Technology

Using technology to manage your company’s loss rate can have a massive impact on your bottom line. If you want to win at business, you need to become obsessed with your losses.

Businesses are, for a large part, uninformed and risk averse towards securing IoT. Enterprise, industrial and commercial IoT is a sticking point for business, particularly in South Africa, where boards of directors and senior executives are not yet knowledgeable about the benefits. This causes them to be exceptionally averse to risk, but this is changing as younger and more informed ‘tech-savvy’ executives are being appointed to boards.

Businesses have never before been so accountable for the use, storing and handling of data. As highlighted by the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal, there is in intense focus currently on data privacy, data security and the responsibility of protecting one’s digital identity.

We have all heard the statistic about 90% of the world’s data having been generated in the last two years alone. However, the detail behind this data explosion is bordering on unbelievable.

With security as the watchword at every turn and in practically every transaction in modern-day life, the unsettling reality remains that fraud, identity theft, and cybercrime are rapidly on the increase globally.

Huawei launched their latest weapon in the smartphone race, and it’s a good effort. The new Mate 20 Pro is a great device combining cutting edge technology with the newest version of Android 9 along with superior construction and design.

Over the past decade or so, the technology industry has transformed many things we used to buy as physical products into digital services we subscribe to or access on a pay-per-use basis. Think about how we have moved from buying CDs towards paying a monthly subscription to use Spotify, or the shift from DVDs to Netflix.

While 2018 has certainly been a seesaw year for South African businesses, there have been significant – and very positive – developments on the IT and connectivity front.

The growing demand for accurate, effective and convenient business support tools has seen a rise in solution-driven innovations from payment, banking and budgeting applications, to accounting desktop solutions.

The Fitbit Charge 3 is the latest health tracker from Fitbit. It's more than a simple activity tracker and less than a fully features smartwatch. Fitbit likes to call the new Charge 3 a smart Tracker. Steven Ambrose takes the new Fitbit Charge 3 out on runs and to the gym to see how smart it is.