What a solar flare looks like

What a solar flare looks like

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:29 pm EDT on this weekend (17 April), and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation...

How to survive the crisis in leadership

There’s a leadership crisis happening not only in South Africa, but across the globe – and its taking its toll on organisational performance and sustainability. This is according to Kay Vittee, CEO of Quest Staffing Solutions, who notes that it is clear...

In tough times, consumers are better with credit

Credit-active consumers showed some positive trends in the fourth quarter of 2015, but data from Compuscan points to the fact that a number of consumers are still in a position of financial strain. The economy, no doubt, continued to play a large influencing role in...

Uber will deliver flu shots this Friday

Winter and flu season are on its way, so companies can expect many employees to be taking days off sick. While flu vaccinations ae available, many South Africans fail to get the “shots timeously. Now Uber has partnered with Discovery and Dis-Chem to bring flu...

IDC positions cloud service providers

Cost management, together with financial/funding strategies were valued most highly by customers, on average, across all cloud professional services providers evaluated. Likewise, buyers told IDC in its 2016 MarketScape report profiling and positioning provers in the...

MTN zero-rates d6 Communicator

In a bid to broaden access to broadband and alleviate the costs associated with access to data, MTN has zero rated d6 Communicator on its 32-million network. The decision by MTN to zero-rate d6 Communicator is an acknowledgement of the mounting pressure on...