Cisco partners with Jozi My Jozi on inner city revitalisation

Kathy Gibson reports form Johannesburg - Cisco and Jozi My Jozi today launched a new partnership aimed at harnessing technology to help develop the Johannesburg inner city. The new initiative, Masibambisane, is part of Cisco’s global 40 Communities social impact...

New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation

Kathy Gibson reports - Actom has opened a new assembly line for locally-assembled LiFePO₄ battery energy storage systems (BESS). Yesterday, the company also announced that is expanding manufacturing capacity for its high voltage equipment. These moves are significant...

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

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Run apps anywhere with extended AOS

Kathy Gibson reports from Nutanix .Next in Washington DC – In a multi-cloud, hybrid cloud world, organisations shouldn’t be constrained as to what cloud they can use to run their workloads. Rajiv Ramaswami, president and CEO of Nutanix, points out that his company has...

AFHRI recovers on the back of marginally lower interest rates

The results of the Altron FinTech Household Resilience Index (AFHRI) for the fourth quarter of 2024 have been released, confirming a modest improvement in the financial position of South African households - mainly due to three cuts of 25 basis points each in the repo...

Rise of DeepTech aligns technology with SDGs

In a newly-published research, the IDC Emerging Technologies team investigates the potential of DeepTech in Europe. IDC defines DeepTech as "a class of emerging technologies, built upon scientific and engineering innovation, whose primary focus is to address social...

Surgical AR/VR poised for widespread adoption

Apple recently made its foray into the extended reality (XR) market with the introduction of its spatial computing product, Vision Pro. Early adopters have responded positively to the launch, and the product's impact on the widespread adoption of XR hardware and...

South Africans are living hand-to-mouth

with drastic changes in the economy over the past two years, South African consumers' financial realities and concerns have also changed. For many, getting by has become a priority, while investments and building wealth have taken a back seat. In late 2023, 1Life...

Nvidia joins new AI Safety Institute Consortium

Nvidia has joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology's new US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) as part of the company's effort to advance safe, secure and trustworthy AI. AISIC will work to create tools, methodologies and...

Political, economic certainty would boost residential property sales

Estate agents surveyed by Lightstone at the end of 2023 say political and economic certainty will lead to better residential property sales after a disappointing 2023, where less than 40% said they achieved volume or value sales targets. Although South Africa faces...

GenAI leads the trends impacting tech providers

Gartner has highlighted the top trends that will impact technology providers in 2024. "Generative AI (GenAI) is dominating the technical and product agenda of nearly every tech provider," says Eric Hunter, managing vice-president at Gartner. "The technology reshapes a...

AMD unveils Embedded+ architecture for edge AI applications

AMD has launched AMD Embedded+, a new architectural solution that combines AMD Ryzen Embedded processors with Versal adaptive SoCs on to a single integrated board to deliver scalable and power-efficient solutions that accelerate time-to-market for original design...

Young SA scientists scoop awards at Taiwan International Science Fair

Two budding young scientists from South Africa have received awards at the 2024 Taiwan International Science Fair (TISF) after successfully showcasing their research projects to judges and their peers at the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Taipei. Johannes...

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Data management company Redstor offers a secure, real-time data management solution that provides organisations with access to all their data irrespective of the device used. "Data management in the digital world requires a new perspective on what availability must...

That cloud looks attractive right now

South Africa's current woes, both real and imagined, appear to be coming in jumbo-packs of late. The uncertainties around the upcoming National Elections, severe weather conditions and ratings agency downgrades are all dealing body blows to our already struggling...

LG announces first-quarter 2019 financial results

LG Electronics Inc. (LG) today announced consolidated sales of KRW 14.92 trillion ($13.27 billion) and operating profit of KRW 900.6 billion ($801.25 million) for the first quarter of 2019. Although overall first-quarter revenues and operating income declined somewhat...

Troye makes headway in emerging markets

Managed IT services provider Troye has been awarded third place as Citrix's Cloud Partner of the Year for emerging markets. The Citrix Summit partner conference was held recently in Orlando, Florida. Troye CEO Helen Kruger is delighted to receive this award....

Nexign partners with NETS International

Nexign has announced a strategic reseller partnership with Dubai-based system integrator and solutions specialist, NETS International. The collaboration will allow the two industry leaders to bring flexible and scalable network-solutions offerings to operators across...

4Sight Holdings results reflect Industry 4.0 growth

4Sight Holdings, a multi-national, diversified, investment holding company specialising in Industry 4.0 technology, has announced the financial results for the year ended 31 December 2018 with revenue of $44,54-million, up from $11,98-million for the six-month period...

Netball South Africa partners with Telkom

Netball South Africa has secured Telkom as the naming rights partner to their domestic league which kick starts on 10 May 2019 in Pretoria. Telkom has been announced and unveiled as the new partner to Netball South Africa. This means that the league will be officially...

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