Talent cliff threatens digital transformation

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — There is a looming talent cliff for technology skills — while there has also been a 60% growth in non-IT skills. What organisations need is people with digital dexterity. Gartner finds. These people need to...

More data specials from Cell C

Cell C has continued on its wooing of customers with a range of new LTE-A data products and promotions. “As a business, we try to ensure that customers get the best value on offer and we believe that these new products will fall into that category. Data is an...

Rand Merchant invests in Bitcoin platform

One of the world’s most popular Bitcoin platforms, Luno, has announced it has expanded into 35 new markets across Europe, and a R120-million Series B funding round, led by London-based Balderton Capital. Rand Merchant Investments, through its fintech investment...

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...