The ultimate killer app

What makes a gadget the most sought after on the market? Conventional wisdom says you have...

SA joins the dots for the Smart City

The concept of a smart city is a grand vision of an urban future, seemingly unattainable...

The small flaw in high-tech cars

High-tech cars may offer the ultimate in automated safety features, but that means little in the...

The future has landed

Air travel has become more and more tedious over the years as security steps up and...

Confession time in the quest for Inbox Zero

It’s like drug abuse, with similar implications for effectiveness, but the battle to triumph over email...

Vodacom makes smart push to become handset player

As mobile operators struggle to maintain revenue growth in a saturated market, Vodacom’s own branded phones...

Ban these gadgets!

Plato once said that new kinds of music are dangerous to the State. How much more...

Special edition S7 does justice to Batman

In the week that Samsung unveils the next generation of its market-leading Note phablet, another of...

Why Samsung is no longer Cinderella at the iPhone ball

Apple has reported a record sales slump, while Samsung’s latest phones win market approval. How did...

Take two tablets …

This year, 2011, is the great and glorious Year of the Tablet. So they say. But...

War on storage waste begins in Las Vegas

It’s one of the great ironies of technology that, as computer storage becomes cheaper, companies spend...

From bots to Slack, all change for financial software

At the annual conference of one of the world’s leading accounting software companies in Chicago this...

Social media inspires hip-hop king’s #Hashtag smartphone

An addiction to social media inspired the smartphone branded by South Africa’s leading hip hop artist,...

Sony aims to get ultra-smart

“Smart” is more than a buzzword for Sony, which is poised to roll out a dizzying...

Garmin navigates itself back to the future

Before the explosion of smartphone mapping apps, Garmin was synonymous with navigation. Now it is fighting...

The iPad is not the future, but what a great signpost

Few consumer technology products outside of the iPod and iPhone have inspired as much blind loyalty...

Apple goes back to its old future

Last week Apple went back to its old future, with a 4” iPhone that looks like...

Samsung’s next big thing: Internet of Bundles

The bundling of the new Samsung S7 phones with the Gear VR headset is not only...

Uncapped is the new black

As video-on-demand and fibre-to-the-home begins to switch on in South Africa, the public will begin to...

LG makes early running at Mobile World

LG is the surprise front-runner in new technology roll-outs at the annual Mobile World Congress in...