AI infrastructure boom shifts from chip race to supply-chain race

AI infrastructure spending has entered a new phase, says GlobalData, with demand outpacing semiconductors, memory, and power capacity despite record earnings across the technology ecosystem. This earnings season reveals that capital investment, geopolitics, and...

As AI adoption grows, more security alerts are ignored

Security operations centres are facing mounting pressure from growing alert volumes, increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks, and persistent staffing constraints. According to Prophet Security's Second Annual State of AI in Security Operations Report, presented...

Roman telescope aims to travel 1m miles into space

This month could see the launch a new space telescope that aims to travel 1-million miles and record billions of galaxies. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could launch from the Kennedy Space Station as early as 30 August aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The Roman...

Climate change is redrawing the malaria map in Africa

Malaria is the deadliest climate-sensitive infectious disease. Yet, researchers and public health officials have debated how climate change has shaped its spread. A new Nature study by an international team, including the University of Cape Town (UCT), resolved this...

IBM tees up watsonx for the 2025 Masters

IBM and the Masters Tournament have announced a series of digital fan features returning to the award-winning Masters app and Masters.com ahead of this year's Tournament. The watsonx AI-powered capabilities – the latest in a 30-year collaboration between IBM and the...

Vumacam helps make the inner city safer

Afhco, a property company specialising in affordable housing in Johannesburg’s inner city and greater Gauteng, and long-standing partner Vumacam, have joined forces with Jozi My Jozi to help make the inner city a safer, more inclusive space. In line with Afhco’s...

Covid impacted digital transformation in healthcare

Globally, 71% of healthcare industry professionals expressed that the Covid-19 pandemic had the greatest impact on digital transformation in the healthcare sector during the last few years, among other macro events, according to a survey by GlobalData. GlobalData's...

New challenges as HR leaders strive to meet business outcomes

Leader and manager development, and organizational culture are the top priorities for HR leaders for 2024, according to a survey by Gartner. The Gartner survey of 520 HR leaders in July 2023 found the top five organisational priorities for HR leaders next year...

Digital payments to become a $10trn industry

Over the past five years, more than 1,6-billion people worldwide have embraced digital payments, pushing the total user count in this market to a whopping 4,44-billion, or more than half the world`s population. This massive user base has helped the total transaction...

Teraco commences CT2 expansion

interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre provider Teraco has announced a 30 megawatt (MW) expansion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre facility in Brackenfell, Cape Town. The expansion is scheduled for completion in early 2025 and will incorporate the latest...

Paratus SA inaugurates vendor neutral teleport

Representing the Group's largest investment in South Africa to date and built to serve Sub-Saharan Africa, the newly constructed Paratus South Africa Teleport - The Goedehoop Teleport in Doornkloof, Pretoria - has entered the final stages of completion. As the...

NAPAfrica achieves 4Tbps milestone

TikTok has joined Internet eXchange Point (IXP) NAPAfrica's growing community. At the same time, NAPAfrica announced a significant milestone in its growth journey by surpassing the 4Tbps (Terabits per second) traffic milestone. NAPAfrica reached the 3Tbps traffic...

ASSAf awards Science-for-Society Gold Medals

ASSAf annually awards ASSAf Science-for-Society Gold Medals for outstanding achievement in scientific thinking to the benefit of society. This year the awards were presented to two eminent scientists, Prof Richard Cowling and Prof Glenda Gray, at its Annual Awards...

Vodacom reports solid six-month growth

Vodacom has reported group revenue of R72,8-billion for the six months ended 30 September, up 35,5% compared to the same period last year and positively impacted by the acquisition of Vodacom Egypt. Group service revenue saw growth of 42,2%, or 7,9% if Vodafone Egypt...

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Abdulla appointed to Metrofile board

Zaheer Abdulla, investment manager of Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC) has been appointed as a non-executive director of Metrofile Holdings. It is anticipated that Abdulla will assume the role from 15 September 2018. MIC is Metrofile Holdings' largest shareholder...

Nokia 2.1 available with Android Oreo

The new Nokia 2.1 is now available to buy from Vodacom and MTN as well as leading retailers from R1 699.00. Delivering a 50% performance boost on its predecessor, the Nokia 2.1 combines a larger screen and dual front-front facing speakers with a two-day battery life....

Zimbabweans get a new way to send money

Zimbabweans living in South Africa, both banked and unbanked, can now access free mobile transacting and basic insurance services through the launch of the AMA.ZING Diaspora solution in South Africa. The solution, developed by the Zing Group, enables people living in...

Comsol, Samsung go live with 5G pilot

Comsol Networks and Samsung South Africa have lit up Vilakazi Street in Soweto with a live 5G pilot network. "Vilakazi Street is the family home to two Nobel Prize laureates, and one of our nation's boldest symbols of transformation and progress," notes Comsol CEO...

Smartphone pioneer awarded honorary doctorate by UP

Professor Ben Shneiderman, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and a world leader in the visualisation of big data sets, was this week awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and...

Gabsten is Commvault Service Partner of the Year

Data Management Solution specialist, Gabsten Technologies, won the prestigious Commvault Services Partner of the Year 2018 award at the Commvault Connections Live event. Gabsten Technologies has been affiliated with Commvault for almost a decade, establishing itself...

Taxify rolls out dockless electric scooters

Taxify will be the first transportation platform to bring scooter sharing and ride-hailing together in one mobile app. The company is rolling out an electric kick scooter service in Paris this week and will expand the service to more cities in the coming months,...

To email or not to email?

Communication in the workplace has evolved beyond telephone calls and emails. Instead, the digital business environment is all about real-time messaging to provide stakeholders with instantaneous responses to their queries. By Paul McIntyre, chief sales officer at...

Sygnia lists on A2X

Sygnia has been approved for a secondary listing on A2X Markets and listed yesterday (13 September 2018). Sygnia will retain its primary listing on the JSE and will not issue any new shares in connection with its secondary listing on A2X. There is no cost, risk, or...

Modern KPIs for effective cybersecurity

Faced with increasingly frequent and sophisticated cyber-attacks, enterprises are scrambling to put technologies and processes in place to effectively detect and combat cyber risks. By Martin Potgieter, technical director at Nclose Research by Symantec found that...

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