Small businesses grow with technology
A common cause of business failure is over-investment in fixed assets: the high costs associated with purchasing, setting up and managing infrastructure, hardware and software can be daunting and detrimental to the cash required to fund the growth of the business....10m Galaxy S4s ship in a month
Global channel sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S4 have surpassed 10-million units, less than one month after its commercial debut. Launched globally on 27 April, and locally on the 25 April, the phone is estimated to be selling at a rate of four units per second. The Galaxy...Touchscreens on one in four PCs soon
Driven by falling prices and a major initiative from Intel, shipments of touch-enabled mobile PCs are expected to enjoy rapid growth in 2013 and the coming years, rising to about 25% of all notebooks by 2016. Global shipments of touchscreen-equipped notebook PCs will...Brighter future for people of the south
An optimistic future for sub-Saharan Africa, with higher levels of human development, is possible through greater engagement with other regions of the south, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator Helen Clark underlined during a side event at...MTN, Absa tackle SIM swaps
The recent spate of high-profile SIM swap fraud cases has prompted MTN and Absa executives to set up a task team to figure out ways to combat the problem. This team has initiated security measures to protect MTN customers, such as an improved authentication process...