Internet of Things to disrupt supply chain

The future explosion in the number of intelligent devices will create a network rich with information that allows supply chains to assemble and communicate in new ways. Gartner forecasts that a 30-fold increase in internet-connected physical devices by 2020 will...

MTN scrambles to keep its lines open

MTN was caught unawares by yesterday’s power cuts, resulting in service disruptions, but the telco is taking steps to keep its services running. The company states that MTN services were affected in certain areas around the country yesterday when load shedding...

Disruption will go beyond IT, says Gartner

Gartner’s top predictions for IT organisations and IT users for 2014 combine several disruptive topics – digital industrial revolution, digital business, smart machines and the Internet of things – that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT...

Cloud, mobile to drive disruption

Cloud and mobile are expected to continue to gain momentum as the most disruptive technologies in consumer and business markets over the next three years, according to the Global Technology Innovation survey by KPMG. The technology leaders also expect biometrics and...
Korea could shake the world

Korea could shake the world

What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70% of the world’s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market? The answer would be chaos, with the worldwide...