Freight looting a growing concern
The escalating voracity of freight looting — the theft of goods off the back of fleet vehicles, sometimes while moving was highlighted in a recent Carte Blanche insert. This criminal act has massive...
View ArticleTop game changers n 2018
Gordon Thomson, MD of digital acceleration: EMEAR at Cisco, shares what he thinks are the top tech trends for digital leaders to invest in next year. * Put data to work – Organisations now collect more...
View ArticleTFG expands Collect In Store service
The Foschini Group (TFG) has rolled out its Collect In Store service for online shoppers across the country, taking the number of participating stores to 184, and now offers the service entirely free,...
View ArticleKeep children safe online
This festive season many youngsters will be receiving phones or tablets from Santa. In today’s technology dominated world, it’s quite normal to be concerned with your child’s safety online. The digital...
View ArticleFive common archiving mistakes
With the rise in ransomware, phishing and other cyberattacks, email archiving has never been more critical. A secure archive is the most important repository of corporate memory, and key insight and...
View ArticleCustomer service on a shoestring
The economic climate in South Africa can be comfortably described as volatile and, finding ways to entice new customers has never been more important. The cost of capturing customer attention in an...
View ArticleAvoid festive season financial mistakes
Have you accumulated so much debt during the course of the year that you avoid phone calls from private numbers to dodge one of the many creditors coming after you during the festive season? Burying...
View ArticleThe safe online shopping guide
Online retailers are gearing up for the biggest shopping day of the year. With more consumers doing their holiday shopping online, additional compute resources and warehouses bulging with inventory...
View ArticleDigital trends that will shape 2018
The next wave of digital technologies is on the way, and it promises to change our lives as dramatically as the smartphone did. We’re seeing technologies such as chatbots, augmented reality and video...
View Article‘Tis the season to be ‘nice’ online …
Mastercard shares four “nice” tips for staying safe this holiday season. The holiday season is upon us, and while many shoppers are rushing to the malls for last-minute offers, others are looking for...
View ArticleLG partners with Meridian Audio
LG Electronics (LG) and Meridian Audio have announced a partnership to bring high performance audio to more consumers across the world. LG and Meridian will collaborate on a vast array of LG audio...
View ArticleCybersecurity arms race set to escalate in 2018
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s famous line resonated back in the 19th century Parisian literary circles, and it resonates today in the 21st century...
View ArticleWhat do customers really want?
Customers want businesses to hear them, understand them and appreciate them. This is one of the key insights reaped from Deloitte’s annual Global Contact Center Survey for 2017, writes Ebrahim Dinat,...
View ArticlePoPI pressure mounts as deadline looms
Once the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (PoPI Act) is made effective, companies will have a year’s grace period to become compliant with the Act. In the meantime, agreements between...
View ArticleThe EAM shopper’s checklist
TechTarget defines enterprise asset management (EAM) as; “a broad term vendors use to describe software that provides managers with a way to view company-owned assets holistically. The goal is to...
View ArticleMySchool MyVillage MyPlanet goes digital
One of South Africa’s largest consumer-driven fundraising programmes, MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet, has gone digital with its mobile app. The app’s new virtual card feature now allows you to give back,...
View ArticleASUS debuts Zephyrus in SA
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) has launched Zephyrus, claimed to be the world’s slimmest gaming laptop powered by a 7th Generation Intel Core i7 (Kaby Lake) processor and the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
View ArticleE-commerce trends in 2018
E-commerce has continued to grow in 2017 with a disruptive effect on physical shopping malls and retail giants like H&M. The growth is likely to continue in 2018. Ingemar Gleissman, founder and CEO...
View ArticleOnline security resolutions for 2018
Cybersecurity threats will keep getting worse in 2018, experts say. Individual Internet users, as well as businesses, will experience a rising number of breaches, including ransomware attacks, phishing...
View ArticleAutomation and skills development: an unlikely duo
The digital transformation continues to change the way we work – and one of the most commonly known ways is through automation. While the automated economy is often seen as a threat to many of today’s...
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