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Street-front businesses win with Pokemon Go, different story for those indoors

I’ll admit: I’ve got to catch them all. And in all probability you do too. The last few weeks I’ve been reading the various…

Pokemon or big data: can you tell the difference?

It’s 2pm on a lazy Tuesday afternoon. You’ve had lunch, you’re feeling sleepy, and likely also trawling the web to find something to do….

How organisations can address the cultural shifts inherent in digital transformation

In business, the purpose of digital transformation is to create a culture of innovation thereby enabling revenue growth in the new digital world. Many…

Security vs productivity: the mobile device management conundrum

Given the significant productivity benefits delivered by mobility, it is unsurprising to note that it is fast becoming a way of life in many…

Quadrooter: 900m Qualcomm Android phones vulnerable to security flaw

The latest set of smartphone nasties floating around the internet has a pretty cool name, but could very well leave your own phone at…

5 amazing technologies that are yet to find their killer apps

The history of innovation is essentially a love story. For any new technology to be embraced and find mainstream success, it first must find…

Is your organisation digitising the workplace in a healthy manner?

Smartphones, 4G and cloud technologies have done wonders for our productivity and freed us from being desk-bound. We can now work from anywhere, at…

You can’t even begin to comprehend how big the Internet of Things is about to become

The extent to which the Internet of Things (IoT) is about to change our lives in the coming decades is difficult to fathom. For…

Forget contactless, this is how we’ll pay for things in the future

For decades, it was cash, cards and checks, but the way we pay has evolved massively in recent years. Internet shopping brought the high…

9 highly effective ways to talk to your CEO about prioritizing website security

Online security threats are a rapidly growing menace. I know it, you know it, more than 37 million Ashley Madison users know it. So…

Ashley Madison represents new darker stage of cyber hacking

In late July, Avid Life Media (ALM) – owners of online dating site Ashley Madison – confirmed it had been the victim of a…

Instagram plagiarism, Twitter schoolings: 5 Memeburn posts you loved this week

It’s been a pretty hectic week, filled with scandals, launches, and history-changing discoveries. But if you’ve been wrapped up in work, you might not…

Why education needs technology-led transformation in the contact centre

As with most other industries, education and academia is fast being transformed by the rapid shift to online mechanisms of consumption and delivery. The…

Meet Phambili, a new web app that helps commuters calculate taxi change

Toby Shapshak, the editor and publisher of Stuff Magazine South Africa, gave a Ted X talk in 2014, in which he talked about how…

From Aristotle to AI: the evolution of storytelling [Digital Edge]

Stories are the organising principle of reality. That’s as true today as it was at the dawn of human consciousness. But the way we…

Autonomous cars won’t really take off until manufacturers start cooperating

Every month seems to bring a new development in the autonomous motoring space, whether it’s Tesla drivers being able to beta test software or…

What will the internet look like in 2040?

A journalist recently asked me what I think the internet will look like in 2040. The question took me a little by surprise, because…

The IoT goldmine hiding in plain sight: plugging a brain into billions of already connected devices

A connected world is not automatically a smarter world. Data must be digested to become intelligence. Connectivity must be harnessed to become action. We’ve…

Here’s what you need to know about ensuring successful governance for agile projects

We often hear horror stories about business projects ending heavily over budget, with the flexible nature of agile being used to justify the lack…

Through the looking glass: why South African CIOs need to run to keep up with tech

You know things aren’t business as usual in the IT world when Gartner vice president of research, John Lovelock, asks: “Have you read Alice…

Your home will have at least 5 connected media-enabled devices by 2019

By the year 2019, there will be an average of five connected media devices per household around the globe. That’s according to new analysis…

7 fast facts about the South African ecommerce space

While most of us take for granted the ability to buy and sell goods online, ecommerce still has a long way to go in…

Stikeez, Uber, and JMPD: 5 Memeburn posts you loved this week

Seven days is a long time in tech. This time last week, Google’s logo was more or less the same one that had existed…

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South Africa’s EV Shift Gets a Major Boost

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Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel