Nissan starts engine for driverless future

At the Tokyo Motor Show this week, Nissan unveiled a concept car that combines manual and...

Biggest tech deal ever signals shifting landscape

When Dell agreed to pay a jaw-dropping $67-billion for EMC, it made official the belief that...

Can you take the weather with you?

The technology for forecasting the weather has been getting more and more local in recent years....

Meet the stars of Instagram

When Instagram was named South Africa’s fastest growing social network, a surprise was who emerged as...

Roadmap to the next big thing

In less than a decade, Tel Aviv has become the second biggest start-up hub in the...

LG unveils ‘remarkable’ new devices

The “other” Korean electronics giant, LG, came out with guns blazing last week, unveiling a family...

Travel tech Pt 2: War on bill shock

A major challenge when travelling internationally is to remain connected without breaking the bank. In the...

Tech gets in touch with human – and animal – needs

The annual IFA tech expo in Berlin delivered both the usual cut and paste slew of...

Samsung goes large – again

In the wake of declining market share, Samsung faced a big challenge for its latest product...

BlackBerry pursues Greatness: The sequel

BlackBerry may be yesterday’s smartphone brand but, at its annual Security Summit in New York, it...

Facebook’s flavour of the Moment

When a billion human beings logged onto Facebook last Monday, it was just one landmark in...

Travel tech Pt 1: The vital art of airport Wi-FI

The single biggest challenge when travelling internationally is to remain connected. In the first of a...

What SA can learn from Cannes ad festival

At this year’s Cannes Lions advertising festival, South Africa scored many accolades – but not a...

Fibrehoods vs Futurehoods: a battle won by consumers

As fibre-to-the-home rolls out in earnest across suburban South Africa, the army with the most weapons...

Asus transforms the Transformers

ASUS was under pressure to deliver at this year’s Computex expo in Taiwan, and responded by...

E-commerce is broken – but fixable

Thanks to poor online presence, e-tailing in South Africa has yet to make a dent in...

How to predict the future

Forecasting the future is about people, not technology, ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK discovers on a visit to the...

The bright secret of battery life

On most smartphones in active use, batteries last little more than half a day. But there...

IBM aims AI at Africa

Artificial intelligence is seen as an advanced and dangerous technology, but IBM is showing how it...

QR Codes invading – even if you don’t know it

Those strange little square barcodes now popping up everywhere represent a quiet rebirth of QR Codes,...