Lessons learnt from a telehealth deployment

A new IDC Health Insights study, “Empowering Patients and Improving Quality of Care: Telehealth and Telecare in Cornwall”, looks at how the Cornwall local council and National Health Services (NHS), together with their partner BT, sought to address the...

How retailers can protect against data breaches

During the recent Retail Congress Africa in Cape Town, MasterCard addressed various issues impacting retailers across Africa. A key topic discussed was the protection of data and what retailers can do to protect themselves from data breaches. Retailers have much to...

IT transforms service delivery for the healthcare sector

Access to quality healthcare is considered a basic human right, however, the South African healthcare sector is faced with numerous challenges that impede this essential service delivery. By Johann Joubert, sales manager: Africa at T-Systems South Africa. A shortage...

Big data revolution has arrived in sport

We are still in the early stages of a new era in sport: the era of big data. Most sports fans love statistics.  Goals, points, runs, saves. They are the tools of the trade. But it’s only recently that we started paying attention to advance data, or analytics,...

Gemalto launches multi-city ticketing solution

Gemalto is launching the next generation of its UpTeq Multi-Tenant NFC SIM, supporting multiple transport applications from different city networks by embedding the MIFARE4Mobile1 v2 application. This is the first globally interoperable solution on the market allowing...

Vodacom Business builds out healthcare solutions

Vodacom Business’ investment in mobile health solutions will see schools and clinics in the province, and around the country, get better access to healthcare services, like eye-sight and hearing screening. As the first network to provide an array of mobile...