IoT & Smart Cities: Vital, with profound benefits

IoT & Smart Cities: Vital, with profound benefits

By Reshaad Sha, CEO, SqwidNet Along with the rest of the world, South Africa is in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, in which the smart use of information and technology is reshaping societies. One of the most apparent ways in which this is happening can...
What’s driving smart home trends?

What’s driving smart home trends?

Security, ecosystem-based services and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to offer personalised experience will be among the five main trends that will dominate the development of smart home products in 2017, IDC forecasts. Energy efficiency and entertainment...
How smart design can solve e-waste challenge

How smart design can solve e-waste challenge

By Ed Boyd, Senior Vice President, Experience Design Group, Dell Global concern about the mountains of e-waste generated every year has been rising for quite some time – and with good reason: In 2014, the United Nations estimated that humans produced 41.8 million...
Report Back: All the news from SAP TechEd

Report Back: All the news from SAP TechEd

Kathy Gibson attended SAP TechEd in Barcelona, where leadership, HANA2, analytics, an Apple-SAP partnership and IoT were announced and discussed. See all the information that came out of the conference. How to do digital transformation Digital transformation shouldn’t...
How can IT deliver on business needs?

How can IT deliver on business needs?

Kathy Gibson reported from IDC Cloud and Data Centre Roadshow in Rosebank – Whether CIOs acknowledge it or not, the proliferation of smartphones is having a fundamental impact on their IT planning, and they are having to rethink how they deliver applications. Today,...