Massive increase in ransomware attacks
Alarming new findings from NordStellar reveal that ransomware attacks are skyrocketing, causing serious concerns to businesses around the world. Up to 20 March 2025, 2 040 new ransomware cases were made public on the dark web, which marks an 81% increase compared to...
Reset expectations about AI’s impact on productivity and headcount
Despite artificial intelligence’s (AI) promise for enhancing efficiency, many organisations struggle to turn investments in traditional and generative AI (GenAI) into material improvements in worker productivity, according to a survey by Gartner. Gartner's survey of...
Finalists for Africa Tech Festival Awards 2023
The winners of the Africa Tech Festival Awards will be unveiled at a gala event in Cape Town next week following the announcement of this year's finalists looking to bridge the digital divide across Africa. "It is an exciting time to be in technology and...
Details from Webb cameras reveal crabby composition
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the Crab Nebula, 6 500 light-years away, in this image released on 30 October 2023. While these remains of an exploded star have been well-studied by multiple observatories, including the Hubble Space...
Tablets and Chromebooks continue to decline
Worldwide tablet shipments posted a decline of 14,2% year over year in the third quarter of 2023 (3Q23), totaling 33,2-million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker....
Sales enablement leaders falling short of expectations
Despite sales organisations investing in sales enablement initiatives, 77% of sellers report that they struggle to complete their assigned tasks efficiently, according to a new survey by Gartner, aiming to understand sellers' sentiment and emotional reactions toward...
Vehicle telematics on the road to recovery
More than 47,2-million aftermarket telematics devices were sold worldwide during 2022 - corresponding to a market value of €2,4-billion - according to a new report on vehicle telematics hardware from Berg Insight. The performance of the market was still affected by...
Pretoria Zoo’s Cape vulture breeding programme flying high
Looking to safeguard the future of the species, The National Zoological Garden (NZG) in Pretoria continues to make significant strides with its Cape vulture breeding programme. "Right now there are two vulture chicks on the nest," says Tracy Rehse, conservation...
Data management workloads drive enterprise infrastructure spend
Structured Databases/Data Management workloads are driving the largest share of enterprise IT infrastructure spending in the first half of 2023 (1H23), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker:...
APT campaign targeting APAC governments uncovered
Kaspersky researchers have discovered a persistent campaign compromising a specific type of secure USB drive used to provide encryption for safe data storage. Dubbed "TetrisPhantom", this espionage effort targets government entities in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC)...
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Take a human centric approach to security
Every time the details of a new security breach hits the headlines, something is made clear: Security tools and solutions aren’t working. Yet businesses continue to throw more and more money and technology at the problem. It’s time to look at the human factor, which...
AYO buys majority stake in Sizwe
AYO Technology Solutions is acquiring a 55% equity stake in Sizwe Africa IT Group for an estimated R165-million. The investment into Sizwe is set to more than double AYO’s revenue and significantly contribute to growing its bottom line. Sizwe has a broad base of blue...
Acceleration bootcamp from IBM, Tshimologong
IBM South Africa, through its Equity Equivalence Investment Programme (EEIP) together with Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, have announced the launch of a startup accelerator taking place from 8 October to 16 November 2018. The Startup Accelerator is...
JDA partners with Microsoft in the cloud
JDA Software has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to enable JDA to build cognitive SaaS solutions on the market-leading Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This will, in turn, accelerate JDA’s vision to deliver an Autonomous Supply Chain through an...
Why many customers fail with cloud
At the recent Dell EMC Africa Partner Summit, partners from all over Africa gathered in one place to share information, and many of those discussions focused on cloud. Brad Pulford, GM for Channel & Distribution at Dell EMC South Africa offers insight into why...
Eaton appoints Mustek for sub-Saharan Africa
Power management company Eaton South Africa has appointed Mustek as a distributor for its Power Quality Portfolio of products in sub-Saharan Africa, with effect from 1 September 2018. The portfolio includes Eaton's 5E, 3, 5 and 9 Series Uninterruptible Power Supplies...
10X-e, Alphacode accelerate top fintechs
10X-e, will partner with the fintech incubator subsidiary of RMI, Alphacode to support South Africa's top fintechs on their path to scale. The collaboration will initially see five of South Africa's highest-profile fintech companies investing two years in scaling up...
Paranoia and personas to secure IoT
The low-cost, low-power nature of the IoT can cause security considerations to be deferred till much later in the product implementation stage, or sometimes, indefinitely. By Sherry Zameer senior vice-president: IoT at Gemalto However to realize IoT's true potential,...
FlySafair uses tech to speed check-in
FlySafair has launched Express Check-In, a new technology that allows the airline to service passengers more quickly than ever before. Express Check-In, which has already been rolled out at all the airports from which FlySafair operates, enables the airline's queue...
SAS, Redington in East African partnership
According to independent research, the global business intelligence and analytics market is accelerating at break-neck pace and is poised to grow at around 10,3% in 2019, reaching an estimated value of $27-billion by 2020. Emerging markets are set to grow at an even...
Systems Administrator: Networks at The University of The Western Cape – Western Cape Bellville
Systems Administrator: Networks Information and Communication Services (ICS) The Information & Communication Services (ICS) Department at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) delivers a broad range of best practice Information & Communication Technology...
Full Stack Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg Region
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