Open source drives digitalisation

Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague – Open source has a big role to play in enabling the new trends driving IT and business today. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, data analytics, high performance computing and digital transformation all benefit from...

Foreign content providers underestimate local laws

Overseas mobile content and application providers wanting to target Africa’s 900-million cellular users seriously underestimate the sophisticated regulatory and legislative framework in continental leaders like South Africa. Not only is the Constitution of the...

Spending on AI set to soar

Worldwide spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) systems is forecast to reach $57,6-billion in 2021, according to IDC. With many industries aggressively investing in cognitive and AI solutions, spending is expected to achieve a compound annual growth...

Not all doom and gloom for SA drivers

Shell South Africa, in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London, has announced the results of its new ground-breaking emotion tracking research to better understand South African motorists. Observing diverse driving conditions from three continents across the...
UCT researcher looks to offset water scarcity

UCT researcher looks to offset water scarcity

Cape Town uses about 300-million cubic metres of water annually, most of which comes from the six major reservoirs, but every year four times as much as that falls on the city as rain. Now civil engineer and PhD researcher John Okedi is studying ways in which this...

SUSE gets closer to Huawei, SAP

Kathy Gibson at SUSEcon, Prague – SUSE will today announce new partnerships with Huawei and SAP. Partnering is key to providing enterprise users with complete solutions, and SUSE is extending its ecosystem with these new technology alliances. The company that stands...