Competition drives Uber to improve its ride

As Uber’s competitors ramp up, the ride-hailing app pioneer builds out its safety features, writes ARTHUR...

Project Bloodhound ready for South Africa

The quest to break the world land speed record is a long and winding road that...

Making Project Bloodhound possible

Project Bloodhound would not have been possible without the local community, a mobile operator and a...

Next big Switch is coming to gaming

The first major new gaming console brand in many years arrives in South Africa next week....

Facebook Apocalypse

Forget the Mayans. The real apocalypse in 2012 will come via Facebook, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK. In...

Mobicel is changing the mobile game

It’s a South African brand that is little known in higher income segments, but Mobicel is...

Prepare for life in 360 degrees

A flood of 360 degree cameras has arrived to feed the content machines of Facebook and...

Future of 3D is calling

Two 3D phones arriving on the market at the same time with similarly dazzling capabilities suggests...

Big in 2012

Smartphones, tablets, undersea cables, fibre networks and the Cloud will all contribute to a storm of...

The fridges are coming to get you

Smart homes have arrived, but consumers let in more than they think, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.

App in the RSA

The latest download statistics from the Vodacom App Store reveal much about The South African mobile...

The Kenyan woman who is using tech to change farming

A young woman with a burning vision to transform the outlook for small farmers in Africa...

A taste of (fast) things to come

‚When are we going to get decent broadband?‚ is the connectivity question ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK hears most...

The cloudy secret to scaling up

The secret to the rapid growth of the eGranary farming platform lies in its underlying technology,...

Online retail gets real

After decades of experience in selling online, retailers still seek out the secret of reaching the...

The Irish are coming!

The Web 2.0 Summit in Dublin was notable for its speaking line-up, but the real surprise...

The year of reinvention

Five of the world’s great hi-tech brands ‚ Nokia, Sony, Ericsson, Huawei and HP ‚ made...

Merc joins the battery push

A new interactive sculpture in Cape Town symbolises rapid advances in car technology, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.

Electric is to vehicles what digital is to business

The launch of the second generation Nissan Leaf electric vehicle signals the auto equivalent of digitalising...

Samsung wants to be back without a bang

Samsung this week released its findings on the exploding batteries of the Note 7, but is...