Samsung unveils new 5G chipset

Samsung has unveiled a range of new chipsets that will be embedded into the company’s next-generation...

Facebook leads in VR headsets, but room for others

Gaming and fitness helped propel virtual reality headsets to 52.4% growth in the first quarter of...

SA roots of small sensors with big autonomous future

South African-founded LightWare LiDAR is taking autonomous vehicles to a new level with the world’s smallest,...

Now for the ‘Internet of Beer’

San Francisco-based technology firm Pubinno is set to launch a new product that self-cleans the draft...

Headphones can be killers on the road

Headphones can be a great way to listen to music or podcasts, helping us to enjoy...

Global search for cloud skills

By MPHO TSHAVHUNGWE, head of cloud services at Standard Bank Group, and DANNY BOTSI, people and...

Singapore scientists move mini-robots with magnetic fields

A team of scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed millimetre-sized robots that...

New tool can help beat Moore’s Law

For decades, improvements in computing power have followed a largely exponential path known as Moore’s Law....

VR market to grow 28% a year

The global virtual reality headset market grew strongly over the past 5 years, and the trajectory...

Samsung debuts world’s smallest mobile image sensor

Samsung Electronics has introduced the industry’s first 0.64-micrometer (μm)-pixel image sensor, the 50-megapixel (Mp) Samsung IsoCell...

Transsion leads Africa smartphone market

Samsung holds onto second spot, while Oppo enters smartphone top three, at expense of Huawei, and...

World’s smallest amplifier emerges – after 50 years

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have built the world’s smallest and best acoustic amplifier. And they...

Time to go off-grid with load-shedding gadgets

By MATHEW HALL, Product Director at Rectron

Future of storage lies at intersection of edge and cloud

By OSSAMA SAMADONI, senior sales director of MERAT from Dell Technologies

Dip ahead, but PCs set for healthy growth in Africa

A massive tablet deal in Egypt last year means a sales dip in the second quarter...

Small brands boost wearables

The appetite for wearable devices remained strong in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21) even as...

Acer unveils 3D laptop displays

The new ConceptD notebooks from Acer feature stereoscopic 3D displays, which enable creators to examine their...

HP leads fastest EMEA PC growth in 15 years, Samsung leads tablets

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of...

Printers boom in 1st quarter

The worldwide hardcopy peripherals, aka printers, market expanded for the third quarter in a row in...

Fibre vs satellite race looms

By ANGELA LOGOTHETIS, chief technology officer, Amdocs Open Network