Legal and compliance issues raised by the Ukraine invasion

Legal and compliance leaders should consider their response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the context of three critical areas, according to Gartner. “The pressure for companies to take a firm stance on social issues has been building across the past two...
Laduma! MeerKAT spots distant megamaser

Laduma! MeerKAT spots distant megamaser

A powerful, naturally occurring “space laser”, called a megamaser, has been discovered with South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope in a galaxy nearly 5-billion light-years away. This is the most distant such megamaser found so far, and was probably forged in the...

Security spend is up but data losses continue

Despite spending more than ever on security and data protection, a big majority of organisations still suffer losses due to system crashes, human error and cyberattacks. This is one of the conclusions reached in Acronis’s annual Cyber Protection Week Global...

What happens now that the 5G auction is done?

By now you will know that over R14-billion was raised after the auction of broadband spectrum in South Africa, a figure that exceeded all expectations. By Nitesh Singh, MD: communications, media and technology at Accenture in Africa Most of the headlines have...

This is what South Africans have been searching for

Can’t stop hearing about Will Smith and Chris Rock’s Oscar incident? Disappointed at Bafana Bafana’s performance against France in the friendly? A round-up of the top search queries generated by South Africans based on Google search activity shows...

Incubation programme aims to develop youth entrepreneurs

Eight young, start-up entrepreneurs with innovative ideas in the ICT space, winners of the #MyStartUpMyStory social media campaign, have been selected as part of the first ever cohort of a new Innovator Trust Start-Up Incubation Programme. The Start-Up Incubation...