by Allan Davison | Jan 14, 2016 | Features, Uncategorized
The start of a New Year is always a great time to re-evaluate your business plans and operations, and ask yourself if there’s anything you could do better. By Daryl Blundell, MD of Sage SSB (Start-up and Small Businesses) Accounting South & Southern Africa,...
by Allan Davison | Jan 14, 2016 | Features, Uncategorized
Juniper’s latest research, “Crowdfunding: Strategies and Impacts for Technology Markets 2016-2020”, estimates that investments made in technology via crowdfunding platforms are set to increase sevenfold from an estimated $1,1-billion in 2015 to...
by Allan Davison | Dec 9, 2015 | Features, Uncategorized
Smart commercial buildings will lead, with 518-million connected things in use in 2016 Gartner estimates that 1,6-billion connected things will be used by smart cities in 2016, an increase of 39% from 2015 (see Table 1). Gartner defines a smart city as an urbanised...
by Allan Davison | Dec 9, 2015 | Features, Uncategorized
Deloitte’s annual 2015 Year-end Holiday Survey report explores the shopping plans of South Africans for the 2015 holidays. Consumer perceptions about South Africa’s economic outlook Three in five South African respondents have a negative view of the...
by Allan Davison | Dec 9, 2015 | Features, Uncategorized
The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to revolutionise the way in which we interact with technology. While connecting machines or devices to the Internet might sound arbitrary, the impact this will have on us is akin to the arrival of the Internet. By Frank Rizzo Over...
by Allan Davison | Dec 9, 2015 | Features, Uncategorized
Paul Maritz has been one of the prime movers in the modern IT industry. He helped to guide Microsoft in the client/server years and piloted both EMC and VMware through some of their most active periods before forming Pivotal Software. As an African himself (he went to...
