Sep 28, 2017
Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague — SUSE is readying a multimodal operating system that will help CIOs bridge the growing gap between Mode 1 and Mode 2 IT operations. Business realities are driving cloud, software-defined everything and digital transformation....
Sep 27, 2017
Market consolidation is becoming more prevalent in the South African telecommunications market as operators look to build the capabilities required to position themselves as end-to-end ICT and digital service providers. Typical examples of this, says Frost &...
Sep 26, 2017
Cape Town uses about 300-million cubic metres of water annually, most of which comes from the six major reservoirs, but every year four times as much as that falls on the city as rain. Now civil engineer and PhD researcher John Okedi is studying ways in which this...
Sep 22, 2017
Blockchain is the enabling technology for what’s believed to be the world’s first crypto-metal exchange. MetalZoom.Energy is inviting South African miners to join it in disrupting the industry status quo. “Our crypto-metal exchange will provide a...
Sep 21, 2017
Africa is fast becoming the dumping ground for eWaste with a growing amount of computer equipment from western nations being found on toxic eWaste dumps throughout the continent, often being pulled apart by children as young as five. A computer monitor from a...
Sep 20, 2017
Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more pervasive — and it is starting to enable intelligent apps and things. This is among the trends that we can look forward to in 2018, according to Gartner’s...