Sep 11, 2017
University of the People, the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, accredited US online university, officially opened its new academic year for more than 400 South African students last week. UoPeople says it continues to see a growing increase in the numbers...
Sep 8, 2017
IBM and MIT have announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240-million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT. The lab will carry out fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) research and seek to propel scientific breakthroughs...
Sep 8, 2017
Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect in Shanghai — Organisations are looking to cloud computing as their digital transformation enabler, but there is still a tremendous amount of innovation taking place lower down the stack at the network level. That’s the word...
Sep 8, 2017
In line with its stated goal of becoming a more diversified ICT organisation, Alviva has gone on the acquisition trail buying infrastructure management company Sintrex and Gridcars which develops electric vehicle charge point software. Alviva has acquired 51% of...
Sep 8, 2017
Consumers in South Africa prefer a digital-first approach to resolving their basic banking issues, only talking to a human being if they have to, according to a new survey from Avaya. Out of nine countries surveyed, South Africans were the most likely to say they...
Sep 8, 2017
Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect in Shanghai – In the innovative world of technology, great ideas abound — but many of them fall by the wayside because it’s just not possible for developers to productise their ideas. “We believe that everyone can...
