Future-proof your application strategy

A leading retail bank in India recently revamped its consumer application. Within three days, bank customers downloaded the app 100-million times. Unfortunately, the users began reporting errors in stock account details whenever they restarted the app. In the end, the...

New MD for Altron Arrow

Warren Mande has been appointed as MD of Altron Arrow, effective 1 March 2020. Mande was previously sales division executive at Altron Bytes Document Solutions. Both companies are subsidiaries of JSE-listed technology company Altron. Mande has worked for Xerox and...

Luno adds Ripple to its platform

South African cryptocurrency exchange Luno has added the ability for its customers to trade Ripple (XRP) on its platform. Ripple is the third-largest digital asset with a current market value of $12,5-billion. Luno’s 3,5-million customers across 40 countries can...

Xerox pushes ahead with HP takeover bid

Xerox is pursing its attempt to buy out HP Inc, despite HP adopting a shareholders rights plan meant to block a hostile takeover. Xerox has raised its offer for HP shares to $24.00, equating to about $34-billion in cash and Xerox stock. Xerox intends to launch a...
Data centres not up to meeting CIO needs

Data centres not up to meeting CIO needs

Just 29% of data centre decision-makers say their current facilities are meeting their needs, and just 6% say their data centres are updated ahead of their needs. These are among the findings included in a new report from Forbes Insights and Vertiv. “The Modern...

NASA wants your help in designing Venus rover

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under a grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, is running a public challenge to develop an obstacle avoidance sensor for a possible future Venus rover. The “Exploring Hell: Avoiding Obstacles on a...