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Two essential tools for your business toolkit

Organising two important areas of your business can be made a lot easier by using a couple of simple but powerful tools. Effective Leads…

Google wins landmark legal battle against Oracle

After almost four years of legal wrangling, a US jury has ruled in favour of Google in its long-running dispute with Oracle. The jury…

Jonathan Margolis: the harsh truth about tech predictions [EMEA Atmosphere]

Nothing makes people quite as uppity about the future as technology. And few things get as much attention as a high-profile tech personality making…

Foxconn replaces 60 000 workers with robots in China

Foxconn, the manufacturing company behind the likes of the iPhone and PlayStation 4, has replaced 60 000 of its workers with robots, according to…

The network of the future is all about context [EMEA Atmosphere]

Technology is changing everything. As a reader of this site, you know that all too well. But what you might not know is that…

Former Konga VP Gabriel Gab-Umoden on his latest venture, Legend.ng

Gabriel Gab-Umoden isn’t new in Nigeria’s tech space. Having served as a Vice President at ecommerce company Konga, Gabriel knew what the potentials of…

We’re in the era of the intelligent workspace [EMEA Atmosphere]

By now, pretty much everyone in the business world understands that people want their device experiences at work to match their device experiences at…

8 challenges every IT consulting firm faces

Consulting is a service business. And because it’s a service business, it doesn’t quite receive the same amount of admiration or recognition as a…

Meet ArachnobeeA, the world’s first Zero G drone

This year NASA, in collaboration with various other Space Agencies, held its fourth annual International Space Apps Challenge in Limassol, Cyprus. The event presented…

3 tips for keeping Microsoft SharePoint relevant in the era of the cloud

Clunky spreadsheets. Cluttered network drives. Unmanageable mailboxes. Issues that many businesses have in common. It’s also important to point out that email, once seen…

Mobility, Internet of Things, ERP = the need to invest in business systems

The enterprise resource planning (ERP) landscape is going through a period of accelerated change as end-user organisations and ERP vendors alike prepare for a…

These are the legacy issues preventing banks from moving to digital

The legacy issues preventing banks from making the move to digital are predominantly related to skills, capacity, systems and strategies. These are all necessary…

How can we narrow the ‘achievement employment gap’ among SA’s tech talent?

We’ve all heard about the IT skills shortage. We also know that we need to encourage students into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)…

Analytics without borders: why SA businesses need to share data

Analytics (or rather deriving insights from data) is an emerging field in South Africa. Due to differing strategic views, lack of infrastructure, or lack…

6 ½ Considerations for securing the home office

Telework predates the BYOD phenomenon by decades. Despite Yahoo!’s move to the contrary, many organizations are shrinking their office spaces and expanding their employees’…

Google’s Project Soli is an innovation from the distant future brought to the present

Google’s ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) department has been working on something very special. Called Project Soli, the technology could completely change how we…

3 massive technologies set to define the next few years

Last year saw some major technological advances in industry and further developments on the smart factory front. It was a year that demonstrated 3D…

On-demand on the rise, further down the retailing rabbit hole we go

As the customer, I want you to kick-back and initiate spectator mode, which is when you step back and watch the chaos in front…

Just how big a threat is cybercrime to South Africa?

The speed of technological change is leaving gaping holes in highly sensitive company IT infrastructure. These vulnerabilities are being targeted by cybercriminals at an…

10 strategic technology trends governments need to be paying attention to

Earlier this week, we reported on a partnership between the city of Accra and Microsoft and about how this partnership will ease the backlog…

Vendors shipped 11.4m wearables in the first quarter of 2015

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), vendors shipped a total of 11.4-million wearables in the first quarter of 2015. Fitbit shipped the most…

The security benefits mean you’re mad not to join the as-a-service revolution

It’s easy to get lost in the IT acronyms being thrown around. The tech world rarely slows down for long enough to give us…

DDoS attacks: 5 strategies for defending your network

DoS attacks have evolved in strategy and tactics to become a resounding threat to businesses anywhere. Hackers design Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed…

New Ookla Insights Show MTN Holding Mobile Speed Lead as Vodacom Claims 5G Advantage

Motorola and Swarovski Bring Foldable Luxury to South Africa with the Brilliant Collection

Sanlam Fintech Expands Its AI Coach to Tackle South Africa’s Medical Access Gap

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel