IBM in strategic collaboration with AWS

IBM has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with plans to offer a broad array of its software catalogue as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on AWS. Building on IBM Software being available as-a-Service (aaS) on IBM Cloud, this...

Total private investment in AI more than doubled in 2021

A moneytransfers.com analysis of the sector places private investment in AI in 2021 at $93,5-billion – more than double what it was in 2020. The total amount of funding raised by venture capitalists (VCs) for AI startups has increased significantly since 2017....

All about NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2

NASA and Boeing are taking another major step on the path to regular human spaceflight to the International Space Station using American rockets to launch spacecraft from American soil with the second uncrewed test flight of a commercial crew spacecraft. NASA’s...

Smart traffic management will save 205m tons of CO2

A new study from Juniper Research has predicted that global savings in CO2 emissions from smart traffic management systems will be 205mmt (million metric tons) by 2027; a growth of 41%, up from just 145,7mmt in 2022. Reducing congestion through optimised traffic...

Supply constraints hurt hardcopy sales

Despite the continuing supply chain issues affecting the Western European hardcopy market, 1Q22 was a relatively good quarter for some, but still pretty bad for others. Widely publicised supply chain issues for hardware, toner, and ink have now been compounded in some...

SAP Code Week upskills 1,8m young learners

The 2021 edition of SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) saw more than 1,8-million young people between the ages of 8 and 16 equipped with 21st century learning and coding skills via 41 000 workshops held across the continent. Since 2020, there has been a 23% increase in youths...