The reality of connected cars

The reality of connected cars

Connected car production is growing rapidly in both mature and emerging automobile markets. According to the latest forecast by Gartner, the production of new automobiles equipped with data connectivity, either through a built-in communications module or by a tether...
Africa surprises in its diversity

Africa surprises in its diversity

A new series of photographs show how quickly Africa is modernising, growing and even leading the way in new technology. Logistics provider Agility has announced the winners of the Africa 2016 Photo Competition, which this year drew more than 2 500 photographs from...
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...