Mar 22, 2013
South Africa, host to this year’s summit of the emerging BRICS countries, is not a model for sustainable development on the African continent. That is to say, the country, in contrast to Brazil for example, has not made convincing social progress in important...
Mar 22, 2013
ICT brands are well represented in the latest Cultural Traction report from Added Value. The top 10 on a global basis are: * Google; * Apple; * Samsung; * IKEA; * Microsoft; * Sony; * BMW; * Audi; * Coca-Cola; and * eBay. Cultural Traction 2013 involved 62 250...
Mar 22, 2013
Lockheed Martin has become the first company to commercialise quantum computing, and to use it in the business. A report in the New York Times reveals that the US-based military contractor will be putting technology it acquired from D-Wave Systems to work in a...
Mar 20, 2013
A great deal has changed since The Economist labelled Africa as “the Hopeless Continent” 10 years ago. Over the past decade, six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing countries were African; emerging economies in the East and West of Africa indicate a 6% to 7% economic...
Mar 20, 2013
Cell C has announced the appointment of Mohammed Hariri as a director and chairman of the Cell C board. Hariri takes over the position of chairman from Simon Duffy, who tendered his resignation from the board. Hariri is the chairman of the board of Oger Telecom, Cell...
Mar 20, 2013
Riverbed Technology reveals that 71% of CIOs expect to increase IT spending in 2013. The findings are the result of an independent research project regarding IT spending priorities across numerous industries in Europe. The survey was commissioned by Riverbed and...
