Mar 19, 2014
University of Cape Town researcher, Dr Rahul Jobanputra, says the alarming number of road traffic fatalities in South Africa moved him to focus his recent PhD study on alternative ways of making the country’s roads safer. His thesis, An Investigation into the...
Mar 17, 2014
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...
Mar 14, 2014
51% of healthcare executives predict that over the next three years technology platforms will have the biggest impact on their business models, however they are wary that in driving rapid change the biggest areas at risk are 1) technology itself and crucially 2)...
Mar 10, 2014
New research from NASA indicates that technology could help to identify sinkholes before they happen. New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near...
Mar 4, 2014
Standard Bank has seen the number of payments to mobile wallets in Kenya on behalf of its clients increase by 300% in 2013, with both Kenya and Nigeria leading other African nations in terms of the adoption of mobile payment technology. This is a growing trend that is...
