Apr 24, 2013
Scientists from IBM have revealed a mobile maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) prototype which is designed to help manufacturers and companies supplying and maintaining high-value machinery in sectors such as aerospace, oil and gas, and shipping. The mobile...
Apr 24, 2013
The most widely anticipated, but least understood, “next big thing” in the networked world is Hotspot 2.0 (HS 2.0), according to Ruckus Wireless. As a multi-industry initiative or framework for automating many of today’s manual WiFi tasks, the shared vision for HS 2.0...
Apr 23, 2013
Marking Earth Day yesterday, scientists announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2 000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide desalinated...
Apr 23, 2013
Big data, analytics and cloud computing are underpinning growth in the enterprise software market, even as the sector braces itself for slower growth going forward. This is one of the findings from International Data Corporation (IDC), which yesterday released the...
Apr 23, 2013
Small businesses are losing more than $24-billion in productivity each year when non-technical employees, referred to as involuntary IT managers (IITMs), are tasked with managing their companies’ IT solutions. This loss is a direct result of IITMs taking time away...
Apr 23, 2013
Riding the anticipated wave of cloud computing adoption, the South African hosted contact centre market is set to expand from $3,2-million in 2012 to $47,8-million by 2018, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. In its latest report, Cloud Networking: A...
