Oct 14, 2020
Mark Davison reports – Following months of speculation in the IT channel, South Africa’s largest distribution group, Alviva, has confirmed that it is in negotiations to acquire the country’s second biggest distributor by revenue, Tarsus Technology...
Oct 13, 2020
Kathy Gibson is at Fujitsu ActivateNow – Artificial intelligence is becoming pervasive in many industries, opening up the question of the ethical use of the technology. “With the global prevalance of AI today, and its ubiquitous role in business, trust has...
Oct 12, 2020
Models based in part on a method NASA has used to track and count wild salmon in Nevada can now be used by governments and humanitarian organisations to more accurately estimate populations and allocate aid to remote regions of the world. In hard-to-reach areas where...
Oct 9, 2020
Actual market performance has been stronger than suggested by survey and market indicators, due largely to cloud and remote work support. Service provider investments to meet demand for cloud and digital services are stable compared to other sectors and remote...
Oct 8, 2020
The sources of South Africa’s dust emissions could pose a threat to food security. A new paper in the Aeolian Research journal titled “South Africa’s agricultural dust sources and events from MSG SEVIRI” points to windborne dust from large tracts of northern Free...
Oct 7, 2020
When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long. Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status...