The existence of paper within a business process is typically a road block that slows business processes down. This is the word from Greg Griffith, senior product manager at Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa, who adds that the existence of paper within a...

Near-term growth prospects have slumped due to intensified power cuts, according to Absa's first quarter perspective report. The bank has cut its GDP forecast for Q4 22 to -0,5% q/q and also projects a Q1 23 contraction. For 2023 as a whole, the impact of power cuts...

From 30 August to 8 September 2019 the Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will return to Johannesburg to explore and celebrate technology and creativity by Africans for Africa. The 2019 festival has cast its central theme as "Own your Force", which invites...

Motor car sales are down, with just 36 922 new vehicles (passenger and commercial vehicles) were sold on dealer floors in June 2019, showing a 3,6% reduction over the same period last year. The cumulative year-on-year figures, compared to 2018, show that 215 206 new...

To successfully recruit and hire candidates in today's digital era, organisations must redefine the role of the hiring manager to be decisive, according to Gartner. However, more than three-quarters of hiring managers do not act decisively. Gartner says the...

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has launched NTT Ltd, a global technology services provider that brings together the capabilities of 28 companies, including NTT Communications, Dimension Data and NTT Security, into one $11-billion business. The new NTT Ltd...

Google Cloud is building a private inter-continental subsea cable to link Europe and Africa. Equiano will jump off in Lisbon, with its first branch to Lagos, and will end in Cape Town. Additional branching units can extend connectivity to additional African countries....

IBM has built Pangea III, the world's most powerful commercial supercomputer for Total, a supermajor global energy company operating in more than 130 countries. The new IBM Power9-based supercomputer will help Total more accurately locate new resources and better...

The worldwide augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headset market returned to growth after a year of decline as global shipments during the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19) reached 1,3-million, up 27,2% from the same quarter last year. The overall AR/VR market...

The global installed base of active off-highway vehicle telematics systems is estimated by Berg Insight to have reached 3,3-million units in 2018. This includes connected units deployed on various off-highway vehicles across the construction, mining, agriculture and...