How do we use mobile devices?

How do we use mobile devices?

Mobile users are using their devices to replace radio, with mobile audio – particularly music – now contributing 12% of mobile data traffic in North America, and growing by 4% elsewhere. Meanwhile, mobile search per subscriber has increased 25% since February 2012,...
Different rewards for Gen Y workers

Different rewards for Gen Y workers

Research by the Department of Industrial Psychology at the North-West University has identified some of the factors that will not only attract Generation Y employees, but retain this talented and upwardly-mobile sector of the workforce. The survey highlighted five...
China boasts top supercomputer

China boasts top supercomputer

Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, is the world’s new number one system with a performance of 33,86 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. This is according to the 41st edition of the twice-yearlyTOP500 list of the...
Cloud migration still to happen

Cloud migration still to happen

Claims that most organisations have moved, or are moving, to cloud e-mail or cloud office systems are not consistent with research by Gartner. Gartner estimates that there are currently about 50-million enterprise users of cloud office systems, which represent only 8%...
Fragmented data raises risks

Fragmented data raises risks

The increasing tendency for employees to store their company information on cloud services and mobile devices does not only pose a cyber-security threat for businesses. Fragmentation of corporate data creates unnecessary cost, escalates risk and potentially undermines...
Firms missing info strategy

Firms missing info strategy

Fewer than 10% of today’s enterprises have a true information strategy. Research by Gartner has found that, just as business model thinking wasn’t mainstream or well-rehearsed a decade ago, management thinking at an “information as strategy” level is...