Black Friday is the king of retail bonanzas
South African retailers are already planning for a bumper 2025 Black Friday and holiday season. Black Friday, by its very nature, generates hype in the media and among retailers. However, a new index proves it is not hollow hype. South Africa’s first formal Black...
5G, AI to push IoT market past $1,8bn
The global Internet of Things (IoT) market is poised to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13,5% from $959,6-illion in 2023 to $1,8-trillion in revenue in 2028. This growth is driven by the rise of enterprise applications, enhanced by new technologies...
Apple grabs smartphone top spot
The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010, and for 2023 it is now Apple. A shifting of power at the top of the largest consumer electronics market was driven by an all-time high market share for Apple and a first time...
Human by design technologies supercharge productivity, creativity
New research from Accenture finds the world is in the midst of a massive technology shift, as AI and other disruptive technologies become "Human by Design" - much more human-like and intuitive for people to use - and usher in a new era of unprecedented productivity...
TymeBank reaches profitability in under five years
TymeBank reached its first month of profitability in December 2023, less than five years since launching in February 2019. It is believed to be the first digital bank to break even in South Africa and on the continent. "We are extremely proud of our achievement,...
Gates Foundation announces largest budget ever
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced its largest annual budget to date, of $8,6-billion. With global health budgets in decline overall, a portion of the additional funding will go toward advancing global health innovations that will save and improve...
AI in the spotlight as 2024 ushers in economic uncertainty
Global economic prospects remain subdued and fraught with uncertainty, according to the latest Chief Economists Outlook released today, as the global economy continues to grapple with headwinds from tight financial conditions, geopolitical rifts and rapid advances in...
Brands should beware the ‘Application Generation’
Across the world, attitudes and behaviours toward applications and digital services are evolving at speed, writes Ronak Desai, senior vice-president and GM of Cisco AppDynamics and Full-Stack Observability, adding that people are becoming more sophisticated,...
The transformative impact of immersive technologies
The growing demand for immersive experiences is driving the evolution of advanced platforms and technologies. This is according to GlobalData, which says these innovations are set to transform how people engage with content and their environment, offering captivating...
CEOs waiting for GenAI to move past the hype
Generative AI (GenAI) exploded into the public consciousness in 2023 promising to transform the way business functions but, despite the potential, business leaders are struggling to convert hype into reality. According to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG),...
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Kaspersky helps eliminate smart home controller vulnerabilities
Kaspersky researchers investigating the control device for an active smart home ecosystem have identified several critical vulnerabilities. These include bugs in the cloud infrastructure and potential remote code execution that would allow a third party to get 'super...
Digital nomads are coming to SA
Have multiple mobile devices, will travel -- and earn a living. Being a digital nomad is fast becoming a way of life and work for many people, allowing them to travel in their own back yards and the world at leisure. By Andrew Robinson, co-founder and executive chair...
Stop navel-gazing at encryption
We are so enthralled by our own brilliance in cryptography that we forget that most data at rest - tucked away inside databases - is unencrypted. By Lori MacVittie, principal technical evangelist at F5 Networks Case in point, a Skyhigh analysis of encryption controls...
How does data quality underpin success in a disrupted banking environment?
The banking industry is currently in a state of flux. Traditional banks have to contend with new competitors unburdened by legacy technology or business models, making them far more agile and responsive. By Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management These advantages...
Building the security baseline
At any given moment, a cybercrime victim is losing around R3.5 million a day, according to Action Fraud in the UK. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019 found that 60% of medium firms and 61% of large firms deny that they have been attacked and yet 25% of those that...
A pragmatic approach to cloud in the age of hyperscale
Enterprise IT is sceptical about moving business critical internal operations to the cloud - and for good reason. Andrew Cruise, MD of vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure provider Routed, says that while businesses are keen to rid themselves of expensive on-premise...
Device as a service makes IT agile, predictable and transparent
We’ve got software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), even disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) among a host of “as a service” offerings – so it was only a matter of time until device as a service (DaaS) came into its own. It’s not too obvious why it...
Busting the gaming stereotype
South Africa's gamers are educated, healthy, well-off and lives life to the full, writes Rachel Thompson, insights director of GfK South Africa. Perceptions that gamers are predominantly young, geeky, and male persist, despite the reality that playing videogames has...
Volatility, uncertainty can disrupt the supply chain
Take a look at the news headlines today and you'll find volatility is a trend across the globe. Consider Brexit or the trade wars between the US and China or even, more recently, trade wars between the US and Mexico. All of this uncertainty leads to anxiety and never...
How to use bridging and bonding in your career
It is no secret that professional networking builds competencies and creates strategic relationships, while also expanding an individual's visibility and credibility. However, not all networking has the same effect. In fact, you can think of networking in either one...
Data Analyst at Carrick – Western Cape Century City
You will play a crucial role in interpreting data to provide actionable insights. Responsible for processing,analysing and collecting data from various sources. You will use statistical tools to identify, analyse and interpret patterns and trends in complex data sets....
Senior Software Engineer at The Foschini Group
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Senior Project Manager
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Senior Software Engineer at The Foschini Group – Western Cape Parow East
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Senior Project Manager – Gauteng Pretoria CBD
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Data Engineer – Gauteng Randburg
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Project Manager II/III
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IT Systems Administrator at NRF National Research Foundation
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