SMEs will drive Africa’s growth

SMEs will drive Africa’s growth

Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa in 2014 is expected to be slightly higher than that of 2013, at around 6%, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – and SMEs are the engine that will drive this growth. With more than 1-billion consumers on the...
SA to see huge mobile spike

SA to see huge mobile spike

Mobile data traffic in South Africa will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 53% in the next five years, and will reach an annual run rate of two Exabytes by 2018. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018,...
Self-driving car to transform work

Self-driving car to transform work

A self-driving car concept will transform the car into a fully connected office – and road journeys will no longer be dead-time away from work or home. Regus has partnered with Rinspeed to develop the concept car, the XchangE, which will be displayed at the Geneva...
Mystery of the Mars rock solved

Mystery of the Mars rock solved

Researchers have solved the mystery of the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, that was discovered on the Red Planet’s surface: it is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA’s Mars Exploration...
Video tracks devastating storm

Video tracks devastating storm

A new NASA video of NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery shows three days of movement of the massive winter storm that stretches from the southern US to the northeast. Visible and infrared imagery from NOAA’s GOES-East or GOES-13 satellite from 10 February to 12...
‘Primitive’ app methods must go

‘Primitive’ app methods must go

It’s not only the way applications are used that is outdated, but the industry needs to make fundamental changes in the way they are developed as well. That’s the word from SAP’s member of the executive board: products and innovation Dr Vishal Sikka, who describes...