Turning smartphones into mobile 3D scanners, Microsoft's Research division has just detailed its MobileFusion project. FULL STORY >

Gauteng-based Book Express and Cape Town-based Research Unit report that they benefitted from better brand awareness since winning the 702/CapeTalk Small Business Awards with Sage One in 2014 FULL STORY >

A new far sighted report from Juniper Research forecasts a healthy adoption for 5G, with service revenues set to exceed $65 billion by 2025, compared to just $100 million during its first year of commercial services in 2020 FULL STORY >

New data from Juniper Research has shown that mobile and online messaging traffic will reach 160 trillion per annum by 2019, up from 94.2 trillion this year. FULL STORY >

451 Research has determined that cellular Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) connections will increase nearly fourfold globally from 252 million in 2014 to 908 million in 2019. FULL STORY >

IDTechEx Research has analysed and forecasted the development of the thermal interface materials market for the next ten years. FULL STORY >

This week's Geek News merges the past and future, with Google's Year in Search detailed, an Aston Martin James Bond retrospective and new trailer for Mad Max: Fury Road debuting. FULL STORY >

Long gone are the days where a simple anti-virus was all you needed to keep your company protected. Luckily, anti-virus software vendors are taking the fight against cybercrime seriously. Gavin Smith looks closer. FULL STORY >

Columinate has released the results of its first-ever online shopping ‘SITEisfaction’ Survey report for South Africa, identifying local consumers tendency to use online retailers for luxury purchases over essential items. FULL STORY >

Google has announced its annual Year End Zeitgeist, and with it, the most popular searches that were made throughout the year, both locally and globally. FULL STORY >

Strategy Analytics sees a great potential for growth in the connected TV device market over the next few years. FULL STORY >

IDC asserts that tablet market growth will be slowing down during the next few years thanks to the growth of phablets and tablet saturation within developed markets. FULL STORY >

IDC finds that worldwide smartphone shipments are on pace to grow by nearly 40% in 2013, whilst the average selling prices of smartphones have declined more than 12%. FULL STORY >

According to Canalys, Android-powered tablets will account for 50% of the worldwide device (desktop PC, notebook PC, and tablets) market in 2014. FULL STORY >

ABI Research sees Android taking off in the enterprise segment of the mobile phone market. FULL STORY >