ITU looking for innovative SMEs

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has opened applications for the ITU Digital World SME Virtual Awards 2020, which will take place online for the first time. The awards will help innovative SMEs hone pitching skills, showcase solutions, make key...
Embrace the future with digital transformation

Embrace the future with digital transformation

Kathy Gibson reports – The future is not what it used to be. Change is all around us, and organisations need to ensure they digitalise their businesses or they will almost certainly get left behind by unfolding events. Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx,...
Covid-19 drives consumers to digital banking

Covid-19 drives consumers to digital banking

Kathy Gibson reports – As the Covid-19 pandemic hit South African shores, there was an almost immediate drop in consumers’ earning and a rise in retrenchments. That has only increased since April, says Mutsa Chironga, divisional executive for consumer...

Phishing is more targeted and diversified under Covid-19

Phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted, with a number of new tricks ranging from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as delivery notifications. As a result of such tendencies, security solutions have detected 2 023 501 phishing attacks in South...

When looking for a VPN, Chinese citizens search for Google

China has a long history of Internet censorship, and has its own tools to replace global services like Google and Facebook. The Chinese government also shields its citizens from the external world with the so-called Great Firewall, which helps control what citizens...

Next-generation IBM Power CPU launched

IBM has launched the next generation of its IBM Power central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM Power10. Designed to meet the needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM Power10 processor uses a design focused on energy efficiency and performance in a 7nm form...