There has been a significant uplift in business confidence among South African small business owners, returning levels to those pre-Covid, despite a number of ongoing market challenges. According to the Q4 2021 SME Index conducted by Business Partners Limited, the...

BT and Toshiba, together with EY, have launched the trial of what they believe to be a world-first commercial quantum secured metro network. The infrastructure will be able to connect numerous customers across London, helping them to secure the transmission of...

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town - Digital business means that we have entered the third era of enterprise IT – and CIOs are excited about the new directions they can take the business. Tomas Nielsen, research director at Gartner, explains that the first...

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town - For this generation of business leaders, digital transformation could be a defining career issue, so they are serious about making it work. This is a major departure from how CEOs thought about IT and technology in the...

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town -- The platform model is starting to dominate the economy today, providing a way for information, goods and services to be shared between suppliers and consumers. But not every organisation will win in the platform economy,...

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town - User experience is important if we want technology to become widely used -- but it is hard to deliver. Gartner analyst Magnus Revang points out that there are 27 credible definitions of user experience -- possibly 28 by...

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town -- There is a looming talent cliff for technology skills -- while there has also been a 60% growth in non-IT skills. What organisations need is people with digital dexterity. Gartner finds. These people need to have the...

Cell C has continued on its wooing of customers with a range of new LTE-A data products and promotions. "As a business, we try to ensure that customers get the best value on offer and we believe that these new products will fall into that category. Data is an...

One of the world's most popular Bitcoin platforms, Luno, has announced it has expanded into 35 new markets across Europe, and a R120-million Series B funding round, led by London-based Balderton Capital. Rand Merchant Investments, through its fintech investment arm,...

IBM, MTN, Wageningen University (WU) in the Netherlands and Prodapt, are harnessing IBM Internet of Things (IoT) technology as part of the MTN Connected Wildlife Solution. The solution will help predict threats and combat the poaching of endangered rhinos at...