Intel debuts 9th Gen mobile processors
Intel has launched the new 9th Gen Intel Core mobile H-series processors, the most powerful generation of Intel Core mobile processors to date, designed for gamers and creators. "Our new 9th Gen platform is designed to delight gamers, creators and performance users by...
Is that a Marsquake we heard?
NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely "marsquake". The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander's Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on6 April, the lander's 128th Martian day,...
SA-startup Vollar presents to Stanford forum
Vollar, a new digital currency that enables sustainable and scalable social upliftment that empowers unemployed and informal traders, has been selected to present to the 12th Annual Stanford African Business Forum in Silicon Valley. South African startup Vollar...
Severe weather impacts Openserve’s infrastructure
The current inclement weather has wreaked havoc to Openserve infrastructure in KZN coastal areas resulting in a significant increase in network related faults. According to a statement from the organisation, flooding has restricted technicians from accessing...
SITA opens School of Software Engineering in the Free State
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) will launch its School of Software Engineering for secondary schools in the Free State tomorrow (25 April 2019). The Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education in the Free State, Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, will...
‘Regulation of Airbnb is draconian’
Government published the Tourism Amendment Bill on 12 April. Chris Hattingh, a researcher at the Free Market Foundation, offers his take on the bill. If this had happened on April 1, one could have believed that it was an April Fool's Joke, so comical is the logic...
Europe, North America reached 20,9m active insurance telematics policies in 2018
The number of insurance telematics policies in force on the European market reached 10,3-million in Q4-2018, according to Berg Insight. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36%, this number is expected to reach 47,9-million by 2023. In North America, the...
AI used to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges
Intel unveiled its first-generation Neural Compute Stick (NCS) in July 2017, fueling a community of tens of thousands of developers to create artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that have the capability to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Some...
Samsung postpones Galaxy Fold launch
Samsung has postponed the commercial launch of its Galaxy Fold smartphone following severe problems with review models sent to the media last week. The screens and hinges of many of the review units broke within just a few days, brought about by a number of factors,...
Universe’s first molecule found at last
The first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe has been detected in space for the first time, after decades of searching. Scientists discovered its signature in our own galaxy using the world’s largest airborne observatory, NASA’s Stratospheric...
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Are we teetering on the edge?
For the past five years we’ve all been talking about the cloud. It’s become all pervasive as companies move to consumption-based pricing, and we’ve watched the meteoric rise of the hyper-scalers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. And that’s despite the cynic’s view...
Solving the challenges of multi-cloud storage
Statistics gathered from the Gartner Symposium held in Cape Town in September 2018, stated that 60% of South African organisations use cloud services today. By Hayden Sadler, country manager: South Africa at Infinidat This percentage is expected to increase with the...
Case study: how Travelport uses cloud to meet digitalisation demands
By Mike Croucher - The travel industry is transforming with emerging technologies, new business models and changing consumer expectations. Travelers now have a wide range of options when it comes to planning their trips. While it might have once been common to visit...
Standard Bank partners with AWS for cloud migration
By Kathy Gibson - Standard Bank plans to migrate production workloads that include customer-facing systems and strategic core banking application to the cloud, and has signed up Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. Group CIO Alpheus Mangale...
The forecast for Africa: cloudy …
As South Africa welcomes local data centres from global players like Microsoft and Amazon, it’s clear that the cloud conversation is about to become more vocal. The latest moves are driving more enterprises to consider public cloud services, says Kevin Krige, data...
SA set to embrace the public cloud
Cloud computing received a major boost over the last few weeks, with two of the world’s largest public cloud providers officially opening data centres in South Africa. Within days of one another, Huawei and Microsoft both opened their local data centres, offering...
Managing your data in a multi-cloud ecosystem
As the hyper-scale cloud providers make massive investments in South Africa, opening their in-country data centres, they are prompting organisations to look for seriously at public cloud services to enhance their digital strategies. It’s important that the hyperscale...
First Distribution brings Microsoft Azure platform to market
Microsoft South Africa has officially opened its local data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town, aimed at driving public cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and edge implementations across the African continent. The two data centres have become part of a 54-region...
Security terminology demystified: ransomware edition
The file scrambler, the data hoarder and the ransom demander – ransomware isn’t fun for anyone. You’ve read our comprehensive guide to cybersecurity threats and you’ve hopefully read our inside guide to malware but now it is time to delve deep into the underground...
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