Stay skeptical of Blockchain

Stay skeptical of Blockchain

While Blockchain technology is certainly worth investigating, CIOs should not be fooled into thinking it is the panacea for all the potential use cases currently under discussion. In fact, Forrester principal analyst Martha Bennett is advising a healthy dose of...
#Hack.Jozi winners solve real issues

#Hack.Jozi winners solve real issues

The winners of the 2016 #Hack.Jozi Challenge, announced by the City of Joburg and Wits University last night, will scale their businesses to create jobs and help beat real issues they identified in healthcare, education and local government administration in the City...
PC opportunity amid the gloom

PC opportunity amid the gloom

The worldwide PC market registered one of its lowest quarterly growth rates in the first quarter 2016, but Gartner thinks that several profit opportunities exist for PC vendors. “PCs are no longer the first or only devices users are choosing for internet...
Breakthrough in storage tech

Breakthrough in storage tech

For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated reliably storing three bits of data per cell using a relatively new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM). The current memory landscape spans from DRAM to hard disk drives to flash. But in...
Internet for poverty relief

Internet for poverty relief

Global inclusion in the Internet could bring 7% of the world’s population – 500-million people – above absolute poverty levels, and add $6,7-trillion to global economic output. This is according to a study by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy...
Aviation’s future is green …

Aviation’s future is green …

The future of aviation is bright … green. That was the environmentally-promising message delivered during the Green Aviation Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM), held recently at NASA Langley Research Centre. More than 100 attendees from government, industry and...