Telkom announces Mega Challenge winners
Tabitha Bailey has been named as the top innovator of Telkom’s Open Innovation Mega Challenge for her cloud-based education platform concept. Bailey was awarded prize money of R120 000 and a free Telkom DSL service for 24 months for her winning idea. The challenge,...NASA codeathon tackles climate
NASA and space agencies around the world are preparing for the third annual International Space Apps Challenge on 12 and 13 April. Participants will develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data visualisation and platform solutions that could contribute to...Local solution to cut procurement fraud
SAS Institute has launched a locally-developed procurement fraud solution that uses analytics to help public- and private-sector organisations to detect fraudulent or wasteful expenditure. Figures show that fraud is rampant around the world, as well as in South...Intel aims to re-invent the desktop PC
Intel has unveiled a set of roadmap enhancements, platform features and software partnerships to help drive the re-invention of desktop computing. New form factors such as mini PCs and desktop all-in-ones (AIOs) are driving excitement within the category, and Intel is...Big data key to reducing fraud
Companies are missing opportunities to mine big data in order to reduce fraud risk and improve anti-bribery compliance. EY’s 2014 global forensic data analytics survey, Big Risks Require Big Data Thinking, highlights that 63% of senior executives surveyed at leading...