Hospitality a prime cyber threat target

The hospitality industry offers many opportunities for hackers and other cyber criminals. Hotels are considered big targets for cyber criminals because they hold a host of personal and financial information on their guests, as well as other sensitive data, such as...

Is your database holding back modernisation?

Pre-relational database management systems (DBMSs) are aging technology, and the number of applications using these systems is declining. The market share for pre-relational DBMS products continues to decrease and Gartner predicts that, by 2020, prerelational DBMS...

Moscow, then Cape Town, top for e-government

Moscow the has been ranked as the top city as regards e-government services, followed by Cape Town and Tallinn (second, tie) and by London and Paris (fourth, tie). This is according to the United Nations (UN) E-Government survey study on e-government services across...

Connectivity makes fraud more pervasive

Fraud is one of the realities that many South Africans deal with on a daily basis. This was the theme of the recent South African Fraud Prevention Service’s (SAFPS) Fraud Summit, hosted in collaboration with the Insurance Crime Bureau. Over time, it has become...

Massive growth for cloud infrastructure services

Cloud infrastructure services spend reached $20-billion in Q2 2018, up 47% on the same quarter in 2017. According to Canalys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remained the largest provider, accounting for 31% of the total market. It grew 48% during the quarter. Microsoft...

Use AI to make cities smarter

Vienna’s residents and tourists do not have to rely on the kindness of strangers or scroll through long lists of website links to find parking, restrooms or other critical information. They can simply use WienBot, the Austrian city’s chatbot. Available via...