Search
Welcome
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
Not a subscriber? Subscribe here
Register Now
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
                       
Careers & Tenders
Newsletters
Subscribe
The Mail & Guardian
      SUBSCRIBE / Support independent journalism                   CAREERS & TENDERS / Visit careers.mg.co.za                   WHATSAPP? / Follow the M&G WhatsApp channel here            
Login / Register

LOGIN

  • News
    • Africa
    • Business
    • Editorial
    • Education
    • Health
    • Motoring
    • National
    • Sci-tech
    • Sport
    • World
  • Thought Leader
  • Politics
  • Green Guardian
  • Friday
  • Features
    • Buthelezi, the King’s Hand
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2023
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2012-2021
    • The Fiscal Cliff
  • Research World
    • Submissions
    • Papers
  • 200 Young South Africans
  • Events
    • 200 Young South Africans
    • Greening The Future
    • Power Of Women
      • 2024 Edition
    • Critical Thinking Forum
    • Youth Summit
    • Webinars
  • More..
    • Partners
    • Podcasts
    • Crossword
    • Digital Editions
    • Register
    • WhatsApp Channel
    • Login
    • Lost Password

           

Technology

Big Brother, please help us read more books
Article
/ 9 January 2014

Big Brother, please help us read more books

As technology makes book-reading a specialist activity, more should be done to keep literature at the heart of life.

By Philip Hensher
We are the future / wear the future
Article
/ 2 January 2014

We are the future / wear the future

After a lull in new devices, 2014 promises happy geeks plugging into radical technology.

By Alistair Fairweather
Technology helps find innovative solutions
Article
/ 22 November 2013

Technology helps find innovative solutions

The Multi-media Innovation Centre (MMIC) is an innovative multi-media interactive learning, demonstrating and planning platform for the public sector.

By Advertising Supplement
Enter the IT-Industry Recognition awards
Article
/ 21 October 2013

Enter the IT-Industry Recognition awards

The IT-Industry Recognition awards, which rewards good performance throughout the IT industry in the country, seeks to celebrate SA’s IT excellence.

By Staff Reporter
Thanks, we’ll reap the glory we sew
Article
/ 11 October 2013

Thanks, we’ll reap the glory we sew

Enough of the wretched gender bias that casts women’s technical savvy in a disdainful light.

By Staff Reporter
Huffington: How to be a successful young leader
Videos
/ 8 October 2013

Huffington: How to be a successful young leader

Media mogul Arianna Huffington says we need to break away from technology to be successful – and one day we’ll have gadgets to help us do that.

By Staff Reporter
Harper Reed: How we helped Obama win
Videos
/ 4 October 2013

Harper Reed: How we helped Obama win

Harper Reed, Obama’s 2012 campaign chief technology officer talks about the drive’s success, but says "tech can’t help you if your party sucks".

By Staff Reporter
Kenya: Where tech meets culture
Article
/ 16 August 2013

Kenya: Where tech meets culture

Kenya’s entrepreneurs are ­using technology to scale up their imaginative businesses, writes Gwen Ansell.

By Gwen Ansell
Google could face legal sanctions over privacy policies
Article
/ 6 July 2013

Google could face legal sanctions over privacy policies

European privacy watchdogs have threatened Google with legal action over 2012 policy which violates commitment to transparency.

By Charles Arthur
Kenyan farmers reap the benefits of technology
Africa
/ 22 May 2013

Kenyan farmers reap the benefits of technology

A number of apps and cellphone-based programmes are being developed to help small-scale Kenyan farmers increase their agricultural skills and yields.

By Staff Reporter
Mali gives away free domain in hopes of outside investment
Africa
/ 9 April 2013

Mali gives away free domain in hopes of outside investment

Mali has announced its little known .ML domain will be free from July, a move it hopes will put the country on the map.

By Guardian Reporter
No image available
Podcasts
/ 8 April 2013

M&G Newsroom: April 8 2013

The news that has everyone talking: All about the Central African Republic, the best and worst of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival and more.

By Staff Reporter
Lenovo set on leading in Africa PC market
Article
/ 27 March 2013

Lenovo set on leading in Africa PC market

Lenovo Africa’s general manager, Graham Braum, has recently met with government and private organisations from across Africa to talk business.

By Staff Reporter
Solar-everything will power your life
Article
/ 13 February 2013

Solar-everything will power your life

The breakneck speed of development in photovoltaic technology means that soon every surface will be generating energy.

By Sipho Kings
Is personal technology the rock ‘n roll of the 21st century?
Article
/ 28 January 2013

Is personal technology the rock ‘n roll of the 21st century?

Personal technology is now a fully fledged cultural force, and it will only become more powerful, writes Alistair Fairweather.

By Alistair Fairweather
Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
Article
/ 25 January 2013

Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph

With Knowledge Graph, Google has radical plans to transform the way we search the internet … again.

By Tim Adams
The most useful gadgets of 2012
Article
/ 24 December 2012

The most useful gadgets of 2012

Arthur Goldstuck chooses devices that can save your social, business and career life.

By Staff Reporter
Klarus LED flashlight reinvents the handheld torch
Article
/ 24 December 2012

Klarus LED flashlight reinvents the handheld torch

Two new LED flashlights from Chinese company Klarus prove that the torch is no longer merely a tube with batteries, writes Joel Dorfan.

By Joel Dorfan
Toyota tests cars that communicate with each other
Article
/ 12 November 2012

Toyota tests cars that communicate with each other

Toyota is testing smart-car technology that will minimise the risk of accidents by alerting drivers to pedestrians and other vehicles.

By Sapa Ap
The virtual cloud hangs over us
Article
/ 12 May 2012

The virtual cloud hangs over us

Technology was supposed to make things simpler. This was the famous promise of those laughable 1960s predictions about life in the 21st century.

By Oliver Burkeman
No image available
Article
/ 20 April 2012

Tech drives dialogue, dialogue drives social change

Technology has helped us transform our world for the better and has also allowed us to connect effortlessly over distances.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 12 August 2011

Chance to go full-steam ahead

New South African Science and Technology Train Initiative

By Ina Roos
No image available
Article
/ 1 November 2010

DBE’s ICT plans revealed

The DBE is aiming to utilise technology as a developmental tool for teacher education as well as integrating it into the school curriculum.

By Primarashni Gower
No image available
Article
/ 19 October 2010

Teacher geeks to gather in Cape Town

Hundreds of teachers, education leaders and tech experts will gather in Cape Town next week for the finals of the World Innovative Education Forum.

By Primarashni Gower
No image available
Article
/ 15 September 2010

Convention will highlight technology

This year’s Education Week Convention and Learning Expo will put the spotlight on technology as an innovative tool to enhance classroom teaching.

By Thabo Mohlala
Teaching for the future
Article
/ 10 September 2010

Teaching for the future

To equip children for the workplace in the 21st century, conventional teaching must give way to the use of technology.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 23 August 2010

Podcasts: Another view

In a developing society in which television viewers outnumbers internet users, broadcasting has several advantages that overcome

By Dylan Busa
No image available
Article
/ 28 June 2010

iPhone apps throwing light on bestsellers

Authors such as Iain Banks and Martina Cole are increasingly supplementing book releases with digital media apps full of bonus material.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 19 November 2008

Sars runner-up in global software award

The Sars has been awarded a silver medal in innovative technology at the annual Adobe Max Awards in North America.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 12 November 2008

Cellphone shopping makes wallets redundant in Japan

Japanese office worker Satoshi Tada pays for shopping, wins free food and gets store discounts all by waving his cellphone.

By Sachi Izumi
No image available
Article
/ 10 November 2008

Surprise scenarios ahead

Businesses are being urged to prepare for developments that could change their futures. John Carvel lists some of them.

By Staff Reporter
No image available
Article
/ 7 November 2008

Parties do it the Obama way

Local politicians have lauded Barack Obama’s savvy use of technology to build support — and, in some cases, are already emulating him.

By Staff Reporter
← Older posts
Newer posts →

MAIL & GUARDIAN

ABOUT

About
Contact
Advertise

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Subscribe
Newsletters

FOLLOW

WhatsApp Channel
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
LinkedIn
TikTok
Threads

FLAGSHIP EVENTS

200 Young South Africans
Power Of Women
Greening The Future

LEGAL & CORRECTIONS

Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy
Ethics & Social Media Policy

RESOURCES

Mail & Guardian Careers
Property for sale


Mail & Guardian

© 2025 The Mail & Guardian. All rights reserved.

  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
body::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 7px; } body::-webkit-scrollbar-track { border-radius: 10px; background: #f0f0f0; } body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { border-radius: 50px; background: #dfdbdb }