SA students share global honours

SA students share global honours

A team of South African students has shared the top honours in a global competition to develop and recognise ICT talent around the world. The team, from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) shared the first prize in the Huawei 2016-2017 ICT Skill Competition...

Banking CEOs are confident about 2017

Banking and capital markets CEOs are positively optimistic about their growth prospects in the year ahead; 40% are very confident that they’ll achieve revenue growth over the coming 12 months, up from 31% last year. These are the main findings from the report...

FNB scoops digital channels vote

FNB Digital Channels has been voted as the best in the country in the latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SACSI) survey results. Yolande Steyn, head of innovation at FNB, says: “We are honoured to receive this accolade for the fifth year running....

Growing demand for set-top boxes

The demand for government-subsidised set-top-boxes is up, with a total of 36 042 households registered for these decoders in February, compared to 11 709 registrations captured for January. “It is encouraging to see the growth in demand. The increase in...

UJ prof wins funding for world-leading research

Researcher Professor Qing-Guo Wang from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) has been awarded an A-rating by the SA National Research Foundation (NRF) for his research in Control and Automation for Engineering and Financial applications. Prof Wang joined the Institute...

Widespread effects of Amazon storage outage

Some of Amazon’s cloud storage experienced outages yesterday, bringing down some of the world’s biggest websites and services. The breakdown affected storage buckets hosted in the US-East-1 region, and caused outages on sites including Imgur, Medium and...