Mustek now an Apple B2B partner

Leading local distributor, Mustek, has officially been appointed as an Apple B2B Partner for South Africa. The company says that the new appointment is in line with its business strategy of expanding its product and service offering to the market. “An additional...

Healthcare to top cloud spending

Industry cloud spending across four major industry groups (finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and the public sector) will total $22.5-billion globally in 2018, according to a new Worldwide Semiannual Industry Cloud Tracker from IDC. Of the four industry groups,...

Third-party CMPs set for strong growth

According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of devices managed on third-party connectivity management platforms (CMPs) will grow at a CAGR of 30.3% from 120-million in 2017 to reach 440-million by 2022. This accounted for...

Major banks in blockchain test

Practical tests involving the South African Reserve Bank, ABSA, Standard Bank, Nedbank, FirstRand, Investec, Capitec and Discovery Bank, driven by technical partner ConsenSys, to determine how the Rand can be tokenised and how a national payments system can be better...

AI research centre for Africa

Google is to open a new artificial intelligence (AI) research centre in Africa. The centre, which will be based in Accra, Ghana, will bring together top machine learning researchers and engineers and will be dedicated to AI research and its applications....
New coal power will cost SA billions

New coal power will cost SA billions

A study by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Energy Research Centre (ERC) has revealed that newly built coal power plants will add billions to South Africa’s power bill over the course of their lifetime, and force cheaper and cleaner renewable-energy...