SA hosts ACE 2013
The Airport Cities World Conference and Exhibition (ACE) 2013 is to take place on African soil for the first time in its 11-year history. London-based event organiser UBM Live has announced that the milestone event will take place in the City of Ekurhuleni in April....Mobility could improve GDP
A small improvement in labour mobility could have huge economic benefits for South Africa, actually driving GDP up by as much as 40%. A study commissioned by Citrix reveals that an increase of as little as 5% in the mobility of the workforce, information and...Security a concern in the cloud
Organisations are widely migrating to the cloud to gain competitive advantages around speed, agility and flexibility – in South Africa, nine out of 10 organisations are now involved in cloud computing – but they are having to invest heavily to ensure their security....Mobile video calling set to take off
The number of users of mobile video calling services is forecast to increase four-fold to almost 160-million by 2017, driven by improvements in both the user-interface and the underlying technology. A study by Juniper Research finds that advertising and freemium...Customer IDs move to social
By the end of 2015, 50% of new retail customer identities will be based on social network identities, up from less than 5% today, according to Gartner. Along with federation technologies and mobile computing, social identity adoption will have a major impact on the...