SolarAfrica begins SunCentral rollout
SolarAfrica has successfully reached financial close on the first 114 MW component of its SunCentral project alongside funding partners Investec and RMB. The R1,8-billion investment into SunCentral marks the start of the project’s rollout in South Africa. SunCentral...
ESA, Red Cross bring space technology to disaster management
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have signed a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) to harness space technology for humanitarian assistance worldwide. The partnership will combine ESA's space expertise with ICRC's...
Japanese only work 26 minutes per month to cover Internet costs
The global Internet usage rate continues to grow - with more than 5,3-billion people or 65,7% of the world`s population using the Internet at the start of Q4 2023 - but as the Internet coverage gap continues to narrow, the price gap remains wide, even between...
Black Friday scams to watch out for
As Black Friday approaches, Kaspersky has released a new report revealing the latest shopping-related cyberthreats. The findings expose more than 13-million e-shop-related phishing attacks in 2023, with scammers mimicking popular marketplaces, luxury brands, and...
Heightened water stress will see businesses under scrutiny
Drought and flood events in recent years have highlighted the importance of water as a strategic global resource and climate change will impact access to water, forcing many countries to modify how they manage resources, according to a new S&P Global Market...
HCP shipments fall as demand softens
Shipments of hardcopy peripherals (HCP) in Western Europe (WE) declined 11,6% YoY to 3,4-million units in Q3 2023, according to recent research by International Data Corporation (IDC). While the situation tends to differ by country and brand, supply chain issues have...
Setting SA’s maths whizzkids up for exam success
When the Siyavula and MTN Foundations teamed up to launch the Siyavula #1MillionMaths Challenge - aimed at sparking interest in maths and to help South Africa's high school students prepare for their final exams - they never realised the pivotal role it could play in...
Few companies have AI projects, despite urgency
Just 11% of organisations in South Africa are fully prepared to deploy and leverage artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technologies, according to Cisco’s inaugural AI Readiness Index. This is in line with global trends, with 14% of respondents globally considering...
NASA sends optical comms millions of kilometers into space
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 16-million kilometers away – about 40 times farther than the Moon is from Earth – to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in...
OpenAI execs move to Microsoft
OpenAI has let its CEO and board member Sam Altman go. He and chairman Greg Brockman will be joining Microsoft to head up a new AI division there. Announcing Altman's departure, a statement from OpenAI notes that Altman's departure follows a deliberative review...
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SA payments processor boosted by global investment
Financial Software and Systems (FSS), a global digital payment and financial technology company, has made a strategic investment in South African payments company Ecentric Payment Systems to accelerate growth momentum into Africa. FSS has acquired a 46% stake in...
Spaza shop fintech closes a gap in R40bn cash market
It is estimated that the spaza shop market in South Africa is valued at around R40 billion per year and that 90% or more of the transactions are in cash. This market is growing at around 10% each year. Despite this statistic of unaccounted cash, South Africa's...
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Bloomable, formerly known as SA Florist, has partnered with digital transformation specialist Bluegrass Digital to support the growing ecommerce business with big ambitions. Bloomable is an online marketplace that connects people looking to buy fresh flowers and...
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In order to be a great business analyst (BA), knowledge of the business, understanding the technical aspects and a capability in the tools of the trade are all key to ensuring high-quality software is delivered on time and as per spec. A complicated role, BAs within...
OutSystems achieves record revenue in 2018
OutSystems, which provides a platform for low-code rapid application development, achieved record revenue in 2018 due largely to the value customers are gaining from the low-code platform. OutSystems posted a 66% increase in annual recurring revenue for 2018, which is...
Azure in SA to drive business growth
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner DAC Systems believes the launch last week of two Microsoft Azure data centres in South Africa will provide the African market with much-needed momentum when it comes to cloud adoption. "Slow latency and regulatory restrictions on where...
Why SA remains a BPO destination of choice
In 2007 South Africa was identified as one of the world's upcoming business process outsourcing (BPO) destinations of choice. Now, 12 years' on, does this still ring true? Jacques de Beer, CEO of Talksure, an international contact centre located in Umhlanga, says:...
Product review: the Mecer Fundi
The new Mecer Fundi YA13Q10 notebook is the ideal professional laptop with extended graphics which allows it to become an aid tool for designers or artists. It's a 13,3-inch Notebook, including Intel Celeron N3350, 32GB eMMC, 4GB RAM and Windows 10 Pro (64-bit). This...
Star-spangled DevConf gears up for fourth edition
The organisers of DevConf have revealed their mystery speakers and a series of riveting talks at DevConf - the summit for South African developers - this month. DevConf co-organiser Robert MacLean says: "This agenda is something really special, with a number of...
Fujitsu adds quantum acceleration to Digital Annealer
The second-generation Fujitsu Digital Annealer is now enabling organizations to make a rapid and affordable leap to solve complex combinatorial optimisation problems - enabling breakthroughs in areas such as optimiz=sing manufacturing processes, minimising traffic...
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