Trickle-down effect drives sophisticated cyber-threats

Trickle-down effect drives sophisticated cyber-threats

By Kathy Gibson – The cyber-threat industry is a massive – and profitable – one and it’s getting more sophisticated thanks to a trickle-down effect of advanced nation state tools being made available to serious organised crime groups,...

AI increases skills gap, time to retrain staff

In the next three years, as many as 120-million workers in the world’s 12 largest economies may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation. This is among the findings from a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study,...

Algorithm-guided selling set to debut

Nearly 51% of sales organisations have already deployed or plan to deploy algorithmic-guided selling in the next five years, according to Gartner. Intended to augment more traditional sales tools, such as sales playbooks, algorithmic-guided selling uses sales data to...

Applications invited for AlphaCode Explore

Registrations for the AlphaCode Explore programme are now open. A joint initiative of The Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA) and Rand Merchant Investment Holdings (RMI) fintech division, AlphaCode, the 12-month programme is aimed at honing the ideas and skills of 20...

Moderate growth for Ethernet switches, routers

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded revenues of $7,07-billion in the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19), an increase of 4,8% year over year. Meanwhile, worldwide total enterprise and service provider (SP) router market revenues grew 3,4% year over...

The robots are coming to rAge 2019

Vodacom rAge 2019 has added another first to its growing list of exciting attractions. For the first time, The World Robotic Olympiad SA (WRO SA) will set up shop at Vodacom rAge 2019 host their top teams. The World Robotic Olympiad (WRO) is a global event that brings...