Financial Ombud looks back on its first year
It’s been one year since the National Financial Ombud Scheme (NFO) was formed from the amalgamation of the Ombudsman for Banking Services (OBS), the Credit Ombud (CO), the Ombudsman for Long-Term Insurance (OLTI), and the Ombudsman for Short-Term Insurance (OSTI)....
AI could help counter money laundering
Using artificial intelligence (AI) technology in anti-money laundering (AML) processes has become critical for financial institutions as they work to comply with regulations and combat financial crime. Even so, a new AML technology study from SAS, featuring...
Calling all channel players: Vote for 2023’s top vendors and distributors
Voting is now open for the 2023 survey for this year's Channelwise Awards - the most sought-after and prestigious independent awards in the South African IT distribution channel. Channel players are asked to cast their votes for the vendors and distributors they feel...
Cloud infrastructure spending stays on growth track
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 7,9% year over year in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23) to $24,6-billion. This is according to the International Data Corporation...
Attacks through social media proliferate
On 29 September, the North Korea-linked cybercriminal group Lazarus targeted a Spanish aerospace company through social media. The attacker pretended to be a recruiter from Meta and contacted employees via LinkedIn Messaging. This tricked them into believing the...
Sam Bankman-Fried trial is test for crypto
The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, kicks off in Manhattan this week. According to Nigel Green, the CEO and founder of deVere Group, it represents an opportunity to bolster trust, boost adoption, and purge the cryptocurrency sector of unscrupulous...
Fak’ugesi Awards celebrate digital creativity
In a vibrant awards ceremony that illuminated the 10th-anniversary celebrations of the Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival, the Fak'ugesi 2023 Awards for Digital Creativity unveiled the winning projects spanning Animation, Video Games, Visual Arts, Music,...
Noose tightens on new vehicle sales
Uncertainty appears to be getting the better of consumers and business as new vehicle sales registered their second consecutive month of declines year-on-year. According to figures released by naamsa the Automotive Business Council, South Africa's new vehicle sales...
Nobel prize for work that enabled Covid-19 vaccine
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against...
Watch a supernova bubble expand in a Hubble time-lapse movie
A doomed star exploded some 20 000 years ago, but its tattered remnants continue racing into space at breakneck speeds – and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught the action. The nebula, called the Cygnus Loop, forms a bubble-like shape that is about 120...
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Schneider Electric debuts Easy UPS 3S
Schneider Electric South Africa has announced the launch of its Easy UPS 3S in Africa. Making business continuity easy for small and medium businesses, Easy UPS 3S is a 10-to-40kVA Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) that offers robust electrical specifications and...
What do survey incentives do to data quality?
Research has proven that incentives increase survey responses. However, enticing a person to complete a survey with an incentive means you can be sure to get different answers. Whether you choose to incentivise your survey or not, data quality needs to be at the...
Partnership aims to ease unemployment
More than one in every three young people in South Africa did not have a job in the first three months of 2018. With unemployment rates close to 40% in youth and young adults between ages 15-34, solutions to aid employment are on the national agenda. Education...
Monaco Telecom buys MTN Cyprus for R4,1bn
MTN Dubai, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MTN Group, has entered into an agreement in which it has sold 100% of MTN Cyprus to Monaco Telecom as part of an ongoing review of its portfolio. The net sale proceeds of €260-million (approximately R4,1-billion) will be paid...
Antalis SA buyout creates 51% black-owned paper solutions firm
Paper, packaging and graphic solutions provider Antalis South Africa has announced that the company will become South Africa's leading black empowered company in its industry, on completion of a 100% local buyout of shares currently owned by Antalis International....
Fujitsu launches new storage appliance
Fujitsu has added a powerful new storage appliance for archiving to its portfolio. The Eternus CS8050 NAS provides comprehensive, competitively priced storage for the archiving needs - including SoftWORM (Write Once, Read Many) features for legal compliance,...
Canon gets EcoVadis gold rating for sustainability
Canon has been awarded the EcoVadis gold rating, for a fourth consecutive year, positioning the company within the top 5% for sustainability performance. To decide company ratings, the EcoVadis CSR analysis system assesses 21 criteria across four themes of...
Thyssenkrupp launches advanced water electrolysis
As renewable energy sources continue their global success story, the demand for integrating them into the current South African energy and industry landscape grows Thyssenkrupp now offers a key technology for renewables integration: Industrial scale water electrolysis...
AfricaOnline delivers fast broadband in Namibia
Namibian ISP AfricaOnline has launched a wireless broadband network powered by Radwin's JET 5GHz Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) smart Beamforming solutions. AfricaOnline has complemented its' long-standing WiMAX service with a new carrier-grade JET PtMP service to deliver...
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