African enterprises cautious about AR

With this year’s release of Pokémon Go, awareness of augmented reality (AR) applications soared among organisations and consumers. But despite its popularity and potential business benefits, AR adoption rates are slow among enterprises, according to a new study...

Xmas comes early with Vox, ShowMax and Game

Vox has kicked the festive season off early with a bundled offer with ShowMax, available exclusively at Game stores nationwide. Customers who purchase a television or DSTV Explora decoder to the value of R1 000 or more from Game will qualify for three months Showmax...
An IoT network for Africa

An IoT network for Africa

Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom in Cape Town – MTN has launched Africa’s first dedicated network for the Internet of Things (IoT), spanning the continent and the Middle East. Babak Fouladi, chief technology and information officer at MTN, this morning...
Watson turns to cancer research

Watson turns to cancer research

IBM Watson Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced a research initiative aimed at discovering the basis of cancer drug resistance. The five-year, $50-million project will study thousands of drug resistant tumors and draw on Watson’s...

Autonomy exec indicted on HP acquisition

The former chief financial officer of Autonomy – the company that HP acquired for $11-billion in 2011 – has been indicted in the US on felony fraud charges. Federal prosecutors claim that Sushovan Hussain and others were involved in a fraudulent scheme to...

Is the danger of sovereign downgrades over?

A welter of sovereign downgrades reached record levels in the second quarter of 2016. But early signs of rating downgrade abatement in the third quarter of 2016 suggest the worst may be over for commodity-related sovereign downgrades. This is according to the latest...