Getting artificial intelligence (AI) right isn't just about investing the most time or money. Gartner has outlined four implementation behaviours that are the most important in quickly delivering finance AI initiatives that meet or exceed the expected impact and...

A team led by researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand, with collaborators from the University of Pretoria, as well as Mexico and Scotland, have made a new discovery on how light behaves in complex media, media that tends to distort light significantly. They...

Data privacy concerns are causing significant sales cycle delays for up to 65% of businesses worldwide. This is according to findings in the new Cisco 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study, which also shows that privacy maturity is connected to lower losses from...

Bitcoin's price has increased more than 12-fold in the past four years, and the combined market of crypto-assets is now valued at more than $500-billion -- causing many to think the market is overheated. "I tend to think of bitcoin as an interesting experiment, not a...

South Africa's IT resellers are urged to name their favourite vendors and distributors, giving them the opportunity to win one of the coveted titles in the Channelwise Awards. The annual awards recognise the vendors and distributors who best met the needs of their...

Worldwide spending on blockchain solutions is forecast to reach $2,1-billion in 2018, more than double the $945-million spent in 2017. In its inaugural Worldwide Semiannual Blockchain Spending Guide, International Data Corporation (IDC) expects blockchain spending to...

Senior business executives and government agency leaders from around the world lack confidence in their organisations' readiness to influence and harness the opportunities offered by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). According Deloitte Global research,...

Meg Whitman, outgoing CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), has joined content startup NewTV. She will step down from HPE on 1 February and, on 1 March, will join Hollywood entrepreneur Jeffrey Katzenberg at the new company. Industry insiders are still in the dark...

In the past, when activists wanted to make a statement, they would spray graffiti on a wall or march outside an organisation's building carrying placards. The digital age has provided activists and vandals with a completely different set of tools that have proved to...

Organisations are embracing self-service analytics and business intelligence (BI) to bring these capabilities to business users of all levels. This trend is so pronounced that Gartner predicts that by 2019, the analytics output of business users with self-service...