Insurers shift focus to customer experience, operational efficiency
Improving the customer experience and operational excellence, not growth, is the driving force of a majority of insurance digitalization initiatives in 2023, according to a new Gartner survey of insurance CIOs and technology executives. The 2023 Gartner CIO and...
Privacy predictions for 2023
This year we will witness the formation of an even more diverse market for behaviour tracking due to local law enforcement. Moreover, smartphones will take over traditional paperwork and the idea of a metaverse will become part of our reality. These are excerpts from...
New pics show the Sun up close
The first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun. Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, to study our closest star, the...
AI will separate banking winners from losers
Artificial intelligence (AI) will separate winning banks from losers, say 77% of banking executives surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic. They believe Covid-19 will intensify the use of AI, making effective governance more urgent, according to an Economist...
Financial services go all-in on multi-cloud adoption
The financial services industry is accelerating its shift to the cloud, as it presses forward with digital transformation in the face of security concerns. According to the Financial Services edition of F5's 2020 State of Application Services (SOAS) report, 60% of...
Twitter hack scores on bitcoin scam
A large-scale hack of Twitter accounts, typically those with millions of followers, is part of a bitcoin scam. The hacked accounts asked followers to send bitcoin currency to a cryptocurrency wallet, with the promise that the sender would double it. Many of them...
Technology presents answer to school closures
School closures as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic are putting children at risk on a number of fronts. However, technology presents solutions to these challenges. This is according to Admire Gwanzura, vice-resident of the IITPSA and an IITPSA Western Cape chapter...
New standards will boost IoT functionality
Enabling medical equipment to accurately record the time of diagnostic readings, making it easier to locate connected devices and speeding up the time it takes to develop new apps are just some of the new features to be unveiled as part of the fourth set of oneM2M's...
New appetite for used IT equipment
There is a new willingness by corporates to consider refurbished devices and consumers are also becoming more open to buying used electronics. This is largely due to delayed imports and OEMs not being able to produce and ship new electronics. Consumers are fast...
Monitor demand strong as supply begins to recover
Sales of monitors through distributors in Western Europe (WE) grew +14% year-on-year in the part of the second quarter of 2020 up to the first three weeks of June, according to the latest data published by IT market intelligence company Context. "Strong consumer...
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Huawei unveils Cloud Data Centre solution
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Printed educational matter still beneficial
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Datacentrix enhances infrastructure for GPW
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Controlling on- and offboarding in mining
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Travel safely this Easter with LBS
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Sony SA, Rectron offer service clinic
Following the success of its run in Durban, Sony South Africa and authorised service centre, Rectron, will be running a service clinic in Cape Town. This three day service will run from 15 to 17 March 2013 at the Rectron premises in Cape Town, 442 Koeberg Road,...
VMware outlines cloud strategy
At a Strategic Forum for Institutional Investors, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined the company’s strategy, revealing more details about its plans to deliver the software-defined datacenter, expand its hybrid cloud offerings and empower the multi-device era. “VMware’s...
The C, Ku and Ka-band satellite debate
With the launch of Ka-band satellites the debate of C versus Ku-band versus Ka-band has come to the fore, with varying opinions of the advantages of each technology against that of another. These considerations are valid and, in terms of a pure technology debate, very...
The true cost of freeware
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Senior Data Analyst (CPT/JHB)
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