Cybercriminals target Africa’s $832bn mobile money boom
Africa has emerged as a global leader in mobile money adoption, a financial revolution connecting millions and driving economic growth. Yet this digital frontier has also attracted a surge in sophisticated fraud, threatening to undermine the very foundations of this...
Africa Energy Bank gains momentum
Nigeria, Angola and Ghana have fulfilled their capital commitments toward establishing the Africa Energy Bank (AEB), representing 44% of the minimum required funding from African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO) members to initiate the bank's operations. This...
AMD fires up AI, compute capabilities
AMD and Microsoft featured how AMD products, including the upcoming AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator, AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Ryzen CPUs with AI engines, are enabling new services and compute capabilities across cloud and generative AI, Confidential Computing, Cloud...
Nvidia to accelerate AI workloads on Azure
Nvidia continues to collaborate with Microsoft to build AI infrastructure, with Microsoft introducing additional H100-based virtual machines to Microsoft Azure to accelerate demanding AI workloads. At its Ignite conference in Seattle yesterday, Microsoft announced its...
New Equinix data centre will host JINX
Equinix has announced that JINX, the Johannesburg Internet Exchange Point, will be available in its new JN1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre at launch in mid-2024. Established in June 1996, JINX is Africa's longest running exchange point, boasting a...
Most South Africans struggle with workplace stress
A massive 85% of South Africans grapple with stress at their jobs - but that only 39% of employees find their wellbeing programmes "fairly effective". This is according to a new survey by insuretech YuLife and IPSOS, which shares that another 32% of respondents found...
Intel showcases scientific supercomputers
Intel has showcased AI-accelerated high performance computing (HPC) with leadership performance for HPC and AI workloads across Intel Data Centre GPU Max Series, Intel Gaudi2 AI accelerators and Intel Xeon processors. In partnership with Argonne National Laboratory,...
AMD shines in latest Top500 list
AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct accelerators continue to be the solutions of choice for many of the most innovative, energy-efficient and fastest supercomputers in the world. AMD now powers 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list representing a 39%...
Teraco completes Durban data centre expansion
Teraco has announced the completion of the expansion project at its DB1 facility - the largest data centre in KwaZulu-Natal. As South Africa's third-largest city, with a population of over 3-million people, home to thriving digitally connected enterprises and a key...
Young scientists fly the SA flag at Turkey science fair
Two South African young scientists will present their scientific research at this year's Buca International Music, Science, Engineering Energy Fair (IMSEF) in Turkey. The Buca IMSEF is an international conference held in Izmir, Turkey annually from 20 to 25 November...
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Sign language translator on the cards
The world's first machine capable of turning British Sign Language (BSL) into written English is set to be built by the University of Surrey as part of a project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. BSL is a language in its own right, with...
Finance is undergoing a revolution
Speakers opening the FinTech track on day one of Finance Indaba in Sandton painted a picture of unprecedented transaction and settlement speeds, new opportunities for financial services and enhanced transactional trust and security, thanks to FinTech innovation...
The non-profit charity school that is changing South Africa
Christel House is not just another school for impoverished students. It delivers dynamic systemic change to the problems that keep our people chained in poverty and crime. The day starts at 7 am. Children arrive on buses from nearby communities such as Philippi, Langa...
Fujitsu, NVidia empower students with advanced AI
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Cell C extends ShoutOut promo
Cell C has extended its ShoutOut social bundle promotion until the end of January 2019. "Customers have really seen the value in our ShoutOut bundles. With the holiday season coming up, we have decided to extend the promotion to ensure that customers are kept...
Erase data across every IT asset
Xperien has partnered with Blancco, a global provider for secure data erasure solutions, to help customers erase data securely across every IT asset, creating a 100% tamper-proof audit trail to ensure total compliance. Each erasure is verified and certified, resulting...
Oracle names new VP: sub-Saharan Africa
Oracle has announced the appointment of Andrew Sordam as vice-president for sub-Saharan Africa with immediate effect. Sordam takes over from Cherian Varghese who has been named as the regional MD and vice-president for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and...
Data centre energy efficiency a priority
As our appetite for all things IT and digital continues to grow, the need for data centres continues to grow, with more and more data centres erected, and much bigger than they were before. This places a tremendous amount of pressure on the electrical power utility...
Vox helps SA businesses get cloud ready
Vox, has introduced a comprehensive IT Advisory portfolio to assist medium-to large-sized businesses review current IT strategies or set new ones, particularly making the shift from on-premise to the cloud. The IT Alignment Audit is a dynamic assessment that provides...
A new approach to better information security
Despite having tools, solutions and processes in place to protect their information assets, businesses remain at significant risk from attacks. Too many of them simply cannot detect when large amounts of data are leaving their networks. This isn't surprising really....
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