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Simon Dingle

The technology of speed

Formula 1 is the world’s fastest sport and behind its teams of drivers and cars are engineers, software developers and CIOs who face a highly demanding operating environment.

Pressing ahead

As the world of print publishing faces its most disruptive period yet, one South African startup hopes to redeﬁne digital workﬂows and save some papers along the way.

Made in SA

Jessica Hubbard

Social traction

Social media marketing is shaking things up. If the fundamentals of marketing haven’t changed, why is there so much confusion surrounding this new frontier?

Trends

Simon Dingle

The app era

Mobile applications have become everybody’s business. For South African companies wanting their own apps, there are several options to consider, starting with: do you really, really need one?

Trends

Simon Dingle

Easy money?

Virtual currency, you say? Made on the internet? Get real...

Trends

Simon Dingle

Information banking

If you’re archiving all your information in the cloud, you may as well put that data store to work. And if your information is being gathered in a communications system where it is accurately indexed, then the possibilities are endless.

Trends

Simon Dingle

Change the world with your computer

Distributed computing projects allow you to dominate your computer's idle time to worthy causes, from developing cures for AIDS and cancer to finding extraterrestrial intelligence.

Trends

Simon Dingle

Intelligent homes

It started with lights that turned on and off at the sound of a clap. Now home automation has become about building intelligence into your living spaces. But is it cost-effective yet?

Timeout

Simon Dingle

Hailing the singularity

A technologically-driven evolution of our species is around the corner, according to futurists in the camp of Ray Kurzweil. Our bodies are headed for redundancy (the bad kind) and things are about to get out of hand. Or are they?

Trends

Simon Dingle

The padded market

With two of the world’s largest annual technology events done and dusted for 2011, strong trends have emerged for the year. Brainstorm takes a look at the signals from the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress.

Reportback

Simon Dingle

A Roman in China

Lenovo’s new secret weapon prepares to reinvent the brand.

Face to Face

Simon Dingle

Shutters

A new era in photography has dawned, signalled by two strong trends that emerged last year.

Timeout

Simon Dingle

Zef by design

Die Antwoord are South Africa’s Arctic Monkeys when it comes to 21st-century music publishing. The ‘zef rave’ band took off online and didn’t rely on a record label for its marketing. So what lessons about online publishing can be learned from the rise of Die Antwoord?

Cover story

Simon Dingle