The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced the launch of the Partner2Connect Digital Coalition to foster meaningful connectivity and digital transformation in the world's hardest-to-connect countries. These include the Least Developed Countries,...

Subscription is a global trend that has also impacted South Africa, which currently has 7,2-million active subscriptions. The subscription economy, or subscronomics in the country, will be around $530-million this year, according to the latest analysis presented by...

Providing customer-facing financial services employees with better access to data leads to more revenue, reduced customer churn, and increased customer satisfaction, according to the findings of a global study by WSJ Insights, sponsored by Qlik. According to the...

Customers’ expectations and demands are rapidly changing and studies reveal that companies are losing customers as they demand more human interface. According to Accenture Strategy’s Global Consumer Pulse Research, 76% of South African consumers prefer dealing with...

By 2020, a corporate "no-cloud" policy will be as rare as a "no-internet" policy is today, according to Gartner. Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent years. Today, most provider...

To protect their privacy, paranoid users are turning to a multitude of methods to keep their personal data away from prying eyes in the online world, including hiding their computers. Yet multiple research studies from Kaspersky Lab shows that not enough users are...

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, the worldwide converged systems market increased revenue 11% year over year to $2,5-billion during the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16). The market generated 1 367...

Innovation, particularly technological innovation, plays a key role in the modern operating environment for organisations of all sizes, by enabling disruptive startups to compete more effectively against established market players for instance. It is therefore key...

Access Power, a developer, owner and operator of renewable power projects in emerging markets, has announced the winners of the 2016 $7-million Access Co-Development Facility (ACF), a financial support mechanism for renewable energy projects in Africa. Three projects...

Four students from Wits University and two students from Stellenbosch University emerged as the champions at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany. The students were participating in the event through the Centre for High Performance Computing’s (CHPC)...