Second Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program completed
Qualcomm has announced the successful completion of the second year of its Make in Africa Startup Mentorship Program, culminating in the Make in Africa Finale 2024. Now in its second year, this program has successfully guided early-stage technology startups by...
Microsoft leverages AI to fast-track African start-ups
Microsoft, through the company’s Africa Transformation Office (ATO), has unveiled an initiative that will accelerate advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and foster collaboration between startups and industry leaders. The initiative will also mark the launch...
ChatGPT beats Google in blind test
Two-thirds (65,3%) of people selected the websites provided by ChatGPT as a better match for their query than websites provided by Google, says a new study from digital marketing consultancy, ClickPop. For the research, ClickPop created a tool to compare people's...
Data centre security solutions downgraded
Enterprise spend on network security technologies focused on campus, branch, and user edge deployments will offset the increased weakness of data centre security solutions, according to a new report from Dell'Oro. "During the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, spending...
SA Entrepreneur of the Year competition revived
Despite a few harrowing years marked by lockdowns, persistent infrastructural problems, the ongoing energy crisis, and muted economic growth, South Africa's entrepreneurs have continued to show their mettle - and the relaunch of the Business Partners Entrepreneur of...
Chinese smartphone market declines
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 65,7-million smartphones shipped in China in 2Q23, a narrower decline of 2,1% compared to the same period last year. In the first half of the year, the Chinese market saw 130,9-million shipments, down 7,3%...
Webb snaps detailed image of actively forming stars
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the "antics" of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes in the featured image until you...
Macroeconomic, geopolitical conditions pose severe risks
With the world facing growing economic instability and political tensions, volatility in geoeconomic and geopolitical relations between major economies are likely to result in global upheavals over the next six months, according to a new survey of the World Economic...
Intel adds AI reference kits
Intel now offers a set of 34 open source AI reference kits to the community, the result of a years-long collaboration with Accenture, enabling developers and data scientists to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) faster and more easily. Each kit includes model code,...
IaaS cloud networking starting to gain in importance
The importance of networking to and within cloud environments has grown significantly for enterprise customers as more and more applications, workloads, and data are moved to the cloud, with IDC estimating that worldwide revenue for public cloud-based infrastructure...
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Africa must find a global health voice
If developing countries don't push for greater influence in global health organisations, they will face even greater health crises, like less affordable access to vital medicine. This is according to Dr Aquina Thulare, technical advisor on National Health Insurance in...
Fujitsu derisks the service integrator journey
Fujitsu has launches its new EMEIA-wide Service Provider Program, developed for and by partners. Designed to address the long-term shift in the way customers of all size are moving from a product-centric approach to a greater focus on IT-as-service, Fujitsu is...
How to safeguard personal information
By now, it's well known that the IT systems of insurance giant, Liberty Life, were breached by cybercriminals late on Thursday 14 June. David Munro, CEO of Liberty, had this to say regarding the attack: "It's fair to say an event like this is not something one can...
Sunbet debuts new online betting platform
Sunbet, Sun International's sportsbook, have unveiled their new website following the announcement of their partnership with the digital platform specialists, Bede Gaming and Kambi. Kambi's end-to-end sports betting solution has been integrated with a back-end...
HomeFixer announces Hirsch collaboration
South Africa's recently-launched home improvement app, HomeFixer, has announced a partnership with Hirsch's, one of South Africa's most well-known independent home appliances and furniture store. HomeFixer founder and MD, Renaldo Bothma, says that the home improvement...
Cisco, NetApp simplify cloud infrastructure delivery
Cisco and NetApp have announced new FlexPod solutions, combining Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with NetApp data services to help organizations accelerate application delivery and transition to a hybrid cloud with a trusted platform for innovation. The new...
Securing and regulating IoT
In the data centre, servers, storage and, more recently, networks are highly automated, and the processes are "industrialised". However, in the case of IT security, point solutions and manual work still seem to prevail. Simon Bryden, consulting systems engineer at...
How to protect your kids online
Children know how to play online games, get updates on their favorite celebrities, find the latest music hits, chat with their equally tech-savvy peers, or ask the Internet for answers to their questions that they might be too embarrassed to ask others. However,...
Smart home basics: creating a reliable LAN
Smart homes are supposed to simplify our lives and make our homes more convenient. But without a reliable internet connection and local area network, your smart devices can go offline and underperform, which can create more stress than convenience. To make sure that...
Digital printers and digital workflows
Printing doesn't have to be complicated, but, let's face it: for every user who wants something different from that machine, the complexity increases. By Karl Boissonneault, vice-president: channel partners group at Xerox Canada What started as printing a piece of...
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Ready to Join the Ranks of Innovators? iOCO Infrastructure Services Awaits.We are looking for a Desktop Engineer II with a knack for solving complex IT issues, ensuring seamless operation of hardware, software, and network systems. Adept at providing top-tier...
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Gijima Staffing Solutions is recruiting on behalf of our client for a Technical Specialist.Minimum requirementsGrade 12 and relevant degree/diploma (3 years)3 years relevant experience (preferable experienced broadly across multiple areas of IT)Additional...
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Ready to Join the Ranks of Innovators? iOCO Infrastructure Services Awaits.We are looking for a Desktop Engineer II with a knack for solving complex IT issues, ensuring seamless operation of hardware, software, and network systems. Adept at providing top-tier...
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Our Client is looking for a talented Full-Stack Developer to join their team and help build innovative, user-friendly solutions. A Developer skilled in web and mobile technologies responsible for the design, testing, implementation and maintenance of software...
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Full-Stack Developer – Gauteng Centurion
Our Client is looking for a talented Full-Stack Developer to join their team and help build innovative, user-friendly solutions. A Developer skilled in web and mobile technologies responsible for the design, testing, implementation and maintenance of software...
Desktop Support Analyst – Western Cape Cape Town
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We are looking for a Technical Systems Engineer to join our team based in Cape Town. The purpose of the Technical Systems Engineer is to effectively drive system availability, performing technical support and system administration activities, and providing efficient,...
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Data Scientist (Scorecard & Pricing) | Groundbreaking Firm in Digital BankingLocation: JohannesburgModel: Hybrid (1 day in office - Tuesday)Salary: Level dependent.Are you ready to take your analytics game to the next level?My client is an ambitious, innovative...
Technical Systems Engineer at Datonomy Solutions – Western Cape Cape Town
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