Big data: 73% of corporates have invested – or plan to
Organisations don’t have a plan for what they’re going to do next. Picking everything isn’t a strategy. It indicates a fear of missing out on an opportunity yet to be defined. Also, there may be a certain amount of hubris at work. If organisations can ‘do big data’ on transactions and log data, they may assume they can also leverage more challenging data sources as easily
60% of family owned businesses struggle to find external finance to fund investment
A new KPMG International survey has found that 58% of family businesses are currently seeking external financing to fund their investment plans, but finding the right strategic investment partner can be challenging. While family businesses create more than 70% of...
First look of new MSN South Africa
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled a first look of the new MSN in South Africa. “To make MSN relevant in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, we have gone back to basics and redesigned the platform with that in mind. The new MSN brings together the world’s best media sources...
Growth of cloud and data centres in SA fuels need for appropriate storage
Demanding applications such as on-line transaction processing, high-performance database, analytics applications, multi-tenant server applications and virtualised servers require both high performance and high reliability.
Rubric donates translations of Ebola health information to Wikipedia
Partnerships on Wikipedia targets South Africans, with other languages to follow, as organisations work to improve access to information in West Africa. Rubric, a global language service provider, has donated its translation services to Wikimedia ZA to provide South...
Typical family home could contain more than 500 smart devices by 2022
Smart Homes to Offer Numerous Innovative Digital Business Opportunities The falling cost of adding sensing and communications to consumer products will mean that a typical family home, in a mature affluent market, could contain several hundred smart objects by 2022,...
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Solar-powered Internet for Hammanskraal
Samsung Electronics South Africa recently provided a Solar Powered Internet School (SPIS) to Hans Kekana Secondary School in the community of Hammanskraal. This forms part of Samsung’s citizenship programme, which seeks to bring educational content and interactive...
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Worldwide Phablet Shipments to Surpass Portable PCs in 2014 — and Tablets by 2015
According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device Tracker, worldwide phablet shipments (smartphones with screen sizes from 5.5 to less than 7 inches) will reach 175 million units worldwide in 2014,...
EMEA Market Confidence Will Boost Workstation Refreshments in H2 2014
Workstation shipments in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region increased 12.7% year on year in first half of 2014. Global research and advisory company IDC expects this healthy performance to continue in the second half of the year, with 11.2% growth...
POPI success depends on effective implementation and regulation
The industry remains abuzz with talk around the recently Gazetted Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act, yet the compliance rate of South Africa’s enterprises varies significantly. For Small Medium Enterprises (SME’s) the pace to become compliant is...
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