Retail consumers choose privacy
Contrary to popular belief, only a minority of consumers are openly disposed to the “give to get” exchange of private information need for retailers to give relevant guidance to customers. New research shows that 14% are privacy spenders and 15% are open...Enslin moves up in SAP shuffle
South Africa’s Robert Enslin has been appointed to SAP’s executive board, along with Bernd Leukert, as the company announces that Dr Vishal Sikka, executive board member for products and innovation, is to step down for personal reasons, effective immediately....Oliver Fortuin heads to BT
IBM and HP veteran Oliver Fortuin has taken up the reins at BT, heading its operations in sub-Saharan Africa. Fortuin will be in charge of growing BT’s business and leading the regional management team. Best known as country manager of both HP and IBM, and a long-time...NASA finds new brown dwarf
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest “brown dwarf” known – a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth’s North Pole. Images from...New record for nano-engineering
National Geographic Kids has claimed its ninth Guinness World Records title for the Smallest Magazine Cover, using patented technology from IBM, at the US Science & Engineering Festival in Washington. To create the record-setting cover, IBM scientists invented a...