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Samsung SA breaks selfie world record
Samsung Electronics South Africa has successfully broken the Guinness World Record for the most contributions to an online album of self-portrait photographs (selfies) in 24 hours. The record-breaking number of selfies was an astounding 12 598, as verified by Guinness...
Canon enters the 3D printing market
Canon Europe has made a foray into the 3D printer market through a distribution agreement with 3D Systems. Under the arrangement, Canon will market, sell and support 3D Systems’ advanced manufacturing 3D printers, including the ProJet 1200, 3500 series, 4500, 6000 and...
Blue Strata Trading tops innovation index
Blue Strata Trading, a premium import and working capital specialist, was named the winner of the Master’s Zenith category at this year’s Accenture Innovation Index Awards, which took place yesterday evening. The Accenture Innovation Index annually measures,...
African entrepreneurs in line to win $75k
The fifth Anzisha Prize application phase is now open, and the search is on to find Africa’s youngest, most exciting social and business entrepreneurs under 22 years of age.Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with over 600-million people under the age of 25. The...
Impact of Samsung’s mobile payments play
Samsung’s entry into the mobile payments market poses more challenges to Google than to Apple. This is according to Gilles Ubaghs, senior analyst: financial services technology at Ovum, who offers the following analysis: “Since being established in 2012, LoopPay has...
Advanced analytics, telecoms a powerful duo
Telecommunications and advanced analytics are a symbiotic duo that can help fast track African development and revolutionise business, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager at LGR Telecommunications. Advanced analytics, growing off a foundation of...
Livescribe releases Echo Desktop
Leading smartpen manufacturer Livescribe has announced the release of Echo Desktop, an update to their Livescribe Desktop software for managing notes and pencasts created with the award-winning Echo smartpen. In addition, through a new partnership with Anoto and its...
How schools can deal with load-shedding
With South Africa’s energy security seriously compromised and a solution to the challenge of electricity shortages half a decade or more away, it is necessary for organisations of all kinds to consider how they can continue operations. The situation is no different...
One device to do it all
There can be no doubt that mobility is a trend that is growing, and is here to stay. From the proliferation of smartphones to the rise of the tablet and the evolution of ever more lightweight, portable and powerful notebooks and ultrabooks, portability and the ability...
Make your WM solution work for you
The ability to effectively manage labour and all the relevant data that goes into documenting employee activity is down to what solution a business has in place. Technology suppliers to the human capital management (HCM), workforce and HR markets believe that the...
Connecting people to the Internet of Things
As the Internet of Things evolves and becomes the Internet of Us, security expert Kaspersky Lab has teamed up with Swedish bio-hacking community BioNyfiken to uncover the realities of connecting our bodies to the Internet. Once confined to Hollywood blockbusters and Sci-Fi novels, in 2015, the number of humans upgraded by technological devices is increasing in number. BioNyfiken, a Sweden-based bio-hacking community, is leading the charge in normalising the chipping phenomenon and bringing it to the masses.
Top five apps dominate network traffic
Two-thirds of all app data traffic over mobile networks comes from the top five apps in each country, with video streaming and social networking dominating. These are among the findings of the Ericsson Mobility Report, which says that, in the countries illustrated in...
Gemalto concludes that SIMs not compromised
A news story on 19 February claimed that NSA and GCHQ documents were made public on Gemalto’s Web site, prompting Gemalto to conduct a thorough investigation into the alleged incident, as well as of its internal monitoring tools and their past records of attempts of...
Samsung SA breaks selfie world record
Samsung Electronics South Africa has successfully broken the Guinness World Record for the most contributions to an online album of self-portrait photographs (selfies) in 24 hours. The record-breaking number of selfies was an astounding 12 598, as verified by Guinness...
Canon enters the 3D printing market
Canon Europe has made a foray into the 3D printer market through a distribution agreement with 3D Systems. Under the arrangement, Canon will market, sell and support 3D Systems’ advanced manufacturing 3D printers, including the ProJet 1200, 3500 series, 4500, 6000 and...
Blue Strata Trading tops innovation index
Blue Strata Trading, a premium import and working capital specialist, was named the winner of the Master’s Zenith category at this year’s Accenture Innovation Index Awards, which took place yesterday evening. The Accenture Innovation Index annually measures,...
African entrepreneurs in line to win $75k
The fifth Anzisha Prize application phase is now open, and the search is on to find Africa’s youngest, most exciting social and business entrepreneurs under 22 years of age.Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with over 600-million people under the age of 25. The...
Impact of Samsung’s mobile payments play
Samsung’s entry into the mobile payments market poses more challenges to Google than to Apple. This is according to Gilles Ubaghs, senior analyst: financial services technology at Ovum, who offers the following analysis: “Since being established in 2012, LoopPay has...
Advanced analytics, telecoms a powerful duo
Telecommunications and advanced analytics are a symbiotic duo that can help fast track African development and revolutionise business, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager at LGR Telecommunications. Advanced analytics, growing off a foundation of...
Livescribe releases Echo Desktop
Leading smartpen manufacturer Livescribe has announced the release of Echo Desktop, an update to their Livescribe Desktop software for managing notes and pencasts created with the award-winning Echo smartpen. In addition, through a new partnership with Anoto and its...