I found myself in the bizarre situation last weekend of defending Eskom CEO André de Ruyter. “Give him a chance,”…
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Last month Apple dropped a bombshell on the tech world when it announced it was ditching Intel’s chips in favour…
Fifty-six billion dollars. That’s what Facebook’s share price lost on Friday after news that consumer giant Unilever would pull its…
We found it eventually in a tub of Lego. It was one of the many very minor crises of the…
As hard as it seems to overwhelmed the exciting first private launch of humans from Earth and the successful docking with the International Space Station, there was actually a bigger story in tech in the last week.
Since the lockdown started in SA three weeks ago, yoga teacher Shasta Jordan’s online streamed classes have grown by a third. They are relatively small numbers, but it demonstrates the shift towards streaming in this sudden onset age of self-isolation.
The government is tracking your cellphone, and it’s happening in many parts of the world. Instead of being horrified at…
Every day for the last three mornings my wife – an M&A lawyer – has logged into that video-calling service…
You’ve probably never heard of Larry Tesler, but every time you cut-n-paste on your computer it’s because of him.
The traditional first column of the year is usually a prediction of the events and trends to expect this year. I’ll give it to you in a sentence, then focus on the unfortunate reality in South Africa where the tech we need to focus on is somewhat more prosaic but infinitely necessary: solar.