SA’s IT services spend set for healthy growth

IT services spending in South Africa is expected to increase 8,8% year on year in 2016 to total $5-billion, according to the latest forecasts from International Data Corporation (IDC). Referencing its recently published report, ‘Africa IT Services Market...
Get ready for self-driving cars

Get ready for self-driving cars

The era of the autonomous vehicle (AV) is fast approaching. Mass-market adoption of AVs will be the greatest inflection point for the automotive industry since the introduction of the assembly line and will confer tremendous benefits on society. This is according to a...

Video-on-demand hits the sweet spot

Video-on-demand (VOD) services are meeting consumer needs and allowing people to change their viewing habits, according to the Ericsson ConsumerLab TV and Media Report. Consumers now spend six hours per week watching streamed on-demand TV series, programs, and movies...

Africa brimming with retail potential

Sub-Saharan Africa is brimming with potential, being one of the few regions in the world with annual GDP growth of more than 5%. AT Kearney’s 2015 African Retail Development Index (ARDI) reconfirms the potential of many nations throughout Africa – not just...

Workonline is first pan-African NSP to join MANRS

Terrestrial network service provider Workonline Communications has become the first pan-African NSP to join the group of worldwide MANRS supporters by declaring that it implements all four of the routing manifesto actions. MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing...

What’s holding SA back?

South Africa needs to improve the commercialisation of innovation in universities in order to boost the creation of small and medium enterprises. This is one of the key areas identified in SiMODiSA’s research on constraints which are hindering the growth of...