Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

SA must put jobs at the centre of its AI future

South Africans are embracing AI, but turning that appetite into economic opportunity will require trained educators, reliable Internet, affordable access, recognised skills pathways, scaling of existing financing models, and investment in the country’s own languages,...

SA’s data centre boom starts to raise questions

South Africa’s rapidly expanding data centre sector is highlighting a fundamental gap in how the country plans and regulates major digital infrastructure: there is no comprehensive public record of how many facilities are operating, where they are located, or how much...

Risk management must address shifting nature of business volatility

The past two years have been incredibly volatile, according to Aon's 2021 Global Risk Management Survey, with the global Covid-19 pandemic having had a ripple effect across other types of risk, such as heightened awareness of reputation and cyber, as long-tail risks...

One-vendor approach to cloud pronounced dead

A new global study from IBM shows there has been a drastic shift in business needs as only 3% of respondents reported using a single private or public cloud in 2021, down from 29% in 2019 - establishing hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture. The global study,...

CIOs must move from suppliers to trusted allies

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town – As digital transformation gains momentum, CIOs need to take on a role in the C-suite that is equal to their contemporaries in other disciplines. Gartner analyst Lee Weldon points out that most CIOs have...

Cell C gets aggressive with new contracts

Cell C has gone on the offensive against its rivals with the launch of a number of new, aggressively-priced contracts in its Pinnacle suite. The company says it is introducing a new range of Pinnacle contract plans to cater for the broader market at various levels of...

SAP bets €2bn on IoT

SAP is betting big on Internet of Things (IoT), and is planning to invest €2-billion over the next five years to accelerate innovation in its IoT solution portfolio, increase sales and marketing, scale service, support and co-innovation, and grow its ecosystem of...

New-generation AI avoids mistakes of the past

Kathy Gibson reports from Gartner Symposium in Cape Town - The new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) will be capable of learning as they go along, and should avoid some of the disasters of the past where automated scripts caused things like stock market...

SA consumers want more digital services

A massive 95% of South Africans use their smartphone more than any other device, with nearly half of them using their mobiles as their primary device to access digital services. This is according to the findings from the Mastercard Impact of Innovation study, released...

Dramatic drop in African smartphone shipments

Shipments of smartphones in Africa fell 5,2% to 23,1-million units in the second quarter of 2016, according to the latest figures from International Data Corporation (IDC). These figures, presented in IDC's recently published 'Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker', indicate...

Ericsson aims to bridge the digital divide

As governments meet at the UN General Assembly to discuss progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, Ericsson has announced a set of solutions to help bridge the digital divide and bring mobile broadband coverage to the remaining 3-billion people who are...

Born Free welcomes CITES move on ivory trade

International wildlife charity, Born Free Foundation, has welcomed the decision by delegates at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), to end a decade-long discussion about the...

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