Bosses mistrust people who work remotely

Although 35% of employers trust their staff fully while working remotely only 19% say productivity decreased since they transitioned to remote working. This is one of the paradoxes found in research conducted for Ricoh by Opinion Matters who polled 1 500 European...

Study reveals factors behind weak civil society

There are several deficiencies in the current design of regulatory frameworks for the civil society sector. This is one of the finding from a study commissioned by the National Development Agency (NDA) to analyse the current legislative, policy and regulatory...

Strong growth expected for managed edge services

Managed edge services promises to be a high-growth market as enterprises look to low-latency edge services to address process efficiencies, support new consumer applications, comply with data sovereignty, and deal with security threats. According to a new forecast...

Covid drives digital wallet uptake

The adoption of digital wallets in the Middle East and Africa has been growing steadily over the last number of years and this has been accelerated as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. With merchants now prioritising online and in-store payments, there is now an...
IBM unveils on-chip accelerated AI processor

IBM unveils on-chip accelerated AI processor

IBM has unveiled details of the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in realtime. Announced at the annual Hot Chips conference, Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains...