SA is under cyberattack, with a leak every minute

South Africa is coming under increasingly heavy attack, with 369 600 accounts leaked so far this year. The second quarter of the year hit a high of one user account leaked every minute. The latest study by cybersecurity company Surfshark ranks South Africa as the 27th...

How to manage a growing robotic workforce

Eighty percent of humans will engage with smart robots on a daily basis, and one in 20 supply chain managers will manage robots, rather than humans, by 2030, according to Gartner. Organisations are placing greater emphasis on enhancing the capabilities of their...

SA companies go all-in on AI adoption

Kathy Gibson reports – South African corporates are fully embracing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), which is well on its way to being used as a mature and useful tool. This is the headline finding from the South African GenAI Roadmap 2025 presented today...

Global IT spend to hit $5,43trn this year

Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $5,43-trillion in 2025, an increase of 7,9% from 2024, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “While there is a business pause on net-new spending due to a spike in global uncertainty, the effect is subsumed by ongoing...

Global coal fleet inches up

Global operating coal capacity grew by 2% in 2023 - with China driving two-thirds of new additions - and a small uptick was seen for the first time since 2019 in the rest of the world, according to Global Energy Monitor's annual survey of the global coal fleet. But...

EV charging beyond the utility grid

Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE (internal combustion engine) construction in favour of BEVs (battery electric vehicles). Passenger cars are not the only sectors...

SA among top countries losing money to data breaches

New research has revealed the top 10 countries losing the most money to data breaches - and South Africa features in 10th place with an average data breach cost of $3 210 000. A study by Proxyrack looked into the countries and industries losing the most money to data...

Targeted ransomware doubled in 2022

During the first 10 months of 2022, the proportion of users attacked by targeted ransomware has almost doubled compared to the same period of 2021. Such a striking growth indicates that ransomware gangs have continued mastering their techniques - the infamous ones as...

TB R&D funding passes $1bn but falls short of goals

For the first time in history, funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) hit a billion dollars worldwide in 2021. This marked a significant milestone that nonetheless falls significantly short of what's needed to stay on track to end TB,...

$30bn pledged to bring the world online

Commitments worth $29,92-billion have been pledged since March to bring the world's hardest-to-connect communities online, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for ICT. The total commitments, coming in 578...

Privacy-preserving AI technique improves brain tumour detection

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning - a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach - to help international...

Sharp decline for African smartphone market

Newly-released data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Africa's overall mobile phone market suffered a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 19,9% in Q3 2022 to total 42,2-million units. The feature phone market was down 20,1% YoY to 24,4-million...

New date set for analogue switch-off

The Broadcast Digital Migration is almost complete and a new analogue switch-off date, and end of dual illumination period, has been set for 31 March 2023. In making the announcement of her intention to switch off the analogue signal on that date, Minister of...

What will the future of work look like?

With global attention divided between many disruptors, the future of work is fraught with many unknowns, from where and how work will be done to how economic pressures will change job opportunities to how social, skills, and climate concerns will have a broad impact....

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Genasys, Hitachi Consulting to deliver Insurance in a Box

Genasys Technologies is working with Hitachi Consulting on its Insurance in a Box solution. Genasys will be providing the core policy administration system that has been combined with Hitachi Consulting's integration accelerator framework and advanced use of...

Node Africa selects Workonline as upstream provider

Node Africa, the East African provider of bespoke cloud infrastructure solutions, has chosen privately owned global Network Service Provider Workonline Communications as its IP transit provider. Workonline is one of the top three ASN's in Africa and one of Africa's...

ESET stands out in leadership awards

ESET has been awarded the highest designation in the Innovation, Product, Market and Overall Leader categories in the 2018 Kuppinger Cole Leadership Compass Enterprise Endpoint Security: Anti-Malware Solutions. The annual report by Kuppinger Cole examines the key...

Gemalto, Casio bring education into the 21st century

Gemalto has partnered with Casio, a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics products and business equipment solutions, to enable Casio to bring digital education into the classroom and beyond. The move will help Casio continue its leadership in classroom...

Velocity Group chooses HPE SimpliVity

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Avaya and Afiniti bring AI to the contact centre

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Defining ourselves in a virtual world

SAP Africa's Head of Innovation and South Africa's Mars One candidate, Dr Adriana Marais, talks about taking back ownership of our identities in the digital world, through the compelling application of blockchain. We're bringing information and devices online at an...

Africa benefits from late mover advantage in the cloud

Established information technology markets - like the UK, Europe and even South Africa - often take cloud computing for granted as the ideal platform for innovation and global expansion. One reason could be that these markets gradually adopted cloud computing as and...

Data key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe

Human exploration has made leaps and bounds since man first landed on the moon in 1969. We have now entered a paradigm where data takes centre stage, writes Morne Bekker, country manager of NetApp South Africa. Of course creating a 3D map of over one billion stars,...

Roles (not jobs) rule in the digital era

It is true to say that much of our identity comes from our jobs. Our economy builds on these and the types of jobs that are in demand (and their distribution and compensation) are often a proxy for what society considers important. The trouble is, jobs as a term feels...

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