; but it has definitely impacted…

The end of Moore’s Law: where to next?

In the second article of the series, Memeburn columnist Graeme Lipschitz discusses how technologists are innovating to take computer processing and storage forward. So…

The end of Moore’s Law: a brief history

In this first of a series of articles, Graeme Lipschitz discusses what Moore’s law is, some theory and history behind it, and why it…

Can this couple live on Bitcoin alone for 90 days?

This is pretty interesting, a couple about to get married intends to spend the first 90 days of their newlywed life living on nothing…

We are in the process of becoming data [LeWeb]

We’re making far more data than we can derive actual value from, says John Battelle, Chairman and CEO of Federated Media Publishing. Battelle reckons…

PR’s digital makeover means it’s more crucial than ever

For a while now PR has moved steadily towards securing a seat on the board. The fact that reputational damage is a huge business…

Beyond wearables: brands could capitalise on the Internet of Things

“The Internet of Things” as a term dates as far back as 1999, but it is only recently that we have started to see…

Jeremiah Owyang: Brands, startups have to ‘let go in order to gain more’ [LeWeb]

The idea of a business utilising its idle capacity is nothing new but it’s fast emerging as the poster boy for the sharing economy…

Watch out Bitcoin, Feathercoin wants in on your limelight

Initially the popular e-currency, Bitcoin, snuck up on traditional media. Once outlets caught wind of it, though, it seemed to stick. Now, a new…

Elon Musk: Mars is a fixer upper, electric cars are still getting a raw deal

Human beings have two choices: begin settling on other planets or face extinction. That’s the message from renaissance man cum-billionaire Elon Musk, who was…

The Meeker files: ‘Queen of the net’ says mobile internet growth still accelerating

If for some reason you still think that mobile is anything less than the present and future if the internet, think again. While global…

Apple’s Tim Cook thinks the best place for wearable tech is the wrist

Ever wondered why the most likely rumors surrounding Apple and wearable tech have focused on a potential smartwatch? If that’s the direction it chooses…

Merging the tangible in the digital era to make magic [Net Prophet]

The world is obsessed with the ability to touch things. As a society, we are more willing to pay for something we can physically…

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