R60m injection for WeThinkCode expansion

BCX will provide R60-million over three years WeThinkCode, a tuition-free programme designed to educate the next generation of software engineers in South Africa. BCX is the new primary growth partner of WeThinkCode and this investment will allow the organisation to...

Turnaround puts Altron back on track

Allied Electronics (Altron) has posted a decline in revenue for the year ended 28 February 2017, but has made progress in divesting of its non-core assets and has significantly reduced losses from these operations.  The group expects to complete a number of these...

Hajime gathers in 300 000 IoT devices

A mysterious evolving Internet of Things (IoT) malware that builds a huge peer-to-peer botnet has been propagating extensively, infecting multiple devices worldwide. To date, the network includes almost 300 000 malware-compromised devices, ready to work together, to...
Cognitive systems alleviate loneliness

Cognitive systems alleviate loneliness

Despite the societal impact of a rapidly growing aging population struggling with loneliness, a recent study by IBM finds there is also a tremendous opportunity for new and existing organisations to create solutions that improve how older adults engage with the...

What’s holding you back from digitalisation?

Kathy Gibson at IDC’s CIO Summit in Johannesburg – When we talk about digital transformation, it means more than a technology refresh or a new system – it is about a continuous process by which enterprises adapt to or drive disruptive changes. Jon Tullet, research...

The ‘black sheep of the family’

Mark Davison at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas – If he hadn’t started tinkering with computers while at college, things could have worked out very differently for Michael Dell – a totally different vocation, for instance. It’s one of those questions everyone wants to...