Staying in touch while rowing across the Atlantic …

Staying in touch while rowing across the Atlantic …

A brother and sister team taking part in a 3 000-mile race across the Atlantic Ocean are using cloud-based technologies to stay in touch. Despite being hundreds of miles from land, Anna and Cameron McLean use Microsoft Teams tool to contact loved ones, and receive...

AI, data visualisation key for digital transformation

There is strong demand across industries and markets to implement advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and data visualisation to make sense of vast data streams in realtime, with 75% of respondents in a recent survey aimed at prioritiring...

Biometrics enables payments without connectivity

Low connectivity across Africa has historically been an issue for paying social grants leaving the poorest of the poor even more vulnerable in deep rural areas. Technology from Paycode is overcoming this barrier, working in places where there is no phone or internet...

Smart device shipments to exceed 3bn in 2023

Worldwide, smart devices shipments are expected to reach 3-billion in 2023, according to Canalys. These include smartphones, desktop PCs, notebooks, tablets, wearable bands, smart speakers and smart personal audio devices. This figure represents an impressive...

Analytics shown to improve sales ROI

Forty-two percent of sales leaders rate their sales analytics return on investment (ROI) as significantly higher than expected, according to a sales operations survey by Gartner. This is the case no matter where sales analytics is located within the organisation...

SA’s Internet is slow, but proving resilient

News that a repair ship left Cape Town harbour on 23 January to repair the SAT-3 and WACS submarine cables is welcome news for local Internet users coping with slow web speeds since both telecoms cables were severed the previous week. The cables provide international...