CIOs must digitally remaster organisations

Feb 3, 2015

Many industries have already been disrupted and redefined by digitalisation. As the digital revolution progresses, it will create an even greater need for new information management roles as business units rush to harness the digital opportunities of big data. Gartner...

R1m up for grabs in BBM recruitment drive

Feb 3, 2015

BlackBerry is actively looking to sign up South African BBM users, and will give away up to R1-million worth of prizes in its people-centric engagement programme called The Great South African BBM Recruitment Contest. This initiative, the first of its kind for the messaging application, is designed to simultaneously express appreciation to South Africa’s millions of loyal BBM users while opening the door to thousands more.

EMV card fraud is on the increase

Feb 3, 2015

Following some high-profile data breaches in 2014, US payment card network participants began heavily endorsing Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) chip cards as an important way to prevent damage from payment card breaches. However, criminals have taken advantage of...

SMMEs win as broadband costs plummet

Feb 3, 2015

The price of broadband Internet access for small- to medium-sized businesses is plummeting. According to Turrito Networks commercial director Louis Jardim, this is opening the way to more widespread investment in cloud applications and services. “The price of...

Handi’Educ app an innovation finalist

Feb 3, 2015

Team Handi’Educ from Senegal has emerged a semi-finalist in the Ericsson Innovation Awards representing sub-Saharan Africa. The innovative team, comprising three engineering students, developed an educative Web/mobile application to support handicapped children in a...

Artisan training numbers in downward spiral

Feb 3, 2015

As on-going retrenchments in the mining industry continue, artisan training appears to be in a downward spiral, according to at least one private artisan training company. Sean Jones, a co-founder and director of Artisan Training Institute (ATI), says bookings for...