Jun 21, 2013
Education is one of Africa’s greatest missed opportunities, plagued by mistakes and mismanagement, played out over generations from the very first post-colonial governments. But there is an opportunity to use technology to bridge the education gap. This according to...
Jun 20, 2013
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,...
Jun 19, 2013
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...
Jun 18, 2013
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...
Jun 14, 2013
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%...
Jun 13, 2013
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...
