by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has to a large extent served as a catalyst to accelerate the adoption of smart technologies in several industries and in social life. By Khaya Mbanga, group digital transformation and technology director at Servest Driven by...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
As the world continues to face the most challenging moment in recent human history due to Covid-19, technological change is accelerating to meet new and unprecedented demands. By Brad Pulford, executive director and GM: channel and distribution for Dell Technologies...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
As many of us are still working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, we are faced with this being our new normal indefinitely. Helene Vermaak, Business Director at corporate cultural experts The Human Edge says that after almost six-months since we had our lives...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The small to medium enterprise may not have a chief risk officer at the helm but there are other ways to manage risk right now. By Henk Olivier, MD of Ozone Information Technology Distribution Risk. It’s become the buzzword of 2020 thanks to a global pandemic, a...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Features
The gazetting of the long-overdue draft policy on rapid deployment of electronic communications networks and facilities is good news for a South African economy that shrank 51 percent in the second quarter of 2020. That’s according to the Internet Service...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Features
Anyone can use cash to transact – important in a country where one in five people do not have a bank account. Cash doesn’t discriminate according to whether you own a smartphone, can get a card from a nearby banking branch or have an ID book for a FICA or Know Your...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Features
As Africa works towards negotiating and ratifying the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) next year, there are some challenges around the practical implementation of the agreement. Standard Bank Head of Trade Product Management Kevin Holmes points out...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Features
Electric vehicles are expected to include solid-state batteries as an innovative approach, according to IDTechEx’s research report “Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2020-2030: Technology, Patents, Forecasts, Players”. Since commercialized in 1991,...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Features
The recent Experian data breach saw close to 800 000 businesses along with over 24 million South Africans’ information left on the internet exposed to cybercriminals. After Experian’s earlier announcement that the stolen data had been retrieved and accounted for, the...
by Kathy Gibson | Sep 18, 2020 | Featured Story, Features
Standing beside a rutted red dirt road at about 5 000 feet up in the jungled mountains of northern Rwanda, Intel’s Adam Schafer explains in four words why he and a teammate had traveled from Oregon to this especially remote part of Central Africa. “We’re here to...
