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South African print market growth lagging behind African recovery

Info Source

Chris de Beer Chris de Beer, Africa Regional Manager at Infosource These are worrying times for the South African print and digitalisation market. Furthermore, the influx of lower-priced Asian brands into the market is also fuelling growth. These devices are primarily marketed in retail settings or for use in home offices.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

Not only will this help scale the AOT tech across markets, but it will also help tackle integrations including additional languages, dialects and menu variations. McDonald’s is building AI solutions for customer care with IBM Watson AI technology and NLP to accelerate the development of its automated order taking (AOT) technology.

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Sustainability trends: 5 issues to watch in 2024

IBM Big Data Hub

And they could drive economic gains: Research shows markets for carbon-neutral goods and services may be worth $10.3 Retailers, particularly in the fashion industry, are increasingly embracing circular business models: rental and resale programs offer opportunities for growth, while repair services offer an alternative to landfill disposal.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. IRR and investing proceeds at the social rate of return is 53.6%.

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INSIGHTS from SENTINEL

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Author Karine Ganem, Director of Global Field Marketing. This transformation from ownership to usership started in software but can be applied to almost every industry, from entertainment and retail to agriculture, energy, construction, trade, and transport. INSIGHTS from SENTINEL. Wed, 06/23/2021 - 16:11.

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The Economy of Things: the next value lever for telcos

IBM Big Data Hub

Vertical data platforms owned and operated by telcos and targeting a specific industry such as automotive, agriculture or financial services already exist today. The number of IoT connected devices are growing in practically every industry, and is even predicted to reach 29 billion worldwide by 2030.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect.

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