SAP bets €2bn on IoT

SAP bets €2bn on IoT

SAP is betting big on Internet of Things (IoT), and is planning to invest €2-billion over the next five years to accelerate innovation in its IoT solution portfolio, increase sales and marketing, scale service, support and co-innovation, and grow its ecosystem of...

New-generation AI avoids mistakes of the past

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – The new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) will be capable of learning as they go along, and should avoid some of the disasters of the past where automated scripts caused things like stock market...

SA consumers want more digital services

A massive 95% of South Africans use their smartphone more than any other device, with nearly half of them using their mobiles as their primary device to access digital services. This is according to the findings from the Mastercard Impact of Innovation study, released...

Dramatic drop in African smartphone shipments

Shipments of smartphones in Africa fell 5,2% to 23,1-million units in the second quarter of 2016, according to the latest figures from International Data Corporation (IDC). These figures, presented in IDC’s recently published ‘Worldwide Mobile Phone...

Ericsson aims to bridge the digital divide

As governments meet at the UN General Assembly to discuss progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, Ericsson has announced a set of solutions to help bridge the digital divide and bring mobile broadband coverage to the remaining 3-billion people who are...

Born Free welcomes CITES move on ivory trade

International wildlife charity, Born Free Foundation, has welcomed the decision by delegates at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), to end a decade-long discussion about the...