African startups look to new investors

Kathy Gibson reports from AI Everything and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – Africa’s exciting and innovative start-ups are attracting interest from investors in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Investors from these regions are arguably more aligned to the continent’s...

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...

Interest in crypto-stealing drainers surges

Dark web threads discussing crypto-drainers – malware designed to swiftly drain cryptocurrency wallets – saw a significant rise in 2024, as revealed by the latest Kaspersky Security Bulletin. Kaspersky also reported a 40% spike in corporate database ads on a prominent...

Microsoft still top brand for phishing

In the fourth quarter, Microsoft retained its position as the most imitated brand, accounting for 32% of all brand phishing attempts, according to the latest Brand Phishing Ranking for Q4 2024 from Check Point Research (CPR). Apple held on to the second position with...

AMD shares tech behind confidential computing in the cloud

AMD has published the source code for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, the backbone of AMD EPYCTM processor-based confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) available from cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google...

Global smartphone shipments set to plummet

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 4,7% year over year in 2023 to 1,15-billion units, the lowest volume in a decade, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This is a downward revision from...

Avoid wellbeing washing with hybrid work

Post-Covid, many companies are making an effort to show they care. Better hours, working from home, lunchtime yoga classes - and stats suggest that employees value these initiatives. IWG's Hybrid Talent Magnet study found that 88% of HR executives believed they would...

Cybercrime threatens African digitalisation

With cybercrime increasingly posing a significant risk to enterprises globally, cybersecurity experts in South Africa are forecasting more challenging times ahead as threat actors exploit emerging innovations to launch sophisticated cyberattacks. Driven by heightened...

Infrastructure issues the top challenge to healthcare ecosystem

Healthcare leaders and younger healthcare professionals share a common vision for a more distributed healthcare system, powered by a dual-focus on creating a new future-fit paradigm of care delivery, while strengthening its current foundation. This is among the...

Research contests a new attack method

Sophos has uncovered how research contests run by cybercrime forums are helping to inspire new methods of attack and detection evasion. The contests mirror legitimate security conference 'Call For Papers' and provide the winners considerable financial rewards and...

Why Saffers don’t post pics with partners

According to the Digital Superstitions survey by Kaspersky, 43% of the respondents from South Africa do not post photos with their partners or spouses on social networks. Posting personal photos on social media can have certain negative consequences. Due to data...

Fujifilm, IBM develop 50Tb native tape storage system

Fujifilm and IBM have announced the development of a 50Tb native tape storage system, featuring what is believed to be the world's highest native data tape cartridge capacity. Fujifilm has begun production of a high-density tape cartridge for use with IBM's newest...

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Why ethics must be at the heart of AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are more than trendy or futuristic topics - they are real computing advances that are playing out in homes and businesses today. By Zoaib Hoosen, MD of Microsoft SA In simple terms, AI is a machine's ability to...

How edtech will shape the school of the future

E-learning, analytics, mobile apps, learning management systems, learning content repositories and tech enabled communications: jargon to many, but essential to shape the school of the future. In South Africa, there is a chasm to cross. In 2011, 49% of grade 9...

Get the benefits from governance reporting

The first reports and disclosures in line with King IV principles are beginning to appear. King IV is effective in respect of financial years starting on or after 1 April 2017. It would appear that certain organisations still require a deeper understanding of the...

SA a breeding ground for cyber attacks

As markets in fast growing economies race to join the digital revolution they are fast being hijacked by cybercriminals, who are preying on security vulnerabilities in some fledgling IT environments. By Keith Matthews, country manager: South Africa at Orange Business...

Data fuels the intelligent enterprise of the future

The speed of digitalisation has left organisations pondering whether their current solutions can keep up with their existing business requirements, let alone give the organisation a platform upon which to innovate. By Drushen Naidoo, senior value advisor: financial...

Tailored change management takes Agile further

Agile is being picked up in software development but also other parts of the organisation, such as marketing, finance, and other divisions. This is according to Scott Ambler and Mark Lines, world authorities on agile development, at IndigoCube's Business Agility event...

South Africans spot opportunities in US

The First National Bank (FNB) estate agent survey for the first quarter of 2018, South Africans selling their homes for the purposes of emigration has grown from 2% in 2008 to 7,4% of total selling by the fourth quarter 2017 survey, and has remained at that figure for...

Measure the return on customer experience

Local customer experience (CX) platform developer and provider inQuba today announced the launch of its Journey Analytics solution. Journey Analytics provides a means to map out the actual journey customers take when engaging their providers, and allows companies to...

Mobile-only engagement disrupts insurance

When it comes to the insurance sector, it is mobile-only as insurance brands grapple with disruption from lighter, more agile technology rich cloud insurance products, says Ryan Barlow, chief technology officer of e4. "It is no longer just mobile-first, thanks to the...

Obsidian, HashiCorp partner on data centre architecture

Open Source technology and services specialist Obsidian Systems has become an official HashiCorp partner and will provide the South African market with access to next generation data centre management solutions. HashiCorp was established in 2012 to revolutionise data...

Service Desk Agent – Western Cape Cape Town

National retailer is looking for a Service Desk Agent to to provide first-line support service to all their stores, HO, DC, and to administer the day-to-day operations of the Service DeskNational retailer is looking for a Service Desk Agent to to provide first-line...

IT Technician – Free State Free State

Minimum RequirementsNational Senior CertificateTertiary IT Qualification related to IT Technical Services Strong knowledge and experience with high-volume printersProven hands-on experience in working with CCTV systemsValid driver's license, to support mobility and...

(PrEng PrTechEng or PrTech) Non-Sewered Sanitation Technical Specialist

PurposeThe Technical Specialist is responsible for the technical aspects of the development and establishment of the Non- Sewered Sanitation (NSS) Programme as a standardised initiative within the WPO. Oversee the development of a comprehensive toolbox of standardised...

Data Consultant

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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...

Data Consultant – KwaZulu-Natal Kloof

Data ConsultantIn this role you will be providing consultative support to our clients . Collaborating with internal departments to ensure that their rates are seamlessly and accurately implemented and updatedJob description (Details of the position i.e. duties):Admin-...

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...

IT Test Analyst at Titanium Talent

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