Firms should count the cost of piracy
The cost of maritime piracy is substantial and can cause significant damage to a company’s bottom line. According to comments recently made by Russian Navy Rear Admiral Vasily Lyashok, Somali pirates have become more flexible, adaptable and better organised and have...Mobility could improve GDP
A small improvement in labour mobility could have huge economic benefits for South Africa, actually driving GDP up by as much as 40%. A study commissioned by Citrix reveals that an increase of as little as 5% in the mobility of the workforce, information and...Security a concern in the cloud
Organisations are widely migrating to the cloud to gain competitive advantages around speed, agility and flexibility – in South Africa, nine out of 10 organisations are now involved in cloud computing – but they are having to invest heavily to ensure their security....Mobile video calling set to take off
The number of users of mobile video calling services is forecast to increase four-fold to almost 160-million by 2017, driven by improvements in both the user-interface and the underlying technology. A study by Juniper Research finds that advertising and freemium...