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Using the Internet of Everything to build Africa’s smart cities of the future

Today, only 1% of all things are connected in our world. In the next ten years, this number will increase dramatically — and with…

4 things you really need to know about getting more women in tech

It’s the eve of my favorite day of the year: Election Day. Twenty year old wonks much like myself celebrate such a day because…

Wirelurker virus discovered, ‘heralds new era’ for Apple software attacks

Reports of a new trojan-like malware being pushed around could spell real danger for Apple users, both mobile and desktop. The so-called Wirelurker has…

Beyond ‘the customer is always right’: understanding the social shopper

The consumer has always been right, but now they are so informed by their peers that they are savvier than ever when it comes…

This Dutch student is building an ambulance drone

Drones have a bad reputation, an almost irredeemable bad reputation even when proposed to be put to good use. The bad boy reputation is…

I can haz photoshop ur Pepperspray Cop

When does copycatting become a meme? A new craze has kicked up in the US in the wake of an “occupy” protest at the…

Breaking news: Visa, Fundamo unveil emerging markets MCommerce product

Visa, the world’s largest credit and debit card network, has unveiled a new product that allows people to access a prepaid account through their…

The ghost in the machine — Inside Siri

It didn’t take long for hackers to crack the Siri protocol and discover exactly how Siri works. The beautiful thing about the hack was…

What Africa needs to innovate on a global scale

It’s common knowledge that Africa, as continent, has been a leading innovator when it comes to mobile. Given that mobile phones arrived on a…

Gamification: The hype becomes reality

Research company Gartner reckons that by 2014, more than 70% of the Forbes’ major companies will have at least one “gamified” application. The research…

Fully automatic: 7 mind-blowing tech innovations

Recently, I wrote an article discussing how rapid technological innovation may ultimately have far reaching impact on the job market through jobless growth. This…

Were the Luddites onto something?

Back in the early 1800s a group of disgruntled artisans based around Nottingham, in the UK, began a movement that opposed the new technology…

The rise of China and other mega-trends from Mary Meeker

Queen of the Net, Mary Meeker, presented her “Internet Trends” for the year at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011 in San Francisco earlier this…

When piracy goes mainstream

I was quite taken aback to discover a very interesting article posted on the ABC news network’s Technology Blog, called The Case For Piracy….

Josh Spear: ‘Collective Action’ and ‘New World Economies’

“When I was old enough to talk, I told my parents I wanted to sell ideas,” says Josh Spear. He must be a rich…

Africa: Turning the tech world upside down (Part 2)

In the first part of this article I discussed — picking up from talks I gave at PopTech and Nokia World 2011 — “The…

Big Data: It’s both about size and technique

We’re in the age of the petabyte, exabyte and zettabyte. We’re being overwhelmed with information, and we don’t know what to do about it….

Five ways Africa can move up technologically [Tech4Africa]

Africa is lagging in technological innovation says TED Fellow, Ndubuisi Ekekwe. The continent’s obsession with consuming technology has left it lagging as a technological…

Africa: Turning the tech world upside down (Part 1)

In business white space is defined as a place, “…where rules are vague, authority is fuzzy, budgets are non existent, and strategy is unclear…”…

P2P DNS – Taking ownership of the internet

DNS is one of those core technologies on which the internet runs. For most end users, DNS is pretty much invisible until they want…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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