Joshua Harvey, CEO at Specno. Cape Town-based digital innovation agency Specno has repositioned its business from digital agency services to a product consultancy model, citing changing market conditions in software development and growing demand for strategic delivery support. The company said the move is aimed at scale-up businesses facing major product, platform and architecture decisions,…
Through a new collaboration between GS1 Global, the global organisation behind the barcode, and Google, healthcare professionals and their patients can access medical product information with their smartphones. Paving the way for broader digital access to trusted medical product information, this new capability enables access via Google Lens. Image credit: GS1 The collaboration with Google’s…
In the heady last years of the 20th century, when inflation was low, interest rates were modest and employment levels high, the term “new economy” took on a whole new meaning. It was coined in the 1980s to describe the transition from a manufacturing industry to a new, technology- and service-based economy. Today, we might…
Apple is planning new iPads, MacBook Pros and more in the coming months Apple is planning an ambitious pipeline of new products for release during the first half of 2026, including a new low-end iPhone, multiple iPads and upgraded Macs. The line-up — due by spring of next year — includes updates to Apple’s entry-level…
