Future Trends

WhatsApp: Why you’re seeing a green circle around chat profile pictures

Social messaging giant WhatApp has made another upgrade to add a feature that makes users content creators. Most WhatsApp users relish the status update…

Meta launches Ouest Pro, with facial sensors for your avatar

Meta has unveiled the Meta Quest Pro, the first in a new line of advanced headsets. The innovative headset is packed with what Meta…

Twitter’s new edit-tweet feature now out in these countries

Twitter has rolled out its much-anticipated edit function to four countries. It’s not in the country yet, but the feature was introduced in New…

Here’s one app that’s saving lives by bending time | Time Keeper app

Janssen South Africa has launched an app that helps patients with multiple Myeloma have more time to fight back. When patients receive a Multiple…

How to add voiceover to YouTube Shorts videos | New YouTube feature

YouTube has made an addition to it’s short form video sharing platform YouTube Shorts. YouTube Shorts, which also hosts user content now allows users…

How to turn screenshot scribbles into perfect shapes

Here’s a life hack that most wished they knew. That’s if you don’t already know it by now. It’s a screenshot hack to get…

Four things banks should let go of in 2022

In 2008, Steve Jobs pulled a CD-less MacBook Air out of a brown paper bag signaling the beginning of the end for CD’s. This…

Drone sports photography is on a power play

Casual sports fans — not to mention people who couldn’t care less about the home team’s record — are invariably surprised to learn that…

4 technologies that are rapidly changing online search habits

The traditional search via desktop browser has been on the decline since advent of the iPhone a decade ago. Currently, a typical mobile user…

Beyond the cloud: what your business will look like in the future

South African companies moving to cloud-based infrastructure need to understand that the cloud is not the end of the journey – it is just…

How would the world combat the zombie apocalypse in the digital age?

What would you do if you were faced with a zombie apocalypse? With the popularity of fiction like The Walking Dead and World War Z, it’s become…

Jonathan Margolis: the harsh truth about tech predictions [EMEA Atmosphere]

Nothing makes people quite as uppity about the future as technology. And few things get as much attention as a high-profile tech personality making…

The network of the future is all about context [EMEA Atmosphere]

Technology is changing everything. As a reader of this site, you know that all too well. But what you might not know is that…

Listen to Professor Toby Walsh give a lecture on AI at UCT

World-renowned expert in artificial intelligence (AI) Toby Walsh, recently gave a talk at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The talk, entitled “Will Artificial Intelligence…

Is technology really replacing tech jobs?

Picture this: A vehicle stops outside your home. You get in. Your favourite music starts to play. The news that you are interested in,…

Why the Internet of Things isn’t about things at all

Just what is the Internet of Things? The generally accepted definition is a digital ecosystem wherein everyday objects have network connectivity, allowing them to…

Why chatbots won’t replace humans

Fear-mongering is everywhere, in every industry. And most recently, the contact centre has experienced its own dose of this with the announcement that Facebook…

5 of the latest advancements in nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is rapidly gaining traction across a range of industries, from agriculture to water treatment to energy storage. While nanotechnology was first developed in…

What will it take to drive mainstream smart home adoption in SA?

The results of the Intel Security International Internet of Things Smart Home Survey are in. The survey polled over 9000 consumers in nine countries[i]…

Smart cities: 5 security areas CIOs should watch

Car navigation systems that can predict where and when traffic jams might occur, by siphoning data from sensors in roads and other vehicles. Cameras…

Will digital service delivery improve your life in 2019?

A quarter of the way through 2016 and it’s clear that service delivery is set to be one of the main topics of conversation…

Fibre to everywhere is in South Africa’s near-term future

South Africa’s telecoms industry is on the cusp of its next wave of growth, thanks to the growing uptake of bandwidth intensive applications such…

Cutting through the digital transformation hype and jargon

Words… words … words … When I speak to clients, I hear many different interpretations of what “digital transformation” is, illustrating that the term…

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