Stay cyber safe this holiday season

Criminal activity often peaks over holiday seasons, mostly because people are in good spirits and let their guard down. Many of the things we do over this period also make for easy opportunities for criminals to capitalise on. “The biggest myth we all believe is...
African tech trends for 2017

African tech trends for 2017

What technology trends are going to be relevant for Africa in the year ahead? Frost & Sullivan looks at the technology landcape from an African perspective, what it actually means for the market in its application and the wider implications in its development and...

Standard Bank buys SnapScan team at Firepay

Standard Bank has acquired a majority stake in Firepay, the team behind South Africa’s largest mobile payments product, SnapScan. Firepay was formed in 2013 to apply new mobile payments technology to build innovative products. In 2014 Firepay, in partnership...

All-flash storage solutions from Fujitsu

Fujitsu has launched its all-flash storage solutions into the South African market. It has been forecast that 50% of disk and hybrid storage will be replaced with all-flash by 2020, says Abdul Moosa. ?? at Fujitsu SA. He explains that the technology has come a long...
Woolley gets Dell EMC post

Woolley gets Dell EMC post

Doug Woolley is to take on the leadership of Dell EMC South Africa in February 2017, following the merger of Dell and EMC in September. Woolley was the country manager of Dell SA, while Jonas Bogoshi headed up EMC. There has been no indication yet of Bogoshi’s future...
AI will transform the call centre

AI will transform the call centre

By 2030, a significant proportion of the service element of contact centre operations will be automated, rather than provided by the human agent. This will result from significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI), especially in intelligent queue management,...