A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

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...

Massive growth in cyberattacks during pandemic

There's been a 48% surge in cyberattack volumes globally, since March 2020, with sudden increases in cyberattack volumes corresponding to spikes in Covid-19 infection rates in April and October. In sub-Saharan Africa there was a 41% increase in cyberattacks from 2019...

Covid-19 drives mobile money uptake

The GSMA's annual "State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money" reveals a dramatic acceleration in mobile transactions during the Covid-19 pandemic as lockdown restrictions limited access to cash and financial institutions. The report found that the number of...

Gap between customer, employee experience

Providing a consistent experience across multiple engagement channels is a key focus for companies. It is also a way to ensure that employees, business partners and suppliers have a unified view of interactions. Customer experience has been the most visible and important “experience” initiative to date. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) 2015 Experiences survey, 81% of respondents use customer satisfaction surveys to measure the customer experience with their company.

BCX tops in mining, manufacturing awards

Business Connexion has been named as one of the Top 5 Wonderware Top System Integrator Award winners for the third year in a row. The X-Change User Conference, hosted by Wonderware and Schneider Electric, has established itself over the past two decades as the...

Tablets take off for commercial use

The latest International Data Corporation (IDC) study on tablets in enterprises reveals that tablet penetration is accelerating in companies in the UK, France and Germany, and is expected to reach more than 15% of the total client device base by 2018, up from 6% in...

Mega cities project gets off the ground

The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements has invited requests for proposal (RFPs) from the built industry to contribute in the creation of new housing mega projects in Gauteng.“The Department has initiated two processes to invite private sector companies to...

Tablet sales slip in 2015

After years of posting successive gains, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market recorded its first ever year-on-year decline in Q1 2015, with shipments to the region declining 5,8% to 3,83-million units. That's according to the latest market insights by...

Oracle results hit by strong US dollar

Oracle has reported that revenues for the last quarter of its 2015 financial year were down 5%, with revenues for the full year essentially unchanged. The company reports that results were significantly impacted by the strengthening of the US dollar compared to...

Telkom consolidates mobile, Internet bundles

Telkom is consolidating Telkom Mobile bundles and All Network bundles into one set of pre-paid options that will provide national coverage for subscribers. The packages, available from today (22 June 2015), will provide consumers the benefit of national network...

E-commerce set to boom in SA

Besides 2014 being a tough year for online businesses, there has been an increase in query volumes for South Africa of 37% - and increases of 49% in Nigeria and 33% in Kenya. This is according to Nicholas Groove, business development manager at ImproWeb, sister...

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