The Covid-19 pandemic has driven a reduction in Enterprise Supplier Development (ESD) spending among big companies. This is one of the findings from Edge Growth's annual survey into the state of ESD and SME development. A massive 62,8% of respondents who participated...

A new initiative by Vodafone Group and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations' specialised agency for ICT, aims to address the global digital divide by giving an additional 3,4-billion people the ability to access and use the internet...

Kathy Gibson reports from SAPInsider in Vienna - Sometimes innovation can come from the most unexpected places - but organisations might not stumble across it without the help of data analytics. Jayne Landry, global vice-president and GM at SAP Business Intelligence,...

Although CEOs believe they will be held accountable for security breaches in their organisations, many of them don't give the issue much attention, and even fewer have a plan to deal with it. These are among the findings of a VMware survey which shows that more than...

While first world cities once again led the Networked Society City Index 2016, Johannesburg showed encouraging signs of improvement, along with some other emerging market cities. Ericsson once again named Stockholm as the top-ranking city in the Index, followed by...

Supporting the IT edge is expensive, resource-intensive and full of potential data security risks. That's according to a Riverbed Technology survey that shows organisations are facing multiple challenges when managing IT at the edge - at remote and branch offices...

Pinnacle has signed a distribution agreement with Jide Technology to distribute the Remix Mini, which it believes to be the world's first true Android PC. The Remix Mini is powered by Remix OS, a custom-engineered version of Android Lollipop developed by Jide...

In the wake of World WiFi Day this week, the Wireless Access Providers Association (WAPA), is calling on government and industry in South Africa to rethink WiFi. WiFi is a transformative technology that makes life convenient for some, but it is also the only...

This year's top high-performance computing (HPC) companies include movie studios, medical centres and even a postal service. Winners of this year's HPC Innovation award at ISC16 include the Centre for Computational Medicine, University of Toronto; Walt Disney...

HiiL has opened the call for applications for the 2016 Justice Challenge. The call, which closes on 30th June 2016, will accept applications in the fields of Family Justice and SME Empowerment from innovators across Africa and the Middle East. Up to 160 000 EUR is...