Covid could revolutionise eco-friendly business travel
Sustainable business travel programmes are set to boom post COVID-19 as travel managers rally behind new opportunities to fast-track their climate compliance. Bonnie Smith, GM at FCM, comments: "While traveller safety will of course be a key component of any of the...
How to achieve a happier (and safer) internet
Fake news, hate speech, phishing, fraud and hacking - the internet isn't safe, but it can be manageable, writes Stephen Osler, co-founder and business development director at Nclose. Safer Internet Day (SID) was launched in 2004 as part of the EU SafeBorders project...
Smart security, storage and consumer perceptions under the spotlight
Smart devices are increasingly a part of everyday life both inside and outside of the home and this only accelerated further in 2020. By Davide Villa, business development director for EMEAI at Western Digital Outside of the home, security cameras and other smart...
How we’ll plan our travel differently now
Even as the Covid-19 pandemic has continued to pause travel around the world, it has not stopped people from dreaming about where they want to take their next, somewhat off-schedule, vacation. By Jiten Vyas, regional group chief operating officer: Australasia, China,...
Weighing in on the great WhatsApp debate
It didn’t take long for the first scandal to hit 2021, with WhatsApp announcing that users must accept the new terms of service by February 2021 or lose use of the application, and the terms were cause for global concern. “You will lose WhatsApp if you don’t update...
Vodacom zero-rates Bright Sky SA gender-based violence awareness app
Vodacom has zero-rated its Bright Sky SA app, which was launched in November last year. This ensures that Vodacom users will not incur any data costs when downloading the app or accessing many of the referral links to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) support services found...
RoomRaccoon named world’s Best Hotel Management System
For the second year in a row Hotel Tech Report announced that RoomRaccoon has been awarded the prestigious HotelTechAward as Best Hotel Management System in the World. Besides being recognised as the number one Hotel Management System, RoomRaccoon was also awarded...
Dynabook brings 11th Gen Intel Core Processors to key devices
Dynabook Europe has updated three business devices targeted at the business and education market. The Tecra A30-J and Satellite Pro L50-J are updated with the latest 11th Gen Intel Core processors and DDR4 memory, while the Satellite Pro C40-G now features additional...
Tracker debuts Tracker CareGuard powered by Aura
A first internationally, Tracker's new service Tracker CareGuard offers rapid mobile emergency response anywhere within South Africa and at any time, provided in partnership with technology platform Aura. The service enables subscribers to request immediate armed...
LG to unveil QNED Mini LED TV at virtual CES
LG Electronics (LG) will introduce its first-ever QNED Mini LED TVs at the all virtual CES(r) 2021 as its top-of-the-line offering among LG's 2021 premium LCD TV lineup. Thanks to quantum dot and NanoCell technologies with Mini LEDs as the light source, brightness and...
LG plans autonomous robot for disinfecting
LG Electronics is developing an autonomous robot that will use ultraviolet (UV-C) light to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas. LG Business Solutions USA plans to offer the UV robot to US hospitality, education, corporate, retail, restaurant, and transportation...
Connectivity will shape the future of movement
The pandemic and the lockdown have reduced our mobility, but our connectedness – via IoT, the Cloud and AI – has helped us overcome this. As society gets moving again, connectedness will redefine the way we do it, writes Pierre Bruwer, MD of Netstar. The...