The hacker, the scrapheap, and the first Apollo computer

A Tshwane computer engineer has tracked down one of the great treasures of the computer age...

Big health is driving big data

If big data seems to be something remote, think again: it’s becoming a big part of...

Dust off the old stuff

We all know that new technology becomes obsolete almost the moment we take it off the...

Bend it, shape it, this is the future of smartphones

In San Francisco last week, Lenovo unveiled what may well be the future of smartphones, writes...

Dolby’s beautiful noise

The future of sound is here, as Dolby brings “sound objects” to the living room, writes...

The broadband discount

Why does your 21Mbps wireless broadband modem behave like a dial-up connection? Are the networks lying...

Meet Futurecop, the VR policeman of tomorrow

The policeman of tomorrow will probably not look like Robocop, but will share many of his...

LG catches the rising curve of OLED

It’s a decade since the future possibilities of OLED TV first became obvious, and now that...

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...