Forrester still expects huge B2B sales losses

In a 2015 report titled “Death Of A (B2B) Salesman”, Forrester predicted that 1-million business to business (B2B) sales reps would lose their jobs between 2012 and 2020 – and it looks like this will come true. Two years later, Andy Hoar, the lead...

Hackathon aims for water crisis solutions

Rise, Barclays Africa’s innovation hub in Cape Town, hosted a water hackathon last weekend (24-25 March) to help harness the power of technology, innovation and collaboration in finding solutions to the water crisis in South Africa’s Western Cape province....

IBM patents cognitive self-driving system

IBM scientists have been granted a patent around a machine learning system that can dynamically shift control of an autonomous vehicle between a human driver and a vehicle control processor in the event of a potential emergency, providing a safety measure that can...

Windows 10 Creators Update adds 3D and more

The Windows 10 Creators Update, the third major release of the operating system, will be available in South Africa from April 11. It will feature 3D, mixed reality, enhanced apps, improved security and 4K gaming. Currently, more than 400-million devices are running...

Unprecedented demand for IT skills

IT professionals are in the fortunate position of having a highly desirable skill set in an environment where there isn’t much competition. The online job market is booming with jobs from administration to engineering and manufacturing jobs. But there jobs are...

Security spending set for rapid increase

Worldwide revenues for security-related hardware, software, and services will reach $81,7-billion in 2017, an increase of 8,2% over 2016. A new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that global...