SA users are Facebook-mad

SA users are Facebook-mad

South Africans who use Facebook are deeply engaged with the service from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep at night, according to research carried out by Ipsos. Among those surveyed, 40% check Facebook before getting out of bed and 36% check Facebook just...
Is SA happy with mobile service?

Is SA happy with mobile service?

South African consumers’ satisfaction with mobile network service providers has remained unchanged from last year’s score, with consumers giving the mobile networks industry a satisfaction score of 76.7 out of 100. Their satisfaction with mobile telecoms retail stores...
IoT to reach $7tn

IoT to reach $7tn

While the interest and buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown steadily in recent years, the seemingly endless market promise continues to become reality. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), a transformation is underway that...
Age of the digital enterprise dawns

Age of the digital enterprise dawns

By Kathy Gibson – Companies no longer really have a choice about whether to become digital enterprises: the decision now is about when and how. “Digital is changing the world – how we work, learn, and behave,” says Mike Sutcliff, group chief executive at...
Translation in realtime looms

Translation in realtime looms

Near-realtime translation of a Skype call has been demonstrated, and the facility will be available as a downloadable app before the end of this year. Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice-president of Skype and Lync at Microsoft, writes in his corporate blog how he...
Towards a true self-driving car

Towards a true self-driving car

To accelerate innovation toward a future of autonomous vehicles, Intel has announced the availability of a family of hardware and software products – as well as additional investments and advanced technology research – aimed at helping the car evolve to...