Small business money-saving myths

It’s World Savings Day on 31 October: small business owners already know the importance of building up a rainy-day fund for their small business; and also know the benefits of creating a savings culture among their team. By Pieter Bensch, executive...
UCT unveils world’s first bio-brick made using human urine

UCT unveils world’s first bio-brick made using human urine

The world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine signals an innovative paradigm shift in waste recovery. The brick is the brainchild of University of Cape Town (UCT) master’s student in civil engineering Suzanne Lambert. Dr Dyllon Randall,...

SA at the forefront of tech adoption

South African companies are among the fastest adopters of new technology in the world. This is one of the findings of a survey by fleet management provider TomTom Telematics, which revealed that 66% of companies across the UK and Europe are early adopters, whereas 82%...

AWS to open SA data centres

Amazon Web Services has formally announced it will open an infrastructure region in South Africa in the first half of 2020. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) region will consist of three availability zones. Currently, AWS provides 55 availability zones across 19...

Network nirvana is about openness, says Nokia

In tomorrow’s ultra-connected world everyone and everything will require their own gigabit to support both new ultra-broadband services. This is the word from Nokia’s president of fixed networks Federico GuillĂ©n, speaking during a keynote conference...

IoT set to drive ambient commerce

Ambient commerce is an important use case for the Internet of Things (IoT) and promises to be a game changing retail technology. According to the latest report from GlobalData’s Thematic Research Team, Ambient Commerce – which combines technology with the...