5G, AI are key drivers for telco growth
5G and artificial intelligence (AI) are driving growth in the telecommunications and mobile industry. This is according to GSMA Intelligence’s new “Global Mobile Trends 2025” report that examines key verticals within the telecom/mobile industry. In terms of enterprise...
How Cell C users can protect themselves after security breach
RansomHouse is claiming responsibility for a cybersecurity attack at Cell C, where some customer data may have been compromised. The latest attack follows a previously reported incident involving unauthorised access to unstructured data in some parts of our IT...
New AWS chips take on foundation model training
Amazon Web Services has announced the next generation of two AWS-designed chip families - AWS Graviton4 and AWS Trainium2 - delivering advancements in price performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of customer workloads, including machine learning (ML)...
What COP28 could mean for Africa
The 28th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, more commonly referred to as COP28, brings together global leaders, experts, impacted communities, and decision-makers to continue efforts aimed at solving the world’s...
SA consumers hit hard by fraudsters
The scams deluge that flourished during the Covid-19 pandemic and proliferates yet today has heightened the public's fraud anxiety, according to a new consumer fraud study by SAS, and rampant fraud is also reshaping individuals' expectations about organisations'...
Deepfake incidents on the rise
Deepfake cyberattacks are on the rise, with South Africa seeing a massive 1 200% increase in deepfake fraud this year. This is among the findings from Sumsub's third annual Identity Fraud Report, which analyses identity fraud across industries and regions based on...
Software engineering set to embrace AI practices
Transformational technologies, including AI-augmented software engineering (AIASE), AI coding assistants and platform engineering, will reach mainstream adoption in two to five years, according to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Software Engineering, 2023. “AI-augmented...
Take-home pay, private pensions slowed in October
After three consecutive months of increases, the BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI), which measures the average nominal take-home pay among about 4-million salary earners in South Africa, showed a slight downturn. “The nominal average take-home pay was R15 535...
Enterprise IT budgets are on the increase
Omdia's 10th annual IT Enterprise Insights study has revealed that IT has become one of the main drivers of value to an enterprise, with almost three-quarters (74%) of respondents confirming increases to their overall budget allocated to enterprise IT in 2023 compared...
SA corporate social investment grows to R11,8bn
South African companies spent an estimated R11,8-billion on corporate social investment (CSI) in the 2023 financial year, according to corporate responsibility consultancy Trialogue's latest research findings. The spend reflects an 8% nominal and 1% real increase from...
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Automation is a key part of digital transformation, and has the potential to improve all aspects of business. "As companies race to achieve digital transformation, the outcome for companies applying automation can be dramatic," says Tony Beeston, product marketing...
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FNB enables home sales in the app
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Mobile technologies’ growing role in BPO
Business process outsourcing (BPO) has long since played a role in cutting costs for businesses. An 'on and off again' trend, BPO is now facing what industry specialists call a 'technology enabled transformation'. Cassie Lessing, MD of Strato IT Group, says that...
Make the move to the cloud safe
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AI: it’s in your home
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Datatec role for Marco de Lima
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MiX Telematics quarterly margin growth
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Fujitsu to add NVMe to its storage portfolio
Fujitsu has unveiled plans for future purpose-built NVMe storage products, designed to complement its existing portfolio of Eternus DX hybrid and Eternus AF all-flash systems. The future ultra-high-speed storage systems will support Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)...
Cyber risk ranked #1 for educational sector
Cyber threats are no longer a rarity, they are expected. With recent ransomware attacks such as WannaCry and NotPetya, the potential theft or leakage of data, particularly confidential information in an educational setting, should be top of the list in risk planning....
Full-stack Developer (C#) – LM – Gauteng Johannesburg
Translate business needs to technical specifications. Design, build and deploy applications. Conduct unit testing and troubleshooting. Evaluate and improve Development standards. Collaborate with teams to integrate systems. User management. Security management....
Senior DevOps Support Engineer
Responsibilities/Tasks: Design, development, implementation, migration and support of a comprehensive build and release management process and technical solution to support the development processes, using existing tools as a starting point, but building on the same...
Project Manager IT
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Project Manager, who can manage multiple projects and have a functional understanding of Postilion systems and payments landscape. The ideal candidate must meet the following criteria: Job Accountabilities: Define the scope...
Senior DevOps Support Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
Responsibilities/Tasks: Design, development, implementation, migration and support of a comprehensive build and release management process and technical solution to support the development processes, using existing tools as a starting point, but building on the same...
Project Manager IT – Western Cape Newlands
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Project Manager, who can manage multiple projects and have a functional understanding of Postilion systems and payments landscape. The ideal candidate must meet the following criteria: Job Accountabilities: Define the scope...
BI Developer
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Support Technician
Are you a seasoned IT professional ready to take your career to the next level? We're on the hunt for a dynamic Support Technician to join our forward-thinking client to help drive IT services to new heights.What You'll Bring:Experience: A minimum of 6 years in the...
BI Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
Our client is seeking a BI Developer to join their team, based in Johannesburg.Successful candidate will be responsible for end to end BI development, support, monitoring, analysis and maintenance within the BI and Data Warehouse environment/s, as well as general BI...
Support Technician – KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg
Are you a seasoned IT professional ready to take your career to the next level? We're on the hunt for a dynamic Support Technician to join our forward-thinking client to help drive IT services to new heights.What You'll Bring:Experience: A minimum of 6 years in the...
Senior UI Developer
Our client is looking for a candidate with 8 years or more experience in UI Development. Key Requirements 8-10 years development experience.Very strong UI development skills (Minimum 5 years' experience)Angular (2+)Angular materialBootstrapNodeJSNX (mono repo, shared...
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