Gaming monsters coming for you

As eSports takes off professionally and gaming becomes more serious for young and old, new machines...

Point-and-click theatre

Recent reports in Gadget hinted at a revolutionary new approach to marketing and selling theatre in...

Read this article or I kill a tree

E-books and e-readers have come to save the world, or so they say. For those thinking...

No, you can’t have your jetpack now

Why don’t science fiction visions of the future come true? Why haven’t the great technology predictions...

SA winner in Tour de France

When South African-educated Chris Froome won his fourth Tour de France cycle race on Sunday, it...

The Smartphone reborn at CES?

HTC Thunderbolt. LG Revolution. Samsung LTE. New 4G devices from LG, HTC and Samsung attempted to...

Local gaming heroes rAge on

The annual rAge gaming expo was a feast of the latest in global gaming, but the...

The quest for Inbox Zero

One of the greatest obstacles to productivity, communications and the secret of happiness is an e-mail...

Paywalls vs the digital tsunami

Today the New York Times retreats behind a paywall ‚ requiring regular readers to subscribe if...

Automated cars still ancestor to autonomous

A tragedy involving an Tesla S car was as much a warning as a sign of...

Picture this: phones as good as cameras

The new generation of cellphones comes with so many lenses, they can pretend to be as...

Please start this revolution without me

The iPad 2 went on sale this past weekend, and will no doubt break records. But...

Hot new phones offer choice at the top

Three powerful new name-brand phones mean anyone in the market for a mid-to-high-end smartphone is spoiled...

BlackBerry refuses to go away

When Facebook announced earlier this year that it would end support for WhatsApp on BlackBerry phones,...

When the invisible is the most revealing

The standardised physical appearance of new devices showcased at the IFA expo in Berlin this week...

The future is cloudy

Cloud computing may sound like an intimidating concept, but most of use it every day without...

When will we stop calling them phones?

If you don’t remember when phones were only used to talk to people, you may wonder...

You don’t have to make excuses for your old tech

The next ten years will see the most rapid advances in the history of technology, but...

The incredibly disappearing gadgets

Remember when you bought software in a box off the shelf? Then came the Internet and...

Data and the stars

An ambitious star-mapping project highlights the growing importance of big data and the cloud, writes ARTHUR...