Africa ripe for e-commerce expansion

Africa offers enormous growth potential for e-retailers, given that online shopping is in its infancy in the region. This is according to Sumesh Rahavendra, head of marketing for DHL Express sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), who says the recently released Shop the World!...

HP takes 3D printing plunge

HP has introduced its vision for the future of computing and 3D printing with its new Blended Reality ecosystem. The ecosystem is underpinned by two key advancements: the HP Multi Jet Fusion, a technology engineered to resolve critical gaps in the combination of...

SA’s SMEs confident, willing to take risks

In order to address the issues of inequality and poverty, we need to grow businesses – especially small businesses. With the NDP calling for 11-million jobs to come from the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, this area of business is particularly...

Microsoft enters wearables, health markets

Microsoft has entered the wearables market with the Microsoft Band, which links to both the Microsoft Health cloud platform and to a user’s phone and other computing devices, via the Cortana intelligent digital assistant. Microsoft Band’s continuous heart rate...

App use grows with screen size

Larger smartphone screen sizes strongly correlate with a longer time spent using apps. This emerged from research by HIS and Mobidia, which analysed the impact of smartphone screen size and resolution on popular mobile applications usage, including social, chat,...

ITSM remains stuck in the IT back room

At least 55% of IT professionals are unable to leverage their ITSM solution beyond IT processes, according to a survey by cloud-based IT service and asset management supplier EasyVista. At the same time, if they could extend their ITSM to non-IT functions, 59% of the...