From the editor’s desk: Local developments using solar power
26 June 2019, News
It’s always great to see local developers doing good work, and Dataweek always enjoys getting a chance to feature them. Sadly, people seldom share with us the interesting things they’re working on, whether ... |
From the editor’s desk: US-China trade war hits chip makers
29 May 2019, News
The escalating trade war between the US and China has the global economy on high alert, and unless things normalise soon it is going to have massive ramifications on many industries.
Following US president ... |
From the editor’s desk: The unseen role of component distributors
30 April 2019, News
FAEs play an essential role in bridging the engineering world where things are designed and made, and the business world where big decisions are taken and money changes hands. |
Load shedding’s toll on electronics manufacturing
27 March 2019, Barracuda Holdings, Phahama Systems Development, TraX Interconnect, Production Logix, This Week's Editor's Pick, News
Dataweek asked some of the local players how the week or so of load shedding in February this year affected them, as well as their forecasts for the future. |
From the editor’s desk: Engineering as art
27 March 2019, News
There is a common perception that engineers are all purely analytical creatures without a sense of creativity. In truth, I think this boils down to a general tendency to conflate the ideas of ‘creativity’ ... |
From the editor’s desk: Load shedding again – hopefully not shedloads of it
27 February 2019, News
I’m sure we’ve all experienced that feeling when something causes you to question the meaning of a commonly used word or phrase you’ve always taken for granted. The most recently this happened to me was ... |
From the editor’s desk: Mom and dad want to re-marry, but how is the kid doing?
30 January 2019, News
After a messy divorce presided over by former president Jacob Zuma in 2014, the departments of telecommunications and postal services (DTPS) and communications (DOC) are set to re-tie the knot this year. ... |
From the editor’s desk
EMP 2019 Electronics Manufacturing & Production Handbook, News
It’s certainly never a good strategy in business to work dumb, but the word ‘smart’ is applied to so many technologies nowadays and has become so nebulous that it can take on different meanings in different ... |
From the editor’s desk: Collateral jobs in the gig economy
14 November 2018, News
The rise of the so-called ‘gig economy’ – a labour market characterised by freelance work and short-term contracts – in combination with peer-to-peer and managed marketplaces, has had a profound impact ... |
From the editor’s desk: The ethics of AI
12 September 2018, News
This year, employees at Google have very publicly protested against the company’s involvement in projects they are concerned about. The first protest was over Project Maven, a programme developed for ... |
From the Editor's desk: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
15 August 2018, News
With South Africa celebrating Women’s Day on 9 August, and in fact the entire month as Women’s Month, I would like to take this opportunity to honour some of history’s most famous female engineers and ... |
From the editor’s desk: Jackson’s left hand rule
18 July 2018, News
It is strange how sometimes, after first noticing something you hadn’t noticed before, it seems to pop up all over the place. It has been dubbed the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, and it’s not so much a case ... |
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