New digital identity technology puts users in charge of trust

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a digital identity exchange technology that makes it possible for individual users and service businesses involved in online transactions to confirm the identity of other parties in transactions. The rapid advance of digitalisation...

The time to embrace 4IR is now

Given what we know today about the potential beneficial impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we must embrace this historic confluence of human insights and engagement, artificial intelligence and technology, to rise to the challenges of poverty, unemployment...

How to avoid overloading the IT project team

Imagine your project team as traffic on a freeway. When the traffic density (or resource utilisation) is high, a minor crash has an immediate effect on traffic flow — slowing it dramatically or stopping it completely. And you don’t need 100% traffic...

Live 5G session demonstrated at Durban July

What is believed to be South Africa’s first live 5G session on a commercial-ready 5G mobile phone and network was demonstrated at Saturday’s Durban July horse racing event. Vodacom completed the data session using LG’s V50 ThinQ 5G smartphone. It was...

New ransomware exploits dangerous Windows vulnerability

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered new encryption ransomware named Sodin, which exploits a recently discovered zero-day Windows vulnerability to get elevated privileges in an infected system and takes advantage of the architecture of the central processing unit...

Logicalis SA acquires Mars Technologies

Datatec subsidiary Logicalis SA has acquired Mars Technologies, an IT services business, with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Durban and East London employing 76 staff. Mars Technologies delivers managed IT services ranging from the remote...