NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Gloomy outlook for global economies as geopolitical tensions worsen

Coface’s latest risk review, Rates Against the Machine, has confirmed what the world dreaded just a few months ago has come to pass – rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again. This, Coface says, puts upward pressure on commodity...

Banks are still missing the links between fraud and money laundering

Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report...

African family firms must act now to secure their future

Africa's family business leaders are optimistic and ambitious about their growth and economic recovery for 2022. Although the overall outlook for family businesses is positive, business owners will need to address the challenges and opportunities that come with...

iPad hits 540m units in lifetime sales

Apple's iPad sales spiked in 2020, as lockdown measures forced people worldwide to switch to working and educating at home. The surge in demand for iPad tablets, especially in the last quarter of the year, pushed its lifetime sales above the half-a-billion benchmark....

Ripple well-placed for global adoption

Ripple, a new payments system that has grown out of Bitcoin, could become a new standard for international payments. An IDC Financial Insights study builds on recent IDC analysis of the Bitcoin ecosystem by considering the potential of Ripple, an offshoot of Bitcoin which purports to be an open source, realtime payment settlement infrastructure, and the impact it could have on the financial services industry.

Twitter relaxes 140-character limitation

Twitter has removed the 140-character limitation from Direct Messages. Tweets still have to be 140 characters or less, but the private side of the popular messaging service can now be longer. Sending and receiving Direct Messages sent via SMS will still be limited....

HST lands Tanzanian lab contract

Health Systems Technologies (HST), a subsidiary of African Equity Empowerment Investments Limited (AEEI), has secured a contract with the Tanzanian Ministry of Health to implement Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). HST, a leading provider of integrated...

Chinese cloud providers in global expansion

The Alibaba Group is to make an additional investment of $1-billion into Aliyun, its cloud computing unit. The capital will be used to expand Aliyun’s international presence and support infrastructures, in addition to R&D in cloud computing, big data, and the...

Opera buys Bemobi, adds app discovery

Opera Software has acquired Bemobi, a subscription-based mobile app-discovery service in Latin America. Bemobi offers a one of a kind, “Netflix-style” subscription service for premium Android apps. Working with mobile operators, Bemobi’s proprietary app-wrapping...

Huawei SA embraces IoT infrastructure

The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving a new industrial revolution, and new solutions are required to ensure that businesses can take full advantage of the new trend. Huawei's Mark Wu points out that the traditional network was called on to connect PCs, laptops and...

Huawei debuts servers, storage in SA

Huawei has kicked off its Huawei Enterprise Eastern and Southern Africa Technology Showcase in Gauteng, launching new servers and storage systems to the local market. The two-day showcase consists of three different platforms: the Huawei Agile Network 3.0 conference...

Watson will ‘see’ images

IBM has announced that Watson will gain the ability to "see" by bringing together its advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare’s medical imaging management platform. IBM plans to acquire Merge, a provider...

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