FNB customer spend passes R3,2bn on Black Friday
FNB customers exceeded last year’s highest spend peak, going over R3,2-billion in Black Friday purchases this year. Black Friday spending has increased by 11% year-on-year with transactions worth over R5,4-billion processed on FNB Speedpoint devices. Overall,...
Black Friday sees big rebound in consumer spend
Despite coming off the back of a prolonged period of economic headwinds and difficult conditions, South African consumers bounced back during this year’s Black Friday week. Users clocked up massive year-on-year increases in spend on every day of the week, peaking at a...
Old vulnerabilities gain in popularity
An old vulnerability in Microsoft Office is gaining popularity among attackers who target both regular users and companies, Kaspersky has found. Since the beginning of the year, the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 has increased by nearly 500%, impacting thousands....
Load shedding impacts waste management
The effects of loadshedding on South Africa's economy and SMMEs have been immense. And, according to Mpendulo Ginindza, president of the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA), the waste management industry is no exception - with several challenges...
European enterprise networking market defies slowdown
According to the latest tracker data recently published by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the European Networking market grew by 32,6% year on year in Q1 2023, continuing its extremely strong performance throughout 2022 and defying expectations of a slower...
Meta launches new genAI tool, opens access to all
Meta and Microsoft have introduced the next generation of the open source large language model Llama. Llama 2 is free for research and commercial use, with the support of a broad set of companies and people across tech, academia, and policy. The launch sees the...
Encouraging uptick for the BETI in June
After months of sideways movements, the BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI) recovered in June 2023 providing an encouraging outlook for South Africa's economy in the second quarter. "The BETI increased in June 2023 to an index level of 133.6 compared to...
Worldwide IT spend set for 4% growth
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4,7-trillion in 2023, an increase of 4,3% from 2022, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. As CIOs continue to lose the competition for IT talent, they are shifting spending to technologies that enable automation and...
Intel, Asus agree to take NUC products forward
Intel has agreed to a term sheet with Asus, agreeing to manufacture, sell and support the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) 10th to 13th generations systems product line, and to develop future NUC systems designs. "Our NUC systems product team delivered unique products that...
Global IaaS public cloud services revenue passes $100bn
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29,7% in 2022, to total $120,3-billion, up from $92,8-billion in 2021, according to Gartner. Amazon retained the top position in the IaaS market in 2022, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and Huawei....
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Nimbus increases stake in Paratus Namibia
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New technologies expand satellite markets
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VMware Integrated OpenStack drives 5G readiness
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Shaping the economy with service
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Reducing the cost of job hunting
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Protect your business against cybercrime
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VMware names top partners
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Duxbury-branded switches target budget market
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Bitco debuts on-premises firewall
National telecommunications service provider BitCo has launched its BitCo Secure product offering. The BitCo Secure On-Premises Firewall is a next-generation firewall service which offers robust network protection against web-based threats through unified threat...
Get your software testing ducks in a row
One of the most significant and common issues I've noticed with recent test automation projects is environment preparation - or rather lack thereof. By Mario Matthee, head: SQA architecture and R&D at DVT Too many companies seem to want to jump into test...
Firmware Engineer – KwaZulu-Natal Durban
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C# Software Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg Region
Our client is looking for a talented software developer that is proficient in C# based (.Net/.net core/various web/windows/micro services/WCF/REST) technologies. Key Requirements 4+ years' experience overall.BSc/ BTech/ [URL Removed]C# based (.Net/.net core/various...
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Development Team Lead
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Senior Full Stack Developer
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Development Team Lead – Gauteng Pretoria Region
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Learner: Business Intelligence (BI) Developer – KwaZulu-Natal Durban
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Senior Full Stack Developer – Eastern Cape Sidwell
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