3D printed shoes on the catwalk

This year’s Paris Fashion Week saw a most unusual piece of apparel gracing the catwalk – 12 pairs of 3D printed shoes featured in Iris van Herpen’s couture show “Wilderness Embodied”. In collaboration with Dutch designers Iris van Herpen and Rem Koolhaas, 3D printer...

Business confidence still down in June

The business climate continues to affect business confidence negatively, with the SACCI Business Confidence Index (BCI) remaining at a depressed level of 90.2 in June 2013, compared to 90.4 in May 2013. In June 2012 the BCI was 4.7 index points higher at 94.9 while...

Future networks will be 50% cheaper

Future networks will cost about half of what traditional networks cost today. They will require a smaller capital investment to roll out, and will be cheaper to operate because they’ll be easier to manage, provide unified access, and require less power and cooling....

loveLife offers counselling on Mxit

loveLife, South Africa’s largest national HIV prevention initiative, is now offering text-based counselling to South Africa’s youth on the mobile social network, Mxit.  This is part of loveLife’s strategy to expand access points and channels of support. The app went...

Sussman named as a top tech influencer

Integr8 joint-CEO Robert Sussman has been named as one of the Top 20 Tech Influencers by African Innovator Magazine, alongside names that include Elon Musk, a founder of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, and South African entrepreneur and founder of Thawte Consulting, Mark...

Mobile multimedia consumption takes off

The consumption of video on mobile devices for work-related purposes is on the rise, says Gartner, bringing organisations under increasing pressure to support and manage it. Gartner predicts that by 2015, at least 60% of information workers will interact with content...