IBM predicts steampunk trend

IBM predicts steampunk trend

Based on an analysis of more than half a million public posts on message boards, blogs, social media sites and news sources, IBM predicts that “steampunk”, a sub-genre inspired by the clothing, technology and social mores of Victorian society, will be a...

E-commerce gets back to basics

As shoppers become increasingly connected, online retailers in 2013 will get back to basics, focusing on strategies and tactics to improve the customer experience and increase Web conversion and loyalty across all devices. According to the 2013 Shop.org/Forrester...

SMS trends for 2013

2013 will be a pivotal year for the South African SMS industry as the issue of interconnect fees is resolved, and mobile networks charge each other for terminating application-to-person (A2P) SMS messages, doing away with the vagaries of the gentlemen’s agreement...

Stability, accessibility key in 2013

In 2013, IT buyers will be looking for stability and ways to prepare for the next five years in their business cycle. A new report from Ovum looks at the phenomenon of IT services bundling and how it will influence the IT market in 2013. “The fact that we live in very...

BI trends in retrospect

At the beginning of 2012 the research firms and pundits proposed numerous trends for the business intelligence (BI) world, says Julian Field, marketing director at knowledge integration Dynamics (KID).  Statistical analytics, BI in the cloud, mobile BI, in-memory...