The low number of skills in the ICT sector is not unique to South Africa but the country could be doing a lot better than its counterparts in Africa if its government prioritised investment in ICT skills. That is according to the latest findings of the annual Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) ICT Skills …
Johannesburg – Data loss costs South African businesses over R3bn according to technology storage and hardware solutions firm EMC. Data loss involves computer information being destroyed by the likes of human error, file corruption or theft. And EMC this month has revealed its Data Protection Index which ranks 24 countries on the maturity of their …
A Pew report on the future of the internet tracks the worst-case scenarios First, the good news: a new Pew Research Center report on the future of the internet is mostly optimistic. The research agency canvassed 1,400 technology experts for its 2014 Future of the Internet report, and a majority believed the internet wouldn’t be significantly worse …
If 2013 was the year of “Big Data,” 2014 will be the year of the “Internet of Things.” The Internet of Things is the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with people, things, and the external environment. It includes everything from traffic sensors to refrigerators, thermostats, medical …