Innovation

In-flight WiFi to reach more than 10 000 aircraft by 2020

Nov 24, 2015

Airlines must ensure that they address all types of risks, including that of a rogue passenger hacking into an aircraft’s avionic systems or servers, with potentially disastrous consequences

2016 will see ‘the death of the telephone’

Nov 18, 2015

The death of the telephone – WebRTC and other top comms-tech trends for 2016 Telephony has always been a function of a dedicated instrument – and later, a purpose-built console – from the crank phone to the cellphone and right through to the SIP softphone client on...

The future of the Internet of Things

Nov 11, 2015

Takeaways from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneur Symposium 2015, which covered smart buildings -- from home to office.

More than 4m consumer drones in the sky in 2015

Nov 10, 2015

A new study from Juniper Research has found that reduced component cost, increased competition and a greater number of use cases will together push the number of consumer drones shipped globally to more than 20 million per annum, up from less than 4-million this year....

Programmable economy could disrupt every facet of the global economy

Nov 9, 2015

The programmable economy, enabled by metacoin platforms and smart technologies, will support new forms of value exchange, new kinds of markets (including dynamically defined on-demand markets), and new kinds of economies such as the attention economy, the reputation economy, the on-demand economy and the resource optimization economy.

Smart watches to trump m-health wearables in $34b smart home market

Nov 4, 2015

The smart home market, projected to reach US$34 billion in 2020 is becoming the center of activity for multiple IoT ecosystems, including wearables.

TV channels go direct to tap into subscription online video revenue

Nov 4, 2015

The traditional linear channel will be around for a long time to come, but it will become increasingly marginalised by a plethora of online services, from catch-up TV to TV Everywhere, pay TV channels’ streaming offerings and YouTube multi-channel networks.

Hotspot 2.0 goes mainstream with 6m hotspots by 2020

Nov 4, 2015

Operators in countries like South Africa have launched the service with VoLTE side by side, aiming for a complete seamless voice experience and driving the usage to five-fold by next year.

Technology a game-changer in real estate

Nov 4, 2015

As is the case in almost every industry, the internet and technology in general have substantially changed the game for the South African residential real estate industry, with many if not most of the innovations seen globally in this space embraced by estate agencies...

Data is the new oil – so how are we protecting it?

Oct 28, 2015

What motivates the bad guys? Hackers are driven to our data for two, simultaneous reasons: they are after the “easy money”. “Easy”, in that right now there may be a hundred thousand potential ways of getting access to data, so why make it too hard? And “money”, in...

Multi-cloud sets data free from gravity

Oct 20, 2015

More and more medium-sized businesses (MSBs) discover the strategic value of their existing data. And in fact, data is widely regarded as a highly important business asset for the most diverse purposes. By Sven Hansen, senior systems engineer for Africa at NetApp...

CIOs need to embrace consumer technology

Oct 20, 2015

Every day we hear about new data breaches or data losses, with high profile cases bringing data security into the mainstream news agenda. By Sumash Singh, country manager: South Africa at Commvault There is no denying that the role of today’s CIO is increasingly...

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