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Vendors shipped 11.4m wearables in the first quarter of 2015

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), vendors shipped a total of 11.4-million wearables in the first quarter of 2015. Fitbit shipped the most…

The security benefits mean you’re mad not to join the as-a-service revolution

It’s easy to get lost in the IT acronyms being thrown around. The tech world rarely slows down for long enough to give us…

DDoS attacks: 5 strategies for defending your network

DoS attacks have evolved in strategy and tactics to become a resounding threat to businesses anywhere. Hackers design Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed…

5 big questions about the Internet of Things’ impact on business answered

Machine-to-Machine is about the ability to remotely collect data from devices and use this data in real-time to make more informed business decisions which…

The Internet of Things could see massive changes to logistics in South Africa

Recently, research firm Gartner released a report on the importance of the Internet of Things (IoT), a buzzword that simply refers to the connectivity…

Google refreshes, reinforces its user privacy and security settings

Google has rolled out two improvements to its privacy and security tools in a bid to give users more flexible options. There’s now a…

Forget the buzzwords: mind your (IT consulting) Language

What I mean to say is: Mind your buzzwordlittered jargoninfested language. Yikes. Too much? Well, let me tone it down a little. Among the…

The art and science of experiential marketing

People are pretty fickle. Don’t try and deny it; we are. It’s a fact that marketers and advertising execs the world over have been…

Why are Huawei, ZTE facing so much scrutiny?

I’m beginning to think we might as well just consider Huawei and ZTE, given that they seem to pop up together constantly in the…

Shared Economy may be the future of retail and selling of services

A new age of reciprocity is here as Shared Economy is starting to make its imprints. Research from popular French tech conference LeWeb shows…

Instagram’s history and internet in space: top tech stories you should read

When you snapped, cropped and filtered your last latté, did you stop to think about the company behind the retro photo app, and how…

You’ve been breached: 5 things you need to know about online security

Ethical hackers. Third party service providers. Security breaches. These all sound a lot like party favours at an event held by uber geeks at…

BitTorrent launches locked bundles, trying to distance itself from pirates

BitTorrent — the company behind the file format that users have been gleefully using to share and download pirated content for years — has…

Adobe kills Creative Suite, moves to service-based Creative Cloud

Adobe Creative Suite is no longer a product. It’s a service. What was once just an option, will become the only way to access…

Sorry, but your good idea isn’t innovation until you do something

An idea is not innovation. There exists an expansive divide between the idea and the execution of a project, between the concept and the…

Bitcoins for your business, pleasure or both

Now that the dust is starting to settle regarding the recent Bitcoin buzz and some interesting bystanders have lashed on to the story as…

Facebook’s invisible design and big data recruitment: top stories you should read

You’ve probably seen it a thousand times, but do you really notice the subtle lines on Facebook beckoning you to post that photo, give…

Google Street View: good for directions, great for catching crooks

Google Maps capture all sorts of things — like people getting on with their daily lives blissfully unaware of the fact that something is…

Google Glass’ real promise is among the elderly

Google Glass has a promising future — although not in the markets that Google thinks it’s targeting: urban early-tech adopters — they are a…

Shareholders: Amazon’s real advantage over its competitors

This quarter Amazon reported a US$82-million net profit on US$16.1-billion in sales for its fiscal first quarter and warned that it might lose more…

Slipping private boundaries: how the web is changing language

“What the internet has done is to create a space for language that runs and slips over the boundary of public and private language,…

Mistakes on social media and iTunes’ old age: top stories you should read

Chances are that you caught up on the events in Boston on social media. But what were you reading: fact or fiction? Perhaps you…

Google or the government: who’s really controlling our freedom online?

It’s an apt time to reflect on online freedom. On 3 May it’s World Media Freedom Day and South Africa, which has just passed…

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

Applications for the 2025 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship are open

Africa’s AI Revolution: Reclaiming the Digital Narrative

South Africa’s Deskless Workers: A Workforce Under Strain

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

What is Northvolt worth for German car companies?

Jaguar rebranding creative is crazy – good?

German luxury cars require a rethink for China