How composable architecture can help e-commerce keep up on Black Friday

[Nick Durrant] Every year, Black Friday causes a massive spike in online transactions and online shopping activity. However, Amazon recently announced that they expect the upcoming holiday shopping season to be a little slower than usual.

8 software development trends improving the shopping experience

[Nick Durrant] Discovering emerging trends in e-commerce and software development will help improve the shopping experiences for consumers...

Can I upgrade Umbraco 8 to Umbraco 9? - Bluegrass Digital

[Nick Durrant] Many developers around the world are enthusiastically awaiting the release of Umbraco version 9, the flexible and easy-to-use CMS software. However, many users are concerned about what will happen to the current version 8...

Upgrading business with mobile app development

[Melissa Burns] Today there are over 4.6 billion mobile phone users worldwide, and over 2.6 billion of them have smartphones...

IBM launches blockchain starter pack for startups

[Tom Jackson] IBM has launched a blockchain starter pack designed to make it easier and more affordable for startups and developers to quickly begin building blockchain applications...

Kenya's iHub launches Health Meets Tech Application Challenge

[Tom Jackson] Kenyan incubator iHub will hold the Health Meets Tech Application Challenge in June, aimed at creating a platform for health workers to interact with developers from the tech ecosystem to develop innovative e-health solutions...

Instagram breaks third-party apps, services by throttling its API call limit

[Andy Walker] In what seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to its parent company's recent leaky-data woes, Instagram has restricted third-party developers from accessing its data pool...

Innovation policy hackathons to take place in Abuja, Lagos

[Tom Jackson] Entrepreneurs, investors, students and public sector officials are meeting in Lagos and Abuja next week for Nigeria's first public policy hackathon to brainstorm ways in which the regulatory environment for innovation and entrepreneurship can be improved across Nigeria.

What you need to start doing about user experience

[Ilse Burger] At the recent Gartner Symposium, I attended a session by Gartner Research Director, Magnus Revang on why user experience (UX) is hard for IT to deliver and what to do about it...

African game developers can enter $200k Microsoft challenge

[Tom Jackson] African game developers have been invited to enter Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play challenge, which is giving away $200,000 in prize money across four categories...

Are you making these WordPress blunders?

[Charles Mburugu] It is a fact that WordPress is the world's most popular content management system. More than 70 million websites run on this platform, with the number increasing on a daily basis...

Tips for maintaining your WordPress business site

[Charles Mburugu] Here are some of the ways you can maintain your WordPress business site to ensure optimal performance...

#DesignMonth: Chatting molluscs and mobile gaming with Thoopid

[Lauren Hartzenberg] In 2013 a cheeky garden mollusc on a quest for the perfect shell captured the hearts of mobile gamers young and old. His name was Snailboy...

CiTi to host R1m serious games challenge in CPT

[Tom Jackson] The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) is to host a serious games competition that will reward the best game for reimagining communities...

Harnessing behavioural psychology to enhance user experience

[Jason Ried] Over the past several years, behavioural psychology has attracted a great deal of interest outside of academic circles...

Evaluating the app-opportunity

[Lynette Hundermark] "There's an app for that" is one of the most common phrases exchanged amongst smartphone owners. From hailing a taxi...