Jul 11, 2017
SAP has come out strongly against reports today that it may have been involved in up to R100-million in kickbacks to Gupta-associated companies. Brett Parker, MD of SAP Africa, says: “The accusations made around the use and payment of sub-contractors are unfounded and...
Jul 10, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft doesn’t zoom past its next science target until New Year’s Day 2019, but the Kuiper Belt object, known as 2014 MU69, is already revealing surprises. Scientists have been sifting through data gathered from observing the...
Jul 7, 2017
Cognitive computing has nearly endless possibilities to improve business processes and functions. A full 73% of CEOs surveyed in a recent IBM study said it will play a key role in their organisations’ future and all executives in the study anticipate a 15%...
Jul 6, 2017
More than half of South African workers want their companies to put new technologies to work faster, so that they can be more efficient (53%); and they want their employers to use them and other resources more creatively (52%). Those are just two of the results from...
Jul 5, 2017
Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the gas giant’s iconic, 16 000-km storm. Taking place on 10 July, this will be humanity’s first up-close...
Jul 4, 2017
Despite economic pressures, investment by the South African retail sector into ICT seems to be holding steady. New analysis by Frost & Sullivan, titled “ICT Enterprise Spend in Retail, South Africa, Forecast to 2019”, shows that cloud-based services,...
