CIOs must digitally remaster organisations

Many industries have already been disrupted and redefined by digitalisation. As the digital revolution progresses, it will create an even greater need for new information management roles as business units rush to harness the digital opportunities of big data. Gartner...

R1m up for grabs in BBM recruitment drive

BlackBerry is actively looking to sign up South African BBM users, and will give away up to R1-million worth of prizes in its people-centric engagement programme called The Great South African BBM Recruitment Contest. This initiative, the first of its kind for the...

EMV card fraud is on the increase

Following some high-profile data breaches in 2014, US payment card network participants began heavily endorsing Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) chip cards as an important way to prevent damage from payment card breaches. However, criminals have taken advantage of...

SMMEs win as broadband costs plummet

The price of broadband Internet access for small- to medium-sized businesses is plummeting. According to Turrito Networks commercial director Louis Jardim, this is opening the way to more widespread investment in cloud applications and services. “The price of...

Handi’Educ app an innovation finalist

Team Handi’Educ from Senegal has emerged a semi-finalist in the Ericsson Innovation Awards representing sub-Saharan Africa. The innovative team, comprising three engineering students, developed an educative Web/mobile application to support handicapped children in a...