Data wrangling comes of age
The global data wrangling market size is expected to reach $10,31-billion by 2033, registering a CAGR of 12% from 2025 to 2033, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The market's growth is driven by the increase in data volume and velocity across...
Parker shares closest-ever fly-by of the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on 24 December 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 3,8-million miles above the surface of the Sun, the spacecraft hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a...
Quantum Internet poised to revolutionise global connectivity
The advent of the quantum Internet, a revolutionary communication system utilising quantum mechanical principles and qubits instead of binary bits, is poised to redefine global connectivity with unprecedented levels of security and performance, according to...
Share-based employee compensation includes ESG targets
Almost two thirds (60%) of companies around the world who responded to the Global Equity Organisation's (GEO) Global Equity Insights Survey (GEIS) apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets to share-based employee compensation. The non-profit body says...
Global lessons could help billions get connected
Lessons learned from efforts to bring wireless communications technologies to remote areas from the Arctic to the Andes could help widen global access to the benefits of the information age. An international team of researchers have published new recommendations on...
Juniper Mist a bright spot amid WLAN market carnage
Wireless LAN (WLAN) revenues plunged by 27% in Q1 2024 as enterprises and distributors digested the large volume of WLAN equipment that was shipped a year ago, according to a recently published report from Dell'Oro Group. "While most vendors had sharp contractions in...
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...
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Funding granted for Covid-19 clinical trials
The partners in the Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator have announced grants of $20-million to three institutions - the University of Washington, University of Oxford, and La Jolla Institute for Immunology - to fund clinical trials in order to identify highly potent...
SMEs: protect your data by moving to the cloud
In South Africa, 75% of CEOs stated that the increasing complexity of cyber threats is shaping their businesses. This is according to the PwC 23rd Annual CEO Survey 2020, which also highlights the growing public concern over data privacy and vulnerabilities in supply...
Hyundai’s Vest Exoskeleton wins Red Dot Design Award
The Hyundai Motor Group's latest exoskeleton wearable robot, the Vest Exoskeleton (VEX), has won the Product Design category (Innovative Product field) at the Red Dot Design Awards. The VEX was developed in line with Hyundai Motor Group's commitment to the health and...
Securicom debuts advanced threat detection solution
Securicom continues to add to its cyber threat-busting arsenal. New to its end-to-end range of IT security services is Securicom Monitor Detect Alert (MDA), an advanced network threat detection and alert platform. Suitable for organisations of all shapes and sizes,...
Risk, resilience and Covid-19
South Africa made it to 5 March 2020 before our first official confirmed case of Covid-19 was announced by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, write Vanessa Thurlwell of Mondial Risk and Business Consultants and Craig Kent, head of risk management at Aon South Africa. The...
Next-gen DCIM vital for resilient edge infrastructure
As the demand for data storage and edge computing grows, reliable and efficient computing and storage sites become increasingly important. However, the management of these sites presents a challenge as these smaller, local edge computing sites - typically one to four...
Shared risk massively opens up Africa’s solar energy opportunities
There is now a zero-risk, zero-cost way to establish renewable energy in Africa. Advanced delivery models and mature global providers have encouraged financiers to provide innovative solutions that don't even require companies to pay a deposit. By Wessel Wessels, head...
New CIO for e4
Fintech software specialist e4 has announced the appointment of Fikile Sibiya as its CIO. Sibiya will oversee the vision, leadership, development and implementation of IT initiatives for the company. "Central to my new role will be aligning core technology decisions...
Constant payroll crises a sure sign you’ve outgrown your software
Processing your company's payroll should be a breeze, but if your payroll department is living from one crisis to the next, chances are good you've either outgrown your HR and payroll software, your solution provider, or both. This is the word from Ian McAlister, GM...
Aptronics reaches top VMware partner status
Aptronics has achieved VMware Principal Partner Status. The Principal Partner status was recently announced by VMware within its newly launched VMware Partner Connect programme, offering a simplified and flexible mechanism by which partners can engage with the...
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