Dec 3, 2018
South Africa’s banking sector is increasingly moving towards a ‘marketplace without boundaries’, shaped by the fast-approaching entry of new digital players challenging the status quo in the market, and driving unprecedented levels of innovation. In...
Dec 3, 2018
A massive 500-million people have been compromised in one of the world’s biggest data breaches to date. Marriott has confirmed a data security incident involving the Starwood guest reservation database, with investigations determining that there was unauthorised...
Dec 3, 2018
In the third quarter of 2018, Chinese brands Huawei and Xiaomi, helped drive global smartphone sales, according to Gartner. Overall, sales of smartphones to end users grew 1,4%in the third quarter of 2018 to reach 389-million units. “If we had taken both Huawei...
Dec 3, 2018
An additional 100MW of new solar power has been added to the grid, as the Karoshoek Solar One project went live in Upington, Northern Cape, on Friday (30 November). Karoshoek is a concentrated solar project harvesting the sun’s energy through a series of concave...
Dec 3, 2018
Apple is no longer the US’s most valuable company: that title has been scooped by Microsoft. By the close of trading on Friday (30 November), Microsoft’s shares were trading at $110.89, giving it market capitalisation of $851,2-billion. Meanwhile, Apple...
Dec 3, 2018
Cloud adoption is in full swing, with the latest IDG data showing that 73% of enterprises have at least one application, or a portion of their computing infrastructure, already in the cloud. But apparently that’s not enough – because the data also shows...
