The future of the Internet

It has been 25 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Over the last two and a half decades, we have experienced tremendous changes in how we share, access and consume information across the world’s most powerful communication vehicle, says Nathaniel...

Technology trends yield to social trends

2014 will be far less about new technologies and much more about how existing technologies and trends are going to change the workplace and our social lives. That’s the word from Richard Firth, serial entrepreneur and CEO of MIP Holdings. “Every year sees...

Media players key for the connected home

Many of us have DVD and Blu-ray collections with our favourite movies and giant towering stacks of CDs. But let’s be honest, CDs and DVDs are fast becoming out-dated, and those piles of cases just sit gathering dust on our shelves, says Ruben Naicker, WD product...

A business guide to wearable technology

Since the rumours many months ago that a certain consumer electronics company was going to introduce a smart watch, people have in equal parts been sceptical and excited about the potential of wearable technology. But despite the consumer appeal, is there a business...

2014: the year of the wearables

Over the last few years wearable technology has gained huge momentum and suddenly the market has exploded. There seems no limit to the type of technology that designers are creating for our body parts, although some might not be available in South Africa for a while,...

Technology and business in 2014

Technology in 2014 will play a bigger part in business across industries irrespective of business size. It is becoming a business decision that enables operations to deliver against business strategies, irrespective of how mature or complex the organisations are, says...