Africa’s climate future depends on solidarity

African leaders are urged to stand together and present a united front to tackle climate change. This is one of the main messages to come out of Africa Day at the COP 25 climate meeting. Speaking on behalf of the African Union, Egypt’s minister of environmental...

Challenging year ahead for PC sales

The IT channel should be braced for much weaker performance in the PC market in 2020, with year-on-year sales likely to turn negative in the second half of the year. Analysing data collected from vendors, resellers and distributors, Context believes strong commercial...

Talksure takes global contact centre honours

Umhlanga-based financial services provider Talksure has walked away with gold at the 2019 Contact Centre World Global Awards. CEO Jacques de Beer, accepted the award for Best Large-Sized Contact Centre at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the Fairmont in...

Lenovo, Intel partner on research supercomputer

Lenovo and Intel will collaborate to modernise HPC infrastructure at Austria’s most powerful supercomputer – the Vienna Scientific Cluster-4 (VSC-4). Built on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, VSC-4 supports more...

Massive growth in unique malicious objects

In 2019, the number of unique malicious objects detected by Kaspersky’s web antivirus solution rose by an eighth, compared to last year — reaching 24 610 126. This growth was mainly influenced by a 187% rise in web skimmer files. Other threats, such as...

EOH sheds healthcare subsidiary

EOH Abantu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EOH, has entered into a sale of shares agreement with Afrocentric Health (RF) to dispose of all of its shares in Dental Information Systems Holdings (Denis) for a total value of R250-million. Denis, together with its...