Channel veteran Gary Pickford leaves Tarsus
By Mark Davison - After more than 24 years in various roles at the group, Gary Pickford, CEO of Tarsus Distribution, has resigned from the company. Group chief financial officer Emile Burger will take up the reins of the company from Pickford. “It is with a heavy...
SA not progressing in cybersecurity readiness
Kathy Gibson reports - Cybersecurity readiness remains alarmingly low in 2025. Organisations are still struggling with many of the basics, compounded by new complexities introduced by AI and an ongoing skills shortages. This is according to Cisco’s 2025 Cybersecurity...
January sets new heat records
January 2024 was the warmest January on record globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 13,14°C – that’s 0,7°C above the 1991-2020 average for January and 0,12°C above the temperature of the previous warmest January, in 2020. This is according to...
Tablet shipments plumb new depths
Worldwide tablet shipments declined 17,4% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23), totaling 36,8-million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. This is the...
Meteoric growth forecast for AI PCs, GenAI smartphones
Worldwide shipments of AI PCs and generative AI (GenAI) smartphones are projected to total 295-million units by the end of 2024, up from 29-million units in 2023, according to a new forecast from Gartner. Gartner defines AI PCs as PCs that are equipped with dedicated...
What is an AI PC?
By Jane McEntegart - Chances are if you ask 10 different people “What is an AI PC?” you’ll get 10 different answers. But that’s true of the early days of any pivotal piece of technology. It’s hard to peer into the future and imagine what the world will look like. At...
AI PCs set to dominate
A new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows shipments of artificial intelligence (AI) PCs - personal computers with specific system-on-a-chip (SoC) capabilities designed to run generative AI tasks locally - growing from nearly 50-million units in...
Election drives DDoS attacks against Poland
Changes in political leadership can cause disruptions in many areas. One notable area is in the cyberspace, where DDoS attacks often spike with a change of the guard. These spikes often result from hacktivist and other groups opposing the viewpoints of newly elected...
The future of healthcare lies in digital solutions
Healthcare systems around the world are being put under increasing strain every year. Key challenges they face include overburdened medical staff and a steady rise in patients with chronic health conditions that require high levels of care. Digital health has long...
These are the top priorities for customer service, support leaders
Reimagining self-service, piloting employee-facing GenAI, and exploring new offerings in the customer journey analytics (CJA) market will be top priorities for customer service and support leaders in 2024, according to Gartner. A Gartner survey of 246 customer service...
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Adapt IT reports higher turnover, EBIDTA
JSE-listed Adapt IT, a software provider to the Education, Manufacturing, Energy, Financial Services, Communications and Hospitality sectors, has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2018. Adapt IT's strong annuity revenue base insulated...
Xperien expands into new premises
Due to a growing demand for professional IT Asset Disposal (ITAD) services in South Africa, Xperien has had to acquire larger facilities. The bigger premises will enable the company to provide new services to its clients including warehousing and PC reimaging and...
Santam to list on A2X Exchange
Santam, a general insurer with a market cap of more than R34-billion, will effect a secondary listing of its shares, on the A2X Markets exchange. Its shares will be available to trade on A2X from 1 February 2019. Santam retains its listings on the JSE and the Namibian...
Altron invests in SA youth
With unemployment and education remaining two of the most challenging issues facing South Africa, JSE-listed technology group Altron has awarded bursaries to more than 20 university students from around the country. On completion of their studies, the students, from...
Redstor looks to Australasia for revenue growth
Redstor, a leading UK-headquartered cloud data management SaaS business, is pressing ahead with aggressive growth plans to treble business by 2020. The appointment of Duan Botha as pre-sales manager for Australasia underlines Redstor's long-term strategy to accelerate...
e4 backs its strategic transformation plans
Fintech company, e4, which offers Software-as-a-Service driven digital solutions, has announced the appointment of Ntombi Mphokane, as its first HR and transformation executive. Responsible for all aspects of HR and transformation across the Group, Mphokane says this...
Tibco commits to SA transformation with TechSoft
Tibco Software, a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, has signed a historic and strategic partnership agreement with TechSoft International (TechSoft), formerly Tibco South Africa. TechSoft is now Tibco's strategic sub-Sahara partner with...
BT gets domestic telecoms licences in China
BT has become the first international telecommunications company to receive nationwide licences from the China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The two 'value added licences', China nationwide Domestic IP-VPN licence and China nationwide Internet...
Mobile transaction trends in 2019
2019 is set to be a big year for the next-generation transactional sector, with disruption increasingly coming to market and long-standing challenges being overcome, says Kobus du Plooy, CEO of transactional platform provider, Celbux. "The ecosystem has evolved to...
Security implications for 5G and IoT
The advent of 5G networks is about much more than just incredibly fast speeds and more reliable connections, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, regional sales director for Fortinet in South Africa. When combined with today's powerful edge devices -- whether consumer-grade...
Senior CRM Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
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CX Support Engineer – Level 3 at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Randburg
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