Predictive maintenance can lower utilities’ costs

African power utilities are evolving as they are unbundled into separate generation, transmission and distribution companies and as they come under growing pressure to service unserved communities as well as to support industrial growth. They need to find ways to...

Tech giants’ media control under scrutiny

The 2018 World Media Economic and Management Conference has kicked off in Cape Town, where the world’s leading scholars of media business and media management have gathered to discuss issues affecting the media industry. The global media summit comes at a time...
Uber unveils flying car strategy

Uber unveils flying car strategy

Uber hopes to have flying cars operating as soon as 2020. The company yesterday revealed its flying car prototype, capable of vertical takeoff and landing and able to fly between 1 000 and 2 000 feet above the ground. Although the vehicles are loosely based on...

The DNA traits that identify business leaders

Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Tech Trends launch – Today’s business leaders are digitally mature, and have certain traits embedded in their corporate DNA. Hans van Grieken, EMEA technology research and insights leader in Deloitte’s global CIO...

Technology trends powering digital success

Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Tech Trends launch – Change is the order of the day for companies that plan to win in the digital world. They can no longer have a single strategy, or pursue a single technology course. The CIO needs to re-engineer technology...

Bytes UK scoops R2,5bn NHS deal

Altron subsidiary Bytes UK has signed a R2,5-billion contract with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to roll out Windows 10 to all NHS computers. The five-year contract, worth £150-million (R2,5-billion), or £30-million (R510 million) per year, saw Bytes UK...