IBM, MTN use IoT to protect rhinos

IBM, MTN, Wageningen University (WU) in the Netherlands and Prodapt, are harnessing IBM Internet of Things (IoT) technology as part of the MTN Connected Wildlife Solution. The solution will help predict threats and combat the poaching of endangered rhinos at...

Modest growth for EMEA printers

Unit shipments of printer hardware to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) continued to improve in Q2 2017 and registered an increase of 4% year-on-year compared to a decline of 3% in Q2 2016, according to analysts Context. The company adds that while there was...

Strydom wins SA’s first Raspberry Pi Jam

Willie Strydom has won the prize for the most innovative build at the first ever Raspberry Pi Jam to be hosted in South Africa with a project designed to consolidate various home automation applications into a single user interface that can be accessed from an app on...

Nedbank opens SA’s first solar branch

Nedbank has launched South Africa’s first fully solar-powered branch in Mncwasa, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. In what is a first-to-market in the financial sector, the Nedbank solar-powered branch is aimed at providing convenient banking solutions to a...
How to survive the digital trough

How to survive the digital trough

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — Digital dexterity, based on network effect technologies running on a digital platform will help organisations make it through the looming trough of depression facing digital transformation. Executives are frustrated...

Millions at risk from malware in Avast

A major new cybersecurity threat – hidden inside a popular PC maintenance product from a company that also supplies security programs – could affect millions of users worldwide. According to Cisco Talos, the cybersecurity research team at Cisco, attackers have...