Channel veteran Gary Pickford leaves Tarsus
By Mark Davison - After more than 24 years in various roles at the group, Gary Pickford, CEO of Tarsus Distribution, has resigned from the company. Group chief financial officer Emile Burger will take up the reins of the company from Pickford. “It is with a heavy...
SA not progressing in cybersecurity readiness
Kathy Gibson reports - Cybersecurity readiness remains alarmingly low in 2025. Organisations are still struggling with many of the basics, compounded by new complexities introduced by AI and an ongoing skills shortages. This is according to Cisco’s 2025 Cybersecurity...
Chinese espionage campaign uncovered
Sophos has released a report, "Operation Crimson Palace: Threat Hunting Unveils Multiple Clusters of Chinese State-Sponsored Activity Targeting Southeast Asia", which details a highly sophisticated, nearly two-year long espionage campaign against a high-level...
Newly-discovered ransomware uses BitLocker to encrypt corporate data
Kaspersky has identified ransomware attacks using Microsoft's BitLocker to attempt encryption of corporate files. The threat actors remove the recovery options to prevent the files from being restored and use a malicious script with a new feature: it can detect...
Ecobank launches 2024 Fintech Challenge
Ecobank has official opened applications to the 7th edition of its Fintech Challenge. This annual competition invites early-stage and mature fintech startups to partner with Ecobank, offering a grand prize of $50 000 and a chance to scale their solutions across...
Interest in NFTs continues to fade
The last two years have been rough for the NFT market, and 2024 doesn't look much better. With falling sales and investors losing appetite for digital artwork, market projections became less optimistic, showing only a modest 2,6% annual growth by 2028, twenty times...
Global telecom, network API spend set for 57% CAGR
Worldwide revenues for telecom and network APIs will reach $6,7-billion in 2028, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57,1% over the 2023-2028 forecast period. Worldwide market...
For the first time, smartphone sales overtake feature phones in Africa
Africa's smartphone market showed remarkable resilience in the face of macroeconomic challenges and forex issues in Q1 2024, with shipments increasing 17,9% year on year (YoY) to reach 20,2-million units. That's according to the latest insights from International Data...
Smartphone shipments on the road to recovery
Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to grow 4% YoY in 2024 to 1,21-billion units, according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. The growth in 2024 adds momentum to the overall recovery IDC expects...
Ransomware continues to cause havoc
Ransomware remains an ongoing threat for organisations and is the largest single cause of IT outages and downtime as 41% of data is compromised during a cyberattack, according to the latest Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends Report. The report also reveals that only 57% of...
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MTN launches MTN Arena mobile gaming platform
MTN has launched an offering for avid gamers: through MTN Arena, the companies is bringing the world of competitive gaming to the casual mobile gamer along with daily, weekly and monthly mobile tournaments - and the chance to win a share of R100 000 in prize money...
Vodacom’s Just4You gives customers double their data
Vodacom is giving customers who buy selected bundles using the Just4You platform, a 100% bonus on daily, weekly and monthly bundles. This means that customers who buy selected data bundles via the My Vodacom App and USSD will receive double the value of their data...
Women’s Day challenge to PR companies
PR companies working in the IT industry have been challenged to make a donation made to the A-Plus Channelwise Women’s Day 101 Donations initiative. Sue Castelyn, MD of A-Plus, has made her personal contribution of R1 000.00, and challenged other PR companies to do...
Lenovo debuts new global partner hub
The new Lenovo Partner Hub marks an important step in the company-wide multi-year digital transformation program for business partners. Lenovo Partner Hub, which launched in EMEA on 27 July, is powered by advanced analytics. It will serve as a one-stop shop designed...
Big data must be real-time
Big data has been a hot topic for years now, with predictions about its impact ranging from organisations being able to provide services specifically tailored to individuals, to "big brother" governments having and in-depth view into every aspect of a citizen's life....
New ESM GM for Networks Unlimited
Risna Steenkamp has been appointed as the GM: ESM division at Networks Unlimited Africa. Steenkamp was promoted after just six months from her position as the company's Western Cape regional channel manager, an appointment which she took up in July last year. This...
Altron BSI partners with Aprimo
Altron Bytes Systems Integration (BSI), a subsidiary of JSE-listed Altron, has partnered with US-based Aprimo to bring digital technology and services to companies that will benefit dramatically from digital transformation. Aprimo is a global provider of digital asset...
BlackFog makes Hot Vendors list
BlackFog, a provider of data privacy and data security solutions, has been included in the list of "Hot Vendors" in the "Hot Vendors in Security and Privacy, 2020" report by Aragon Research. BlackFog's data privacy and data security platform provides enterprises with...
Salesforce sub-Saharan Africa Partner Awards announced
Salesforce has announced its annual sub-Saharan African Partner Award winners, recognising excellence among Salesforce's partner ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for financial year 2020 (to end January 2020). Awards are judged based on the revenue contribution of...
Tech Wise Solutions grows operations
As part of its strategy to expand its operations in Africa, Tech Wise Solutions has appointed Eugene Verster and Nicole Willis to enhance its sales force. Garry Kondakov, director for African business at Tech Wise Solutions, says: "Tech Wise has undergone a growth...
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Graduate Software Development Programme (CPT / JHB) at Parvana Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
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