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Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

Huawei successfully launched its All-Optical Intelligent home showcase on the sidelines of the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town. Powered by Huawei’s latest Fiber…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…

Technology and skills: AWS’s plan for Sub-Saharan Africa

AWS’s investments in Sub-Saharan Africa are reshaping the region’s digital landscape, laying the groundwork for innovation, and addressing critical gaps in technology adoption and…

Simplicity at scale: The role of leadership in agile transformation

Simplicity is often undervalued in leadership, but Jonathan Allen, Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, believes it is central to modernisation and agility. “Complexity…

Generative AI: A return to the early Internet’s dawn

In its infancy, the internet was a curiosity — a novel way to share ideas, often dismissed as little more than a platform for…

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the all-new Surface Pro and the all-new Surface Laptop to empower users in South Africa to unlock…

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor introduced its latest foldable device, the Honor Magic V3, at IFA in Berlin. It is expected to be available in the South African…

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Guinness World Record holder Bryan Berg, alongside Honor, will attempt to build the tallest house of cards in eight hours without using any glue….

CHARGE taking EVs off-grid in the North West

CHARGE has commissioned the first of its impressive off-grid EV charging stations in the North West. Located on the N12 between Klerksdorp and Wolmaransstad,…

eActros 300 and Zimi Charge creates EV win for Bakers

eActros 300 is an EV truck that can potentially move most of what South Africans need more efficiently. But how much cheaper is it…

Carlos Tavares exit doesn’t solve Stellantis issues

Carlos Tavares will have his most leisurely end-of-year break in years, but employees at the world’s fourth-largest car company probably won’t. The Portuguese-born, French-educated…

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Media24 outlines plans to close major print publications

Media24 has announced major restructuring plans, including the closure of five magazines and several newspapers. The company made the announcement on 7 July, with…

Artists.Clothing wants to bridge the gap between designers and merchants

The internet is a wonderful thing. Besides giving us the ability to watch Gangnam Style over a billion times, it allows creative ideas to…

The internet goes from free to fee

If only the internet had been invented by a businessman. It’s a common lament of internet publishers who are buckling and wheezing under the financial strain of running unprofitable websites

When the internet arrived, people screamed let’s make lots of money. This new, interactive medium had the ability to deliver content to audiences in innovative ways and make money at the same time. Content would suck readers in, went the theory, and communities would form around these content genres. E-commerce areas would then be built around relevant content and wham bam thank you Ram, your community interacts and you have dotcom dollars.

Dot.boom, dot.bomb, dot.reality

During dot.boom the geeks were cool. Takkies, jeans and T-shirts were to replace ties and sensible shoes in the corridors of power. Boardrooms were…