by Dianne Bayley | Oct 26, 2016 | Features
From IT-Online The massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that occurred in late October 2016 highlighted a fundamental issue concerning the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT): are there enough standards, checks and balances to secure the millions of...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 25, 2016 | Features
This glimpse of the future was crafted by Stuart Cassie Over 2400 years ago, Plato told a story of a group of people chained up in a cave facing a blank wall. His famed ‘Allegory of the Cave’ depicted a world where a group of prisoners was entertained only by shadows...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 25, 2016 | Report-back
WMWorld 2016 Barcelona: IT-Online’s Publisher Kathy Gibson joined VMworld 2016 to report on four full days of innovation designed to accelerate the business journey to a software-defined business, from mobile devices to the data center and the cloud. The...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 24, 2016 | Features
By Johan Walters, C2C Labs Augmented and mixed realities are significantly boosting marketing departments’ efficacy. But AR is now boldly venturing into the rest of the workplace. From HR to R&D departments, the business case for AR is not only compelling, but in...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 24, 2016 | Security and Legal
By Heinrich Louw, Mark Morgan and Louis Botha, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr On 19 October 2016, the South African Revenue Services (SARS) issued a binding private ruling (BPR 253) which deals with the donations tax consequences in respect of a transaction which has the...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 24, 2016 | Workplace 2020
Customers, partners and employees choose to engage with companies that are relevant and speak the same language as them – but what makes you relevant to the generation that has everything?According to Dr Eugene Wessels, General Manager of Data Analytics and...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 24, 2016 | Workplace 2020
By Rhys Evans, MD of ALCO-Safe When it comes to breathalysers, there are many misconceptions that exist (and persist) about what these tests can and can’t do that have led to the belief that it is possible to beat the breathalyser. This is something often attempted...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 24, 2016 | Report-back
Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Connect in Shanghai – Intel and Huawei recently signed a strategic partnership to drive the global adoption and standardisation of 5G by creating an industry reference architecture. The two companies are collaborating on a number of...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 5, 2016 | Sustainability
By Louise Steenekamp, Director – Energy & Natural Resources – South Africa, Wipro Limited and Gavin Holme, Business Head – Africa, Wipro Limited A raft of highly-matured existing technologies are now, available to miners in their quest to...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 5, 2016 | Features
Mobile banking is no longer a “business opportunity” for banks. It’s an imperative. With over 1 billion users already transacting across the globe in 2015 (according to IDC), demand is set to continue to grow – cutting across both developed and developing economies....
