De Beers opts for Oracle in-store

Luxury retailer De Beers Jewellers is adopting modern Oracle Xstore technology to enhance its customers’ shopping experience. Each of De Beers’ 33 stores, located in 15 countries, are equipped with the proprietary De Beers Iris technology that allows...

SweepSouth helps domestic workers prepare for coronavirus

Online cleaning service SweepSouth has proactively started preparing domestic workers who find work using its platform on the Covid-19 virus. While SweepSouth is only a platform connecting previously unemployed and underemployed domestic workers looking for work with...

Academy targets 5 000 new data scientists by 2025

Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA) aims to have trained 5 000 data scientists and most placed into jobs in South Africa by 2025. The number is based on the Academy’s current trajectory, which has trained and placed close to 500 young data scientists in just two...

Expanded portfolio from VMware

VMware has announced a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to help customers modernise their applications and infrastructure. The company is introducing the newly expanded VMware Tanzu portfolio for modern applications, and VMware Cloud Foundation 4 with...

Communication key in coronavirus crisis

As the global spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19 continues to dominate both news and personal discussions, many employers are taking steps to mitigate the spread of the virus within organisations. A critical part of this is making sure that staff are equipped...

Nokia Bell Labs posts fibre records

Nokia Bell Labs researchers have set the world record for the highest single carrier bit rate at 1,52 Terabits per second (Tbit/s) over 80 km of standard single mode fiber – the equivalent of simultaneously streaming 1,5-million YouTube videos – which is...