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...

Government policies deprive users of fast, affordable access

Kathy Gibson reports - South Africans have lost out on better coverage and lower data prices for years, as a direct result of regulatory failure and political ideology. Government policies in telecommunication, spectrum, competition and digital migration have deprived...

Strong rebound for IT services in 2021

Worldwide IT and business services revenue declined 1,16% year over year (in constant currency) in 2020, according to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker. In nominal dollar denominated revenue based on today's exchange rate, the decline was 1,53%, due to FX....

EMC sees small gains in Q2

EMC has announced that its second quarter GAAP revenue is up 2% year-over-year, with non-GAAP revenue up 3% (up 8% on a constant currency basis) year-over-year. GAAP revenue was reduced by the amount of a VMware settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...

New energy from rare earth

A team of scientists has discovered a novel approach to crafting higher thermoelectric efficiencies, which can help develop electrical energy from waste heat such as that emitted by internal combustion engines. Professor André Strydom from the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) collaborated with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing; Institute of Solid State Physics in Vienna; the Max Planck Institute in Dresden; and the University of Aarhus in Denmark in the discovery. A research article, Large Seebeck Effect by Charge-Mobility Engineering, co-authored by Prof Strydom, appeared in the June 2015 edition of Nature Communications.

Vox Telecom fast-tracks fibre strategy

Vox Telecom has announced the first significant investment in its own fibre infrastructure, with the acquisition of Internet services company Frogfoot Networks. The acquisition will see Vox Telecom fast-tracking its own fibre strategy by leveraging the existing...

There’s a will to invest in Gauteng

A call for strong partnerships and collaboration between government and the private sector was well received during the inaugural Gauteng Infrastructure Investment Conference, which closed yesterday. The two-day conference aimed to promote mutually beneficial and...

Wearables key to m-health initiatives

Wearable devices are expected to represent the next wave of m-health solutions and will potentially act as the gateway to the connected health world. The number of sensors and wearable devices that will be shipped globally will increase drastically over the next three to four years, reaching a market value of almost $40-billion by 2018. Frost & Sullivan will present some of the key requirements in the establishment of a connected healthcare ecosystem at the 5th annual Growth Innovation Leadership (GIL) 2015: Africa Congress in Cape Town on 20 August.

Cloud services drive Microsoft revenues

Microsoft has reported revenues for the quarter ended 30 June 2015 of $22,2-billion. Gross margin, operating loss, and loss per share for the quarter were $14,7-billion, $2,1-billion, and $0.40 per share, respectively. These results include the impact of a...

Apple posts record sales, but disappoints

Apple posted quarterly revenue of $49,6-billion and quarterly net profit of $10,7-billion, or $1.85 per diluted share for its fiscal 2015 third quarter ended 27 June 2015. These results compare to revenue of $37,4-billion and net profit of $7,7-billion, or $1.28 per...

5G will drive autonomous vehicles

The world will soon see 5G emerge as a blend of pre-existing technologies such as 2G, 3G, 4G and WiFi to allow higher network coverage, availability and density. With its key differentiator being greater connectivity, 5G will act as an enabler for autonomous vehicles, machine-to-machine and machine-to-infrastructure services, and the Internet of Things. It will also penetrate the over-the-air (OTA) updates space as level 3 or level 4 automation requires a massive amount of data processing to occur in realtime.

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