Absa aims to go fully digital
Absa plans to become a fully digital financial services provider, updating existing systems and developing new technologies that it hopes will transform the way South Africans bank, and set it apart from its competitors. Absa has committed to actively investing in IT...Microsoft debuts personal assistant
Microsoft has launched a new voice-activated personal digital assistant, Cortana, on Windows Phone 8.1. Unveiled by Joe Belfiore at the Microsoft Build developers’ conference yesterday, Cortana is being billed as the “world’s first truly personal digital assistant”,...Arctic ice is under pressure
The length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each decade, and an earlier start to this period is allowing the Arctic Ocean to absorb enough additional solar radiation in some places to melt as much as four feet of the Arctic ice cap’s...SA travellers miss home cooking
Aside from missing their families and homes, South African business travellers reveal that they are very much attached to their home cooking. The latest survey by Regus finds that home cooking (29%) is among the top three things South Africans miss when travelling for...Tech giants unlock big data
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have formed the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group focused on breaking down the barriers of technology silos to support better access to big data, with improved integration of the physical and digital...