Apr 10, 2014
With the global economy showing signs of a gradual recovery, worldwide IT spending is on track to total $3,8-trillion in 2014, a 3,2% increase from 2013 spending, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Globally, businesses are shaking off their malaise...
Apr 9, 2014
Dispelling the perception that South African executives are a “happy-go-lucky bunch”, Grant Thornton’s latest report on business leadership trends reveals that humour and modesty are considered by senior management to be the least important for good leadership. The...
Apr 8, 2014
Ricoh SA has launched an advertising campaign, based on political jockeying in the run up to the 2014 elections, that asks people to imagine change. The campaign features caricatures of Julius Malema and Helen Zille happily embracing. “The printer, copier, fax,...
Apr 7, 2014
Microsoft will end support for Windows XP tomorrow (8 April 2014). Leaving Windows XP unsupported will expose organisations to a growing risk as the number and severity of security exploits grow, and continued support from Microsoft will be costly. Michael Silver,...
Apr 4, 2014
Absa plans to become a fully digital financial services provider, updating existing systems and developing new technologies that it hopes will transform the way South Africans bank, and set it apart from its competitors. Absa has committed to actively investing in IT...
Apr 3, 2014
Microsoft has launched a new voice-activated personal digital assistant, Cortana, on Windows Phone 8.1. Unveiled by Joe Belfiore at the Microsoft Build developers’ conference yesterday, Cortana is being billed as the “world’s first truly personal digital assistant”,...
