Feb 3, 2014
South Africa is a nation in “digital chaos”, with only sheer luck preventing more users from losing precious personal photos, videos and files. That’s the verdict of digital storage company WD, which has released the results of a study that found...
Jan 31, 2014
In future, when you drop a glass on the floor it will bend and become slightly deformed – but it won’t break. Professor François Barthelat and his team at McGill’s Department of Mechanical Engineering have successfully taken inspiration from the mechanics of natural...
Jan 30, 2014
Lenovo has once again surprised the industry, this time by acquiring the Motorola Mobility smartphone business from Google for close to $3-billion. With a strong PC business and a fast-growing smartphone business, this agreement will significantly strengthen Lenovo’s...
Jan 29, 2014
The year ahead has been tipped as the year of the enterprise as regards telecommunications services, with IDC’s top 10 predictions for the African telecoms services market in 2014. Spiwe Chireka, program manager: telecoms and media – Africa at IDC, points out that...
Jan 28, 2014
While nearly 87% of African IT leaders rank new technologies such as analytics, cloud computing, mobile and social media as being critical to business success, only 53% are pushing forward with adoption. These are among the findings of a new IBM study, Setting the...
Jan 27, 2014
A new global survey of Internet users reveals distinct regional findings and differing viewpoints between the developed and developing world. However, overwhelmingly the more than 10 000 people surveyed from 10 nations said they embrace personal technology,...
