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Here’s why you shouldn’t bet the farm on untested tech

While a plethora of new payment solutions are coming to market, businesses should be cautious about moving to new solutions just for the sake…

The answer lies within you: PayPal’s Leblanc talks about the future of online security

Jonathan Leblanc, Head of Global Developer Advocacy at PayPal and Braintree, says that biometric security systems like fingerprint and eyeball scans are a thing…

Delivering against ‘always-on’ expectations with software-defined infrastructure

We’re living in an “always-on” age, where consumers, employees and business leaders alike expect 24/7 responsiveness and availability. Keeping an IT infrastructure performing at…

Could Stellar be the answer to enable financial inclusion around the globe?

When the internet first came round in the mid-nineties, people didn’t expect to see impactful tools like open-source libraries like Wikipedia or renting sites…

7 top tips for making it as a woman in tech

As a woman with more than 17 years of work experience in the challenging and constantly evolving tech industry, I have had my fair…

3 reasons you should be wary of free WiFi

Public Wi-Fi is almost everywhere nowadays. Coffee shops, libraries and even airports have installed hotspots to feed the growing demand for ubiquitous Wi-Fi. While…

Buy shoes with your watch: wearable tech’s transformative power on retail

The days of going online to buy the next addition to your wardrobe, a power bank for your laptop or even your groceries are…

A return to honesty: grappling with the future of online porn [SXSW]

Everyone on the internet looks at porn. You do, I do, but more worryingly, so do children of very young ages. Given the unchecked…

Big Data loses its hipster shackles, is set to go mainstream

The term Big Data has been thrown around pretty willfully over the past couple of years. It makes sense too, after all, petabytes of…

Shaquille O’Neal: basketball legend, author, über geek [SXSW]

Shaquille O’Neal is many things — former basketball champ, actor, reality TV star, author — but a tech geek? Turns out he considers himself…

Intel yet to name new CEO with just weeks left to decide

With just weeks to go, Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker has yet to name a new CEO even though it’s had nearly four months…

Elon Musk talks Mars, Chinese solar power and having more fun [SXSW]

Space explorer, entrepreneur whizz and the inspiration behind Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark character in Iron Man, Elon Musk took to the stage of…

How Big Data is being used to record the future

“The past doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes”, reads the famous Mark Twain quote in the introduction of a research paper suitably titled Mining…

Living with Glass and the birth of emoji: top tech stories you should read

Let’s say you’re walking along the street with your friend. They’ve got an iPhone, you’ve got an Android. You tell them about an awesome…

A smart new world: the future we were promised is almost here

At the end of 2012, Joshua Topolsky wrote an editorial for The Verge entitled “Reasons to be excited“. In the piece, Topolsky stated that…

7 major tech trends your business needs to take advantage of right now

Ahh, the future. That mystical place filled with robots and flying cars… and hopefully your businesses. Things are moving incredibly fast when it comes…

5 reasons why innovation in health care is important

Innovation in healthcare is becoming a key trend in many emerging market countries as well as developed markets. It makes sense too: it’s a…

Big Data, cloud and mobile must leverage augmented reality

Data is a big deal. We digitise more data in a day than we have ever done before, as social media and quick tech…

How FNB’s dotFNB stores are merging the digital banking and retail experience

First National Bank (FNB) recently added another string to its innovation bow with the launch of the dotFNB store — a unique type of…

Hey big retailers, the way you’re using Big Data is starting to get creepy

The data grab is underway at every retailer in the world at the moment, not to mention large enterprises and your favourite social networking…

Netflix’s bet on data and the death of Friendster: top stories you should read

Ah, technology. As popstars and Netflix have discovered, advances in computing can mean big business — be it a smoother sound in your next…

Groupon: why we need to stop viewing it as a tech company

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason was fired after more than four and a half years during which he managed to cash out US$30-million and holding…

As part of its emerging markets push, Evernote Business heads to South Africa

The to-do list app that has become the backbone of entire businesses is expanding its global roll out to offer its business products to…

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