Features - Channelwise

Entrepreneurship can lift more South Africans out of poverty

Sep 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship is often positioned as a solution for South Africa’s unemployment crisis, yet it will only make a real difference to job creation and the country’s economy if larger organisations and government give newly-minted entrepreneurs the support they need to...

Why terms and conditions are important for the business

Aug 21, 2018

Terms and conditions are often overlooked or not drafted in detail when entering into a business agreement with potential customers. One would think that all entrepreneurs and business owners would always insist on signing proper agreements and read the ones that come...

African consumers in mobile mindshift

Aug 21, 2018

Today’s consumers rely on their mobile devices not just for communication but to perform a growing range of functions online; provided they get a seamlessend-to-end experience. By Sherry Zameer, senior vice-president: IoT solutions for CISMEA Region at Gemalto...

Adapting workspaces to new ‘personas’

Aug 21, 2018

The workplace is progressively becoming more about how people connect digitally, and less so about the bricks and mortar that make up an office building. By Joanne Shields, head of operations at BT in Africa The latest BT CEO survey highlighted that digital...

Skin patches: the ultimate wearable

Aug 21, 2018

Electronic skin patches could well be described as the ultimate wearable electronic devices. They deploy electronic components, including sensors and actuators with appropriate processing, energy storage and communication, directly onto the body, typically attached...

Specialised mobile form factors offer new opportunities

Aug 21, 2018

Mobile computer unit shipments in South Africa continue to be driven by all-purpose, workhorse notebooks, but resellers have opportunities to grow margins by seeding demand for more specialised form factors among their customer bases. This is the word from Mark...

How to manage the ever-evolving mobility challenge

Aug 21, 2018

Technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, transforming the way people work. By Ronald Ravel, director: B2B South Africa at Toshiba South Africa The ongoing rise of mobile working is one of the most notable results of how this trend is impacting the professional...

When women become their own worst enemies

Aug 7, 2018

Throughout history we’ve seen women who stood out above the rest. They excelled against all odds in a society or a sector which did not acknowledge their contribution, whether in politics or business. By Dr Renate Scherrer‚ MD of JvR Consulting Psychologists, and Dr...

Cloud-to-things integration with OpenFog standard

Aug 7, 2018

The OpenFog Consortium’s OpenFog Reference Architecture for fog computing has been adopted as an official standard by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). The new standard, known as IEEE 1934, relies on the reference architecture as a universal technical...

Improved switch market bodes well for year ahead

Aug 7, 2018

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $6,29-billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18), a healthy increase of 10.9% year over year, while routers saw $3,31-billion in revenue in 1Q18, a 1,4% decrease. These rates are according to...

SSD gains in popularity, grows shipments

Jul 24, 2018

The market for solid state drives (SSD) expected to gain traction over the coming years. This is due mainly to the benefits that SSD has over hard drives (HDD) such as high reliability and performance efficiency which are seeing the take-up of SSD in the data centre...

Warning signs that it is time to replace your SSD

Jul 24, 2018

While solid state drives (SSD) are more stable than hard drives, age can eventually cause them to fail. It is therefore important to know what signs to keep an eye out for, which could signal an impending failure. According to Tony Yu, South African country manager at...

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