Aug 20, 2019
Smart city frameworks, the Internet of Things (IoT) and low earth orbit satellite systems are all set to have a transformational impact on African businesses over the next two years. This is according to the 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa. “IT...
Aug 20, 2019
The South African productivity puzzle is far from solved, with a massive amount of time and billions of rands still being lost to administrative tasks. This is among the findings from Sage’s second annual Productivity Tracker, which investigates the amount of...
Aug 20, 2019
Rand Merchant Investment Holding (RMI), through AlphaCode, has awarded entrepreneurial packages valued at R16-million to eight of South Africa’s most promising financial services startups. All businesses are less than two years old and at least 51% owned by...
Aug 20, 2019
A team of scientists from the University of Johannesburg (UJ), collaborating across theoretical and experimental physics and computer science, have developed and trained a new machine learning (ML) technique to predict and diagnose diseases such as lung cancer,...
Aug 20, 2019
The use of technology is crucial for financial services organisations with ambitions of prevailing in a highly contested market. This is the word from Barry Vorster, lead: HR technology and culture at PwC, who points out that sustainable productivity improvement in...
Aug 20, 2019
Kaspersky researchers detected 16,017 new ransomware modifications in the second quarter of 2019 – including ones belonging to eight new malware families. This is more than double the number of new samples detected a year ago, in Q2 2018 (7 620). The Kaspersky...
