Herotel brings Amazon’s Leo satellite services to SA

Kathy Gibson reports – Herotel has signed a distribution agreement with Amazon to bring its Leo Constellation satellite service to South Africa. Set to go live in 2027, South Africa will be among one of the first countries in the world to connect to the low earth...

Social media the top culprit as deepfake fraud grows

Deepfake attacks are growing, and costing people more. Scial media is the main culprit

Muse highlights privacy, copyright issues in AI training

Copyright and privacy issues under the spotlight as Meta withdraws Muse feature

PC shipments tank as memory crunch bites

Worldwide PC shipments fell 4,9% year-over-year in Q2 2026 to 68,2-million units, according to IDC — the first decline after nine consecutive quarters of growth. A persistent memory chip shortage drove the reversal, pushing vendors to pull inventory forward as far as...

Concertgoers becoming more savvy about online scams

The average financial loss from concert ticket scams has halved this year, according to new research from Surfshark, which says that scams reported to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) indicate potential concertgoers lost $303 – compared to $606 in 2024. From 2020 to...

Nvidia releases open dataset, models for multilingual speech AI

There are about 7 000 languages in the world, but just a small fraction of them are supported by AI language models. Nvidia is tackling the problem with a new dataset and models that support the development of high-quality speech recognition and translation AI for 25...

Multimodal GenAI solutions to become the norm

A significant 40% of generative AI (GenAI) solutions will be multimodal (text, image, audio and video) by 2027, up from 1% in 2023, according to Gartner. This shift from individual to multimodal models provides an enhanced human-AI interaction and an opportunity for...

SA gets first bite of new iPhone 16

South Africans will be among the first customers in the world to get their hands on Apple’s new iPhone 16 range of smartphones. iStore South Africa has confirmed that it will be launching the iPhone 16 range on the same day as the US and other major markets. The...

Diversity matters, and improves telco performance

Continued adoption of diversity targets and improved reporting of race, disability, and gender identification is found to be helpful in improving the performance of telecom companies, according to an analysis of UK leading service providers to enterprise customers...

Wrist-worn device shipments slip but China takes up the slack

According to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker data, the global wrist-worn device market shipped 43,7-million units in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24), a year-over-year (YoY) decrease of 0.7%. China...

WiFi 7 surges as WLAN shows signs of recovery

There was a glimmer of hope in the enterprise class wireless LAN (WLAN) market as revenues increased Q/Q to $2,2-billion, according to a Dell’Oro report. The adoption of Wi-Fi 7 accelerated, with Huawei shipping over half of the world’s units. “While WLAN revenues...

New phishing campaigns aimed at students and educators

As the international back-to-school season starts, Kaspersky has warned that cybercriminals are exploiting academic topics with sophisticated phishing campaigns to specifically target the theft of personal data from students, educators, and administrators. Fraudsters...

Remote monitoring of patients on the rise … and rising

The number of remotely monitored patients reached 76.7-million worldwide in 2023 as the market acceptance of mHealth continues to grow in several key verticals, according to new findings from Berg Insight. The IoT market research provider says this number includes all...

Get aboard the AI rocket ship at the 2024 Dell Technologies Forum

The AI Edition of this year's Dell Technologies Forum is the place to be on 7 November 2024! Artificial Intelligence is key to unlocking value within data, making it one of the most important tools for businesses of all sizes – and Dell provides market-leading AI...

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Prepare for a flexible work future in 2021

A year ago, not much about the way we worked had really changed in decades. Most companies still organized work around major hubs in large cities and their workforce was comprised of local talent that commuted to the office every day, regardless of the type of work...

Covid is a catalyst for cloud

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has flipped the traditional 'at-the-office 9-5' convention on its head and today many businesses are facilitating the work-from-home model - which has also served as a catalyst for increased cloud adoption and services implementation,...

Retail industry trends for 2021

Understanding customer data has been at the core of 2020's challenges and will remain a critical need for 2021 and beyond. By Tom Bianculli, chief technology officer of Zebra Technologies What have been the top three biggest developments in our industry in 2020? We...

Fraud safety tips for the festive season

With the December holidays upon us, it is easy for many of us to throw caution to the wind and enjoy a much-deserved break of fun, sun and shopping with the family. However, South Africans are reminded that fraud is still very real, and tends to peak during this time...

Determining data’s net asset value en route to marketing automation

With many organisations increasingly turning to technology and data to unlock value, it is becoming more important to have a clear understanding of the liabilities and risks associated with data harvesting and data ownership. By JD Engelbrecht, MD of Everlytic The...

Cyber crime risks destroy gains made over the last year

Online merchants are revelling in the excellent growth of new online customers, driven largely by the Covid pandemic. But, while they are making hay, fraudsters are also migrating online and, if left unchecked, these bad actors could destroy the windfall of this new...

2021 will be a cybercrime bruiser

Predicting the future is risky. As is often quipped, predicting the past is hard enough! Certainly, nobody could predict that 2020 would be a year like none other in modern history. The pandemic caused a tremendous realignment of priorities and waves of uncertainty....

How to recover from a hasty cloud migration strategy

Many organisations run into trouble when they embark on cloud migration projects without a properly formulated strategy and business case, meaning they have little clarity about where the business value lies and why they are making the move in the first place. The...

The benefits of an agile PoS enablement

There is little doubt that the rapidly evolving point-of-sale (PoS) landscape and the growing number of digital applications and mobile payment methods is exciting for many retailers. However, it is also challenging, as the PoS environment must be made more agile and...

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