Mar 12, 2020
World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has published an open letter warning that continued lack of web access and a growing crisis of online harms are fuelling discrimination and abuse against women and girls — and threatening global progress on...
Mar 11, 2020
Just 12% of more than 1 500 respondents believe their businesses are highly prepared for the impact of the novel coronavirus, while 26% believe that the virus will have little or no impact on their business. This is the shocking finding from a Gartner business...
Mar 10, 2020
South African employers report limited hiring intentions for the second quarter of 2020, according the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey. While 8% of employers forecast an increase in payrolls, 5% anticipate a decrease and 85% expect to make no changes....
Mar 9, 2020
Technology has been at the centre of scientific advances for decades. By Dave Turek, vice-president of technical computing at IBM Cognitive Systems Just 16 years ago, IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputer debuted as the first supercomputer to break the petascale barrier and...
Mar 6, 2020
The overall African mobile phone market grew 3,8% year on year (YoY) in Q4 2019, according to the latest figures from International Data Corporation (IDC). However, this growth is unlikely to be repeated over the following two quarters as the impact of the global...
Mar 5, 2020
More than half of companies (51%) around the world have no plans or protocols in place to combat a global emergency, such as the novel coronavirus covid-19, a study by global consultancy firm Mercer has shown. Didintle Kwape, associate consultant at Mercer, states:...
