Workshop17 aims to drive innovation

Aug 26, 2015

The V&A Waterfront’s Workshop17 was opened yesterday, offering a next generation, multi-use innovation hub designed to showcase and enable solutions to South African and African opportunities. Workshop17 was born of the desire to support start-ups and...

5G will drive autonomous vehicles

Jul 22, 2015

The world will soon see 5G emerge as a blend of pre-existing technologies such as 2G, 3G, 4G and WiFi to allow higher network coverage, availability and density. With its key differentiator being greater connectivity, 5G will act as an enabler for autonomous vehicles, machine-to-machine and machine-to-infrastructure services, and the Internet of Things. It will also penetrate the over-the-air (OTA) updates space as level 3 or level 4 automation requires a massive amount of data processing to occur in realtime.

How the IoT could drive revenue

Nov 10, 2014

While almost everyone agrees that the Internet of Things (IoT) is poised for explosive growth and represents boundless opportunities – billions of connected things driving trillions in revenue – understanding where the revenue opportunities lie across different...
Internet to drive African spending

Internet to drive African spending

Sep 19, 2014

Increased Internet access will generate more consumer spend than any other media product or service in the next five years in the South African entertainment and media industry, according to a report issued by PwC. South Africa’s entertainment and media market is...

Local economy lacks growth driver

Jul 30, 2014

Although slow, global economic growth is expected to improve through to 2015 – but South Africa lags behind this trend as it lacks a significant growth driver. This is according to Rian le Roux, chief economist at Old Mutual Investment Group, who says that...