The biggest roadblocks to effective savings in SA

Historically, South Africans have been poor savers. However, the onset of the pandemic, coupled with a historical economic downturn has placed the importance of saving under the spotlight. And for some South Africans, this reality hit home. By Nirdev Desai, head of...

Parenting control software can help manage Internet time

Parents have been managing their children’s play and education time for generations. Similarly, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been helping parents with controls for their kids’ access to the Internet since SA’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA)...

Technologies that will reinvent our digital future

2021 was a year of recovery and resilience, and one that brought extraordinary shifts in the way we live and work. Technology has been an important pillar throughout it all, helping the world to connect and collaborate, as it transformed the fundamentals of...

Digital experiences: what to expect in 2022 

Today, almost every experience a person has with an organisation will include some kind of digital component. By Greg Gatherer, account manager at Liferay Africa  The events of the past two years have only accelerated that phenomenon. What was, at one stage, something...

How Covid has changed payment behaviour

Covid is many horrific things, but it is also an accelerator of progress. Perhaps we would have got to the same place eventually, but it would have taken years. Compare this to the mere weeks it took us to globally adapt to remote work. By Kim Furman, marketing...

Digital safety this holiday season

This holiday season checking off that gift list will look a little different than in past years. By Aamir Lakhani, global security strategist and researcher at Fortinet Many shoppers are planning to rely on e-commerce for a significant amount of their holiday...