Smart wristwear to fuel wearables market

Smart wristwear to fuel wearables market

A growing list of vendors, a proliferation of devices, experiences, and price points, and steady consumer adoption will fuel growth in the worldwide market for wearable devices. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device...
Medical applications lead 3D printing advances

Medical applications lead 3D printing advances

Gartner reports 3D printing (3DP) technology has progressed rapidly in recent years, and that medical applications are leading to some of the most significant deployments of 3DP technology. Gartner’s 2015 Hype Cycle for 3D Printing reveals that 3DP of medical...
Game changing in the African Ethernet space

Game changing in the African Ethernet space

In many ways, Africa can be seen as the Wild West of network services, though not so much an outpost as a boomtown, writes Ben Maddison, co-founder and director of Workonline Communications. Large global operators have woken up to the fact that this continent is the...
Ask the right questions when moving from copper

Ask the right questions when moving from copper

South Africa boasts some pretty impressive metrics when it comes to the adoption of cutting-edge ICT, writes Peter M’Crystal, sales director of Otel Telecoms. From being a late starter with television in 1976, and then only having a paltry 4-million landlines by...