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Top 5 steps to ensure your IoT strategy is a success
Whether it’s a smart scale in our home, which advises us how to adapt our eating and exercise regimes, or a smart shelf within a retail store that is able to ‘restock’ itself using sensors which automatically trigger stock orders as…
Ambition and partnership key to driving smart city adoption
Despite negative perceptions around the rise in use of automation, artificial intelligence and other technologies, innovative implementation of ICT can not only improve the quality of life across a broad range of factors, but also improve workforce efficiency, and create…
Top 5 ways artificial intelligence can support your business
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has for decades been the subject of science fiction and fantasy films. But we’ve come a long way since ‘Skynet’. Only a few months ago, Facebook deactivated a chatbot project, as the bots had developed their own language…
Multichoice Nigeria refutes Pay-Per-View rumours
According to a report by Nigerian Communications Week, Multichoice Nigeria, a Pay-TV service provider, came out on Monday 25 September 2017 to squash reports that they were looking to implement a Pay-Per-View model in the country. Earlier this month, Vanguard reported…
How digital transformation will impact the future of insurance
The insurance industry is facing its very own Kodak moment. 40 years after the once heart-warming 1970s ad slogan became part of popular culture, it now reminds one more of the company’s spectacular failure to act in the face of…
South African companies should view data governance regulations as an opportunity
When Tim Berners-Lee declared data to be the “new raw material of the 21st century” back in 2011, he was perfectly describing the direction many economies were heading in – from industry to insights and intelligence. But in the six…
Wireless Wayfinding: Roadmap for the aspiring smart city
We now find ourselves steeped in the fourth Industrial Revolution – an era that could potentially see every one of us, and every piece of machinery we use, seamlessly networked together. Every aspect of our lives, from our classroom experiences…
Gartner Symposium 2017: Deep learning driving AI development
During a media roundtable at Gartner Symposium 2017, hosted in Cape Town 18-21 September, Alex Linden – Research Vice President at Gartner – revealed that deep learning, a variation of machine learning (ML), is currently the major driver toward artificial…
Gartner Symposium 2017: The changing role of the CIO
Research firm, Gartner, revealed the results of their 2018 CIO Agenda survey at the 2017 Gartner Symposium on Tuesday 19 September 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. The survey revealed insight into how the role of a CIO is rapidly…
How new IT models are changing the IT skills landscape and internal IT
The data centre is in a period of rapid IT transformation as businesses are increasingly seeking competitive advantages in this digital era. At the centre of these IT transformations lie converged infrastructure (CI), hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and “software-defined” environments to…
It’s time to bring more African countries into the digital economy
Since 2009, the African telecoms industry has come a long way in connecting people and businesses to reliable, affordable and fast Internet services. The new submarine cables that started to land off the continent’s east and west coasts from 2009…
Kenya’s new election date set to change
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) will potentially set a new date for Kenya’s elections, which were initially scheduled for 17 October 2017. This comes after the two main political parties in Kenya refused to agree on the past…
SD-WAN: An answer to improving network performance
“The consistent, reliable, low latency and, above all, fast performance of an organisation’s network is a non-negotiable in the era of digitisation,” states Anton Jacobsz, managing director at value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited. Jacobsz is, in particular, referring to total software-defined…
Call centre technology is a critical business function
According to a recent KPMG analysis, growth and technology are two of the biggest challenges affecting the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with 70% finding that technology has the biggest impact on their roles. They are expected to research ingenuity and…
Mellanox InfiniBand central to the growth of South Africa’s CHPC
Nearly two years have passed since The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) chose Mellanox FDR InfiniBand to assist it in its goal of providing high-end computing resources to the South…
Nigeria: NCC seizes pirated works worth N926 million in Lagos
Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) revealed on Thursday 14 September 2017 that the organisation has seized pirated materials worth an estimated N926 million ($2.572 million) in the last eight months in the Lagos metropolis alone. This is according to a report…
