Being useful is important. We define all innovation by its use – if it doesn’t have a purpose, then what good is it? Whenever I think of this, I can’t help but recall a scene from Payback, the slick film noir Mel Gibson
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The Internet of things (IoT) is counted among emerging technologies that promise to transform the South African market. While the opportunity for IoT is young in South Africa, its potential influence is far-reaching. For example, in the mining industry
People forget that Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko left Vodacom in 2012 under rather strange circumstances. I won’t bore you with the details. But what he has achieved at Telkom since his appointment in April 2013 has
It has been clear for some time that all is not well with the South African consumer. Or, indeed, the economy. Government spending has all but frozen and consumer spending is not going to paper
So, government is considering merging Broadband Infraco and Sentech. This makes little sense and suggests the ANC is so blinded by its ideological opposition to privatisation that it won’t make decisions that are patently in
SAP, the giant German maker of enterprise software, has found itself ensnared in a scandal involving the Guptas that risks spiralling out of its control. If it believes it is innocent of the serious allegations levelled against it
Analysts argue that the influx of innovative new financial technology companies into the African market will challenge banks and erode their profit margins. Accenture estimates that over one-third of mainstream financial
Africa vs Poland. In Africa’s corner, we’ve got the insane beauty of Kenya’s Masai Mara, the rust-red dunes of Namibia’s Sossusvlei and a mountain in South Africa so lovely we named it after a bit of furniture. Warsaw is probably also
The last thing you’re thinking about when putting your feet up on holiday is that you may be enjoying a break as a result of something as disparate to travel as data analytics, but, increasingly, that’s the case. Behind the scenes, in tourism
It’s surprising that the country’s major mobile operators haven’t trumpeted the death of R2/MB charges for out-of-bundle data. That pricing – a staple of the industry since Vodacom’s launch of 3G services in 2004 – has practically disappeared