Solar car teams close to record

Solar car teams close to record

Teams from South Africa, The Netherlands, Japan and Hungary are within 500km of breaking the record for the longest distance covered in a solar car. The 4 630km record for the Sasol Solar Challenge was set in 2012 by Japanese team Tokai, and hasn’t been broken...
Banks caught in power struggle

Banks caught in power struggle

Facing tough challenges both from small fintech startups and from global digital giants, incumbent transaction-banking leaders must improve customer journeys, maximise security, minimise complexity, and add value beyond pure payments if they hope to survive and...
SAP bets €2bn on IoT

SAP bets €2bn on IoT

SAP is betting big on Internet of Things (IoT), and is planning to invest €2-billion over the next five years to accelerate innovation in its IoT solution portfolio, increase sales and marketing, scale service, support and co-innovation, and grow its ecosystem of...
All change in the vendor arena

All change in the vendor arena

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – IT vendors all seem to be driving different strategies in order to thrive in the new digitalisation world. But the jury is still out on whether the right move is to go big, as Dell has done; rationalise, as HP...
Building for a new civilisation

Building for a new civilisation

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – IT organisations today are participating in the building of a new digital platform with intelligence at the centre – and it enables businesses, can collapse industries and can fundamentally change...
Top award for SuperTeachers

Top award for SuperTeachers

Top teachers who are using technology to make a difference in literacy and numeracy in South Africa’s classrooms were recognised last night at the ISP SuperTeacher Awards, one of the highlights of the annual iWeek conference taking place this week in...