Jan 22, 2014
NASA’s Curiosity rover has pictured a rock on the Mars surface – on a piece of ground where a previous photograph showed nothing. Before-and-after pair of images of the same patch of ground in front of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity 13 days apart...
Jan 21, 2014
“Dull and old” economies will have their strongest performing year since 2010 and will drive the global recovery in 2014, according to Dr Nariman Behravesh, chief economist of information and analytics firm IHS. Ahead of the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos,...
Jan 20, 2014
For the first time, a cyber-attack has been documented where smart devices, such as connected cars, routers and even refrigerators, were hacked to launch the attack. Security as a service provider Proofpoint has uncovered what may be the first proven Internet of...
Jan 17, 2014
The top IT service providers in South Africa are in a battle for dominance as the competitive landscape heats up in line with the continuing maturation of the South African market. Referencing its Competitive Profiles and Analysis of Leading IT Services Players in...
Jan 16, 2014
Digitalisation, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning – but most CIOs do not feel prepared to cope with it. A global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programmes showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital...
Jan 15, 2014
Mobile point of sale (MPOS) payments company, Emerge Mobile, is the first South African organisation to achieve Payments Council International Payment Terminal Security (PCI-PTS), and Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) Level 1 and 2 certifications for its MPOS payment...