May 19, 2016
The most important factors that employers of women need to consider when looking to retain employees include a good work life balance, competitive salary and fulfilling work, according to 97% of respondents to a Robert Walters study. The research, which surveyed over...
May 19, 2016
Mobile phones serving as digital wallets for payments to response workers proved an invaluable tool in Sierra Leone’s response to the Ebola crisis. With economic instability, natural disasters and political conflict now taking place at unprecedented rates, a new...
May 19, 2016
Blockchain technologies (the technical foundation for Bitcoin) hold great potential to solve government’s long-term challenge of establishing clear rules about who has control over specific types of information. Additional governmental obstacles that blockchain...
May 19, 2016
Electronic fund transfers (EFT) may be one of the older payment methods on the block, but thanks to fraud and crime they are experiencing a revival. As technology platforms evolve to make EFTs more easily managed by users and merchants alike, they are growing in...
May 19, 2016
Cell C, in conjunction with Huawei, achieved speeds of over 600Mbps download on its LTE-U test site. Using a pre-commercial device, Cell C used 15MHz of its licensed spectrum in 2100MHz and 2 x 20MHz of spectrum in the 5GHz Wi-Fi band to conduct the test. Using this...
May 18, 2016
For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated reliably storing three bits of data per cell using a relatively new memory technology known as phase-change memory (PCM). The current memory landscape spans from DRAM to hard disk drives to flash. But in...
