UCT among top 40 international universities

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been ranked 39th in the Times Higher Education (THE) list of the 200 most international universities. These institutions collaborate on research across the world, have a strong reputation globally and have a high proportion of...

Vodacom adds more than 2m customers

Vodacom Group has issued a trading update for the quarter ended 31 December 2019, reporting that group revenue was up 6,6%, supported by service revenue growth of 5,7%. The network added 484 000 customers in South Africa, supported by a successful Summer campaign. In...

Antivirus could have saved these businesses $71bn

Data gathered and calculated by Precisecurity.com shows that some businesses could have saved about $71-billion – simply by having an effective antivirus solution. The affected businesses saw millions of records exposed due to poor security. In total, all...

More SA ransomware attacks ring alarm bells

News has emerged that Tracker SA Systems were hacked over the weekend in the form of a ransomware attack. Heino Gevers, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast, comments: “South African organisations are likely to continue being targeted by cybercriminals until they...

Mellanox, Dell partner on supercomputing platforms

Mellanox Technologies, a of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, has recently announced a partnership with Dell Technologies. The two companies are working together in moving the arenas of...

Lawbots to take on internal legal requests

Intense pressure on legal departments to increase their responsiveness and efficiency is leading them to look toward automation, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing, according to Gartner. In fact, Gartner predicts that...