Innovation

Ericsson Innovation Awards for sub-Saharan Africa closes 30 October

Oct 20, 2015

The winning team will receive a cash prize of €9 000 (R135 220), with a second-place prize of €1 800 (R27 000) plus an Android tablet/phone, and a third prize of €1 200 (R18 000) plus an Android tablet/phone. Prizes will be awarded at @AHUBAfricaCom in November.

All change as insurance looks to transform

Sep 20, 2015

As businesses in all sectors grapple with how to digitalise to meet increasing competition, the insurance industry remains one of the least transformed – but the signs are already there that it needs to adapt or die. Kathy Gibson asks why … and how The insurance...

Reduce complexity with hyperconvergence

Sep 20, 2015

Move over convergence; IT is all about hyper-convergence nowadays. But what is hyper-convergence and why should you care? Kathy Gibson looked for some answers. The IT industry is one of massive change, with new technologies and products coming to market all the time....

In-car apps market set to boom

Sep 20, 2015

The top five categories that consumers identified as a favorite for use in their vehicles are, in order: navigation (53 percent), weather (40 percent), music (38 percent), news (33 percent) and social networking (29 percent).

Foldable displays take lion’s share of flexible display shipments

Sep 20, 2015

Foldable displays are leading to innovative new applications and revolutionising the flexible display market

4K bright spot in declining TV market

Sep 20, 2015

Global TV shipments declined 8%, year over year, to 48-million units in the second quarter (Q2) of 2015, after a year of quarterly year-over-year growth in 2014. This was the largest year-over-year decline in a quarter since Q2 2009, when worldwide demand slumped amid...

B2B firms aspire to ‘Amazon-like’ customer experience

Sep 20, 2015

While 8% of B2B eCommerce execs say they deliver a "better" customer experience than their direct B2B competitors, just 17% indicate that their company's customer experience is "better" than Amazon's.

Super size me: large screen mobile sees growth in midst of small screen surge

Sep 15, 2015

Bigger screens provide a compelling way for users to connect on everything from straight up phone calls to video chats and streaming movies—activities a near inch-and-a-half screen might be hard-pressed to do.

Smart wristwear to fuel wearables market

Sep 15, 2015

Smart wearables will quickly move from a smartphone accessory primarily focused on notifications to a more advanced wearable computer capable of doing more processing on its own.

Medical applications lead 3D printing advances

Sep 14, 2015

Technologies such as 3D scanning, 3D print creation software and 3D printing service bureaus are all maturing quickly

Game changing in the African Ethernet space

Aug 30, 2015

In many ways, Africa can be seen as the Wild West of network services, though not so much an outpost as a boomtown, writes Ben Maddison, co-founder and director of Workonline Communications. Large global operators have woken up to the fact that this continent is the...

Ask the right questions when moving from copper

Aug 30, 2015

South Africa boasts some pretty impressive metrics when it comes to the adoption of cutting-edge ICT, writes Peter M’Crystal, sales director of Otel Telecoms. From being a late starter with television in 1976, and then only having a paltry 4-million landlines by...

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