April 2, 2019 •
Retail, Top Stories •
Fundi Maseko •
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Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have the potential to shake up the customer experience by individualising retailers’ offers and enabling customers to visualise products in different settings. By 2020, 100 million consumers will shop in...
The global tech revolution is greatly changing the way we work in every sector. EdTech, which merges innovation with teaching, has made education more accessible and comprehensive across the world. Most recently we’ve seen that established schools have...
On Thursday, 17 January Amazon announced plans to hold a conference open to the public on robotics, space and artificial intelligence, as well as to discuss future applications of emerging technologies. There’s a reason why Amazon may want to bring...
The use of virtual assistants (VAs) in the workplace is growing. According to predictions by Gartner, Inc by the year 2021, 25 percent of digital workers will use a virtual employee assistant (VEA) on a daily basis. This will be up from less than 2 percent...
January 9, 2019 •
Education, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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Immersive learning will fundamentally change the way young South Africans absorb information, and forms an integral part of the learning revolution the country needs to embark on to keep up with the demands of the future. According to Marco Rosa, managing...
December 29, 2018 •
Features •
Darryl Linington •
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For companies looking to fully embrace the evolution of customer experience (CX), a delicate balancing act must be achieved between adopting the right technologies and engineering the right business strategies. The solution is an integrated customer...
September 4, 2018 •
Features •
NetAdmin •
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Despite all the incredible ways in which technology has advanced and transformed our world in recent years, the way we interact with it – the human interface of technology – has advanced surprisingly little. The keyboard I’m writing this article on...
Online gaming company, NetDragon Websoft has revealed its newly established footprint in Africa. NetDragon’s senior management team recently visited Nigeria to explore the opportunity to support the country’s digitalisation in education with the...
Dimension Data released a list of the company’s top IT predictions for 2018. Blockchain, together with artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality, have the potential to deliver disruptive outcomes and reshape...
Technology predictions foretell a future world where virtual reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and automation are the norm – in both our personal and business lives. These technologies, among others, are set to completely change the way...
The healthcare industry is witnessing unprecedented transformation, it is estimated that by 2020 healthcare in Africa will be needing more than $25 billion in physical assets. Technology is flipping the script when it comes to delivering healthcare solutions....
Oculus, Facebook’s Virtual Reality (VR) division, is looking to provide a new immersive approach to healthcare education. Oculus advanced this approach by recently partnering with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) to build a VR simulation that...
Yesterday at Computex 2017, Dell revealed two new all-in-ones (AIO) and a new gaming desktop to round out its popular Inspiron PC product line. The new products will be available starting today on Dell.com and worldwide in the coming weeks. Dell’s new...
Facebook has tasked developers to contribute to the augmented reality image filters and interactive experiences to its new Camera Effects platform. The Camera Effects platform is designed to be compatible with future augmented reality hardware, such as...
Unfortunately for telecoms companies, there are only a handful of times when they are front of mind for their customers – when their core service is delivering a poor user experience (especially when friends on other networks have full reception or 4G in...
February 17, 2017 •
Retail •
NetAdmin •
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Virtual reality technology makes a lot of sense for online retailers but better customer understanding is needed to make it more than a curiosity Online retailers have led the charge when it comes to the early adoption of technology to enable better customer...
