Energy-intensive users’ costs still rising
A survey of energy-intensive users has found that the electricity portion of their total input costs has increased by an average of 9% to 18% between 2007 and 2012. Shaun Nel, project director and advisor of the Energy Intensive Users Group of Southern Africa, reveals...EnterpriseWorx brings cloud BI to Africa
Kognitio, which drives the convergence of big data, in-memory analytics and cloud computing, has partnered with South African business intelligence (BI), data management and software engineering specialist EnterpriseWorx to deliver the first cloud-based analytics...Lenovo to build African Android statue
Lenovo aims to become the first company to create an African Android statue, to mark the launch of the Lenovo A1000, A3000 and S6000 Android tablets in Africa. The most famous Android statues have been created by Google and are located at its corporate headquarters in...The new African drivers for Internet growth
African markets have far more technological sophistication and much higher expectations than most observers give them credit for. Research done by McKinsey Quarterly in October 2012 shows that African consumers are optimistic about the future, demand quality from...