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3 things you should look at when hiring big data team members

You can’t rely entirely on a predetermined set of criteria when hiring members of your data team. That’s what makes it so difficult. On…

7 common misconceptions about database encryption

With technological advancements, we are easily able to store documents and records of medical information, tax, financial transactions and other important information electronically. Prior…

5 steps to creating the customer data platform your business needs

For most companies, storing, accessing, and using customer data is a massive headache. Duplication of efforts is almost inevitable, and people rarely feel confident…

Why chatbots won’t replace humans

Fear-mongering is everywhere, in every industry. And most recently, the contact centre has experienced its own dose of this with the announcement that Facebook…

Stopping the ‘killer robots’: Memeburn interviews AI specialist Toby Walsh

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a topic not many can say they’re experts in, and even fewer actually are. Enter Professor Toby Walsh, a world-renowned…

10 great pieces of business intelligence software

Business intelligence is based on understanding, visualizing and acting based on the data that you already have in your possession. So a good BI…

7 things you should know about staying a step ahead of information security threats

In the recent PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global State of Information Security Survey 2016, 41.44% of companies in South Africa and the Middle East reported that they…

The answer lies within you: PayPal’s Leblanc talks about the future of online security

Jonathan Leblanc, Head of Global Developer Advocacy at PayPal and Braintree, says that biometric security systems like fingerprint and eyeball scans are a thing…

Delivering against ‘always-on’ expectations with software-defined infrastructure

We’re living in an “always-on” age, where consumers, employees and business leaders alike expect 24/7 responsiveness and availability. Keeping an IT infrastructure performing at…

Could Stellar be the answer to enable financial inclusion around the globe?

When the internet first came round in the mid-nineties, people didn’t expect to see impactful tools like open-source libraries like Wikipedia or renting sites…

7 top tips for making it as a woman in tech

As a woman with more than 17 years of work experience in the challenging and constantly evolving tech industry, I have had my fair…

3 reasons you should be wary of free WiFi

Public Wi-Fi is almost everywhere nowadays. Coffee shops, libraries and even airports have installed hotspots to feed the growing demand for ubiquitous Wi-Fi. While…

Buy shoes with your watch: wearable tech’s transformative power on retail

The days of going online to buy the next addition to your wardrobe, a power bank for your laptop or even your groceries are…

Protect yourself, protect your business: get your website’s terms and conditions in order

Does your website protect you and your business? You may have a website for your business which is an important tool as you grow…

6 trends that will help accelerate Nigeria’s tech revolution #MWA2015

On Day One of Mobile West Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, a panel of five experts predicted what they believe are the next things that…

4 inventions that promise a healthier future for us all

Every single minute of our modern lives is marked by a different creation that was probably unimaginable about a handful of years ago. How…

Security is no longer just an IT concern, but is behaviour changing?

If — and it’s a big if — there is a positive to the spate of information security headlines, then it could well be…

Me&you mobile is South Africa’s first lean ecommerce mobile network

If you’ve been taking the Gautrain in Jozi recently or followed the #BeUnordinary hashtag, you’d have come across these orange banners with the winking…

It’s all about the tech, so quit asking me about my gender

The burning question that any female in tech is being asked at the moment is “How have you managed to cope as a female…

Cloud data services: new ways to create value

Cloud data services are growing extremely rapidly as users around the web utilize the cloud to improve internal sharing, data analysis and grow the…

BlackBerry acquires WatchDox to bolster enterprise security operations

BlackBerry has always excelled in providing its users with security and encryption capabilities and with this latest acquisition in its bag, the Canadian communications…

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