by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
In June 2021 the village Lytton in Canada, experienced its hottest day ever reaching 49.6C, way above its previous record of 45C. Shortly after, this same village was destroyed in a massive wildfire. This excessive heat was not only responsible for many deaths and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The online retail industry is experiencing an unprecedented boom, with indications that the sector was worth R30-billion in 2020, a full third higher than estimates just three years ago. This means retailers of all shapes and sizes need to ensure their systems and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit South Africa’s small business sector hard and there are grim statistics to bear this out. By Ameen Hassen, head: shari’ah banking at Standard Bank Group Those statistics will not be repeated here. After all, if you are a small business...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Trends and Analysis
More than 50% of IT teams believe that employees have bad security habits. Habits they’ve developed since moving their offices into the home and that put their information, systems and employers at risk. The statistic comes from the Tessian Back to Work Security...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Featured Story, Features
By Kathy Gibson – In this age of digital transformation, it’s sometimes hard to remember that the world wasn’t always connected. But it wasn’t that long ago that South Africans went online for the first time. In January 1995, IT trade newspaper Computing SA ran...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Thought Leadership
By Kathy Gibson – Back in the early 1990s, the world was just starting to go online, and a spirit of innovation and sense of possibility was the order of the day. Anthony Gerada, one of the pioneers of the Internet market in South Africa, shares some memories of...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Thought Leadership
By Greg de Chasteauneuf – Since its arrival in South Africa in 1995, the internet has brought about significant economic and social change. From cost and speed to accessibility and usage, it has fundamentally transformed the country and has empowered millions of...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Thought Leadership
There appears to be a widely accepted suggestion that the so-called “new normal” – whereby the enforced regime of working from home instead of an office, attending virtual meetings, conducting school classes or tertiary education lectures remotely via online...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Thought Leadership
Some 15 months after we entered our first lockdown there were signs of a light at the end of the tunnel insofar as vaccinations gathering steam and an easing of restrictions. That situation has, unfortunately, changed somewhat as the unpredicatbility of this pandemic...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 30, 2021 | Thought Leadership
By Graham Duxbury – New technical regulations for 2022 reintroduce ground effect aerodynamics to Formula One for the first time since the concept was banned in the 1980s. In terms of the latest rules, the cars’ bodywork will be simplified, making the underside –...
