Microdotting is catching on fast as a crime-fighting and theft prevention tool, with South Africa leading the way in terms of innovation and adoption.

Are your car and smart device starting to merge? There may be a lot of movement around the connected car, but they don't quite yet sync up in the real world.

Tech startup Tour 2.0 is opening new avenues for tourism in South Africa. It also hopes to open the minds of its foreign clients.

South African SMEs are embracing cloud computing, many of them starting with simpler online consumer services like Dropbox.

SMEs look to technology to improve efficiencies, save money and optimise processes.

SMEs look for business efficiencies from IT.

As South African companies move to adopt social business software, the title of 'chief collaboration officer' has entered the business lexicon.

After spending 20 years in the mobile phone industry, Megan Nicholas admits it was a culture shock to climb aboard Telkom.

In the past, CIOs were labelled `techies' and their responsibilities centred around matters affecting IT management. Nowadays, the ever-changing economic climate has forced businesses to keep pace with new tech and business realities.

The Techno Girl programme places promising schoolgirls in holiday job-shadowing arrangements, with the aim of inspiring them to pursue careers in maths, science, technology or engineering. Is it working? We'll know later this year.

In the movies, inventors are invariably men and usually a bit mad. In the real world of wireless communications, one of the most important inventors was a woman ... and a Hollywood actress.

The ITWeb enterprise mobility roundtable tried to establish if industry could offer sage advice for local businesses grappling with the issue.

Brainstorm asked three professionals at the forefront of technology to detail their experience of mobile applications and how they've changed their lives.