Browsing: Opinion

By Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College and Anna Shubina, Dartmouth College It’s troubling to think that at any moment you might open…

By Marwan Elnakat, digital banking solutions director for the CISMEA region at Gemalto With Capitec’s latest trading update making a…

The use of drones or remotely piloted aircraft systems is forecast to grow exponentially. Globally the drone business is proving…

By David Glance, University of Western Australia In response to millions of people fleeing Florida in the face of Hurricane…

by Ben Dickson This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try) to disambiguate the jargon…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly coming of age, as business leaders increasingly grasp the immense potential of “smart” machines and…

The IoT ecosystem is expected to experience the largest growth in the history of humankind. With a current market valuation…

by Ben Dickson Since their first appearance decades ago, chatbots have come a long way thanks to leaps in natural…

By Vino Govender CM (SA) | DFA, Executive: Product Innovation and Marketing The closure of the 159-year-old “Harrods of South…

By James Harland, RMIT University Scientists who build artificial intelligence and autonomous systems need a strong ethical understanding of the…

Entrepreneur Paula Sartini would love to see users of search giant Google and other platforms use her company’s solutions to…

By Hemkumar Balaraman, project manager at Africa, Wipro Limited Recent years have seen South African banks compete in a key…

By Reshaad Sha, CEO at SqwidNet The rise of the Internet of Things and other mobile technologies offers humanity the…

By Lisa Michaels After many large businesses around the world became involved in data breach scandals, many other businesses of all…

By Vian Chinner, Xineoh CEO Imagine a time in the not-too-distant past, when our consumption of media was entirely dictated…

By Davina Myburgh, director of Core Credit for TransUnion Africa Biometrics may at the outset seem like a space-age, technology…

Teddy Daka, the boss of Ansys, has reasons to feel he is on top of the world. When Daka took…

By Ronnie Moodley, Executive at IBM Systems South Africa The data that resides on a mobile phone is better protected…

By Henning Melber These days the African middle class is widely discussed as a phenomenon considered indicative of social change. But…

By Sundaram Mahalingam, Senior Technical Architect – IoT delivery at Prodapt and Vishwa Nigam, Manager – Business Analysis & Insights at Prodapt The…

South Africa’s big four mobile operators – Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom – are spending more than R32 billion…

South African and Nigerian authorities should hang their heads in shame for allowing the ludicrously high mobile telecoms roaming charges suffered by…

by Ben Dickson Where will humans fit in a world where robots outsmart them? This is the focus of a heated…

By Teddy Daka, Ansys CEO Anyone who studies the economics of our continent soon stumbles upon some well-documented facts about…

On the same day former Vodacom executive, Rob Shuter, presented his maiden financial results for his present employer MTN,  Treasury…