Feb 6, 2013
A small improvement in labour mobility could have huge economic benefits for South Africa, actually driving GDP up by as much as 40%. A study commissioned by Citrix reveals that an increase of as little as 5% in the mobility of the workforce, information and...
Feb 6, 2013
Organisations are widely migrating to the cloud to gain competitive advantages around speed, agility and flexibility – in South Africa, nine out of 10 organisations are now involved in cloud computing – but they are having to invest heavily to ensure their security....
Feb 6, 2013
The number of users of mobile video calling services is forecast to increase four-fold to almost 160-million by 2017, driven by improvements in both the user-interface and the underlying technology. A study by Juniper Research finds that advertising and freemium...
Feb 6, 2013
By the end of 2015, 50% of new retail customer identities will be based on social network identities, up from less than 5% today, according to Gartner. Along with federation technologies and mobile computing, social identity adoption will have a major impact on the...
Feb 6, 2013
As the world becomes urbanised, the resulting stress on virtually all global systems may only be solved by the concept of smart cities. A new report by GBI Research argues that, while it is becoming a bigger and bigger challenge to maintain necessary supplies of...
Feb 6, 2013
Experts say that South Africa, particularly the Western Cape, is seeing significant growth as a business process outsourcing (BPO) destination. Bruce von Maltitz, director of hosted call centre technology provider 1stream, says that this proves that international...
