Financial firms focus on digital

Financial firms focus on digital

Banking and investment services CIOs are increasingly convinced that their old business models and existing value propositions will not be sustainable in the future. This is among the findings from Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey, which gathered data from 3 160...
Take-home pay starts to slide

Take-home pay starts to slide

September’s real disposable take-home income declined for the first time in seven months on a year-on-year basis as a higher rate of inflation resulted in disposable salaries declining by over 1,3% during the period. This is according to the latest...
Mega-dino prints in Lesotho

Mega-dino prints in Lesotho

An international team of scientists has discovered evidence of an extremely large carnivorous dinosaur that roamed southern Africa 200-million years ago. At the outset of the Jurassic Period, about 200-million years ago, the largest carnivorous dinosaurs were...
IoT devices to hit 125bn

IoT devices to hit 125bn

The number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide will jump 12% on average annually, from nearly 27-billion in 2017 to 125-billion in 2030, according to new analysis from IHS Markit. In a new free ebook entitled “The Internet of Things: a...
Up close with Saturn’s rings

Up close with Saturn’s rings

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn’s atmosphere last month, destroying itself after a years’-long journey, first send some magnificent close-up pics of the giant planet back to earth. Saturn’s graceful lanes of orbiting ice...
New tech to drive IT spend

New tech to drive IT spend

Global information and communications technology (ICT) spending is set to accelerate over the next five years, thanks to the growth of new technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and cognitive computing and...