Pilot to production: the challenge of African developers

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa has no shortage of ideas, use cases and innovation when it comes to developing AI applications. But having a great idea, or an elegant algorithm, doesn’t necessarily translate into a bankable...

As economies shift, Africa urged to follow the money

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa is enjoying a renaissance as it embraces technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive its future growth. But there is a danger that the continent will remain a mere consumer of the...

SA holds its own as global AI adoption accelerates

Worldwide adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the first quarter of 2026, according to Microsoft’s Global AI Diffusion Q1 2026 Trends and Insights report from its AI Economy Institute. During the quarter, AI usage increased by 1,5 percentage points...

Enterprise AI hits the wall

Enterprise AI is outgrowing the architecture and infrastructure beneath it as data privacy and sovereignty requirements tighten, according to new research from NTT Data. The latest research finds a widening split between enterprises that are redesigning AI for...

ACSA reports a good festive season

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) is proud to report a highly successful performance during the 2024 peak travel period, recording a 91% recovery to pre-pandemic levels and a 5% year on year increase in total passenger traffic. Marking the culmination of a bustling...

Asteroid under observation as it nears Earth

The European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Defence Office is closely monitoring the recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 27 December 2024 at the Asteroid...

Most of us have an unhealthy relationship with work

The world's relationship with work is at a breaking point - and its effects are pervasive. This is the headline finding from the first HP Work Relationship Index, a study exploring employees' relationships with work. The study polled more than 15 600 respondents...

Companies brace for repeated cyberattacks

Around 24% of employees have never had any cybersecurity training, according to a new study by NordLocker. Employees often get the blame for phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, and malware infections, but respondents feel the organisations should be accountable. The...

Prehistoric fish fills 100m year gap in evolution of the skull

A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper published in Nature yesterday (20 September), researchers from the University of Birmingham, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre...

African industrial systems are under attack

Malicious objects of all types were detected and blocked on 34% of Industrial Control System (ICS) computers in the first half of 2023, according to the ICS CERT landscape report by Kaspersky. In Africa over this period attacks were detected on 40,3% of ICS computers,...

AMD extends edge solutions

AMD has announced AMD Kria K24 System-on-Module (SOM) and KD240 Drives Starter Kit, the latest additions to the Kria portfolio of adaptive SOMs and developer kits. AMD Kria K24 SOM offers power-efficient compute in a small form factor and targets cost-sensitive...

Investment in GRC tools set to surge

Legal and compliance department investment in governance, risk, and compliance tools will increase 50% by 2026, says Gartner, with assurance leaders seeking out technology solutions to help them address increasing regulatory attention on executive risk oversight and...

Another slow year for AR/VR headsets

Worldwide augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headset shipments declined for the fourth quarter in a row as volumes fell 44,6% YoY during the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...

SABS publishes technical spec for climate change

The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has published a South African technical specification (SATS) which enables local government and communities to implement a framework to prepare for and manage the impact of climate change. SATS 14092 (2023): Adaptation to...

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Africa: A hub for innovation

With a population of more than 1,2-billion people, 54 countries, and foreign direct investment (FDI) totalling $59-billion in 2016, Africa presents organisations across industry sectors with ample business opportunities. Annalie Terblanche, product manager at...

Netshield debuts GSM Power Monitor IoT Gateway

Netshield has launched its next generation Inline GSM Power Monitor IoT Gateway, the ideal accompaniment for services businesses looking for a cost effective and easy to deploy means to remotely monitor for business disruptions; such as power, temperature, humidity,...

Arcserve opens regional office

Arcserve - the data backup and availability pioneer - today announced the opening of Arcserve Southern Africa. Arcserve solutions and services have a long and highly successful history in the South and sub-Saharan African region but this is the first time the company...

MTN to launch voice over LTE

MTN has introduced a voice over LTE (VoLTE) service to selected smartphones and will be marketed as high definition voice (HD Voice). Supporting our drive for technology excellence, the HD Voice service will allow customers to benefit from voice calls in clear,...

SatADSL and Marlink partner to expand coverage

SatADSL, a provider of professional VSAT services via satellite, and Marlink Group (Marlink) have announced a new partnership which will grow both companies' offerings worldwide. Under the agreement, SatADSL will be able to link directly to Marlink's Newtec Dialog(r)...

Dropbox partners with CloudSmiths

CloudSmiths, a local Salesforce Platinum Consulting Partner, has teamed up with Dropbox to offer companies in South Africa Dropbox Business. Dropbox Business is a collaboration platform that allows businesses and teams to collaborate and have access to their files...

Email hackers defeated by AI

Email is a regular method of attack for the cybercriminal because it is the easiest and most successful way to spread high-risk threats. This makes it one of the most popular vectors in a hacker's arsenal. The thing with hacking an email account is that the hacked...

Mitigate WAN complexity with SD Branch

Technology has entrenched itself into the way we do business, becoming the fundamental foundation of virtually any organisation. By Pieter Engelbrecht, HPE Aruba business unit manager: sub-Saharan Africa For IT departments, this has created incredible complexity as...

Consumer buy-in vital for digital transition

It's no secret that the Fourth Industrial Revolution has officially begun. The era of intersection between people and machines is among us, with more industries embracing the new technologies that are available. By William Mzimba, chief officer at Vodacom Business...

What Nigerian children do online

Kaspersky Lab has revealed the online activities of children across Nigeria, based on statistics from the company's Parental Control modules. The research has revealed what children in the region watched, listened to, purchased and searched for online. The report...

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