Slow rise of the robots …

Slow rise of the robots …

Despite plans to invest in machines and artificial intelligence as part of their strategy to boost productivity, many automotive and industrial equipment companies are failing to implement the measures needed to harness these capabilities. This is according to a new...

Wireless Internet providers not top of the pops

South Africans are about as happy with their wireless internet service providers as they are with airlines – so not very happy at all. While average customer satisfaction scores with wireless internet providers increased slightly from last year’s score,...

Ethical consumers take their buying online

Ethical consumerism remains a relatively long tail in the retail industry, and it makes sense that it’s a niche well-suited to e-commerce. There’s not a lot of research on the status of ethical consumerism in South Africa, but the 2015 Ethical Markets...

Commercial notebooks turn the corner

PC shipments in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) reached 17,2 -million units in the first quarter of 2016 — a 14,6% decrease year on year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Despite the shrinking market, commercial notebook PCs returned...

New MD, new direction for Bytes Managed Solution

Fourie van der Merwe has been appointed as MD of Bytes Managed Solutions (Bytes MS), part of the Altron group of companies and the sole distributor of NCR products in South Africa, effective 1 March 2016. Deidre Le Hanie steps down after 11 years at the helm. Van der...

FlySafair offers GDE advice on crashing site

The Gauteng Department of Education has had a series of upsets with its new online school registration system, and has suspended it several times since it was supposed to go live last week. FlySafair, which had similar problems with it launched a one-day special...