Black Friday is the king of retail bonanzas
South African retailers are already planning for a bumper 2025 Black Friday and holiday season. Black Friday, by its very nature, generates hype in the media and among retailers. However, a new index proves it is not hollow hype. South Africa’s first formal Black...
5G, AI to push IoT market past $1,8bn
The global Internet of Things (IoT) market is poised to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13,5% from $959,6-illion in 2023 to $1,8-trillion in revenue in 2028. This growth is driven by the rise of enterprise applications, enhanced by new technologies...
Vergelegen winery goes green with solar
Vergelegen wine estate in Somerset West has installed a solar power plant that has taken its hilltop winery building off the grid. The investment involved installing six solar tables, comprising a total of 500 panels and covering1400m². In addition to the panels, the...
Underdog Tech Award seeks to reward innovators
inDrive has launched the Underdog Tech Award, a new international prize for the founders of the best tech startups outside major tech hubs and startup communities. The award seeks to support technology startups that have been successfully founded despite facing...
SA has the best digital quality of life in Africa, lags globally
South Africa has the best digital quality of life in Africa but ranks just 72nd in the world. This is according to Surfshark’s fifth annual Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index, where the country dropped by six places from last year. Out of the Index’s five pillars,...
Gaming PCs set to struggle as monitors return to growth
As demand for PCs and monitors has slowed, demand for gaming PCs and monitors has seen some resiliency. International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide shipments of gaming monitors to grow 10,8% year over year in 2023 while gaming PCs are expected to decline...
AMD completes 4th Gen EPYC family
AMD has announced availability of the new AMD EPYC 8004 Series processors, completing the 4th Gen AMD EPYC CPU family of workload-optimised processors. The new processors bring the "Zen 4c" core into a purpose-built CPU, enabling hardware providers to create energy...
Intel unveils glass substrates for more powerful compute
Intel has announced one of the industry's first glass substrates for next-generation advanced packaging, planned for the latter part of this decade. This breakthrough achievement will enable the continued scaling of transistors in a package and advance Moore's Law to...
Digital technology directly benefits 70% of SDG targets
More than two-thirds of the UN's targets for sustainable development can benefit directly from digital technologies, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), organisers of SDG Digital taking...
Broadband Commission urges collaboration to accelerate SDGs
The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development called for a joint global effort to achieve universal and meaningful connectivity by 2030. According to the commission, the collaborative effort must ensure that people around the world are not only connected, but...
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Looking back on 2017 gives some clues to the security realities we must face in 2018 and beyond. At the same time, though, companies must start confronting disturbing new trends, say Jeremy Capell, executive: cyber resilience at Internet Solutions and ContinuitySA and...
Offshore contact centre boosts SA jobs
Local employment levels will receive a welcome boost of 84 new jobs, thanks to the launch of an offshore contact centre in South Africa. Silver Top Taxis in Australia, in partnership with Merchants, has launched the new customer service operation in a bid to...
MainOne adds connectivity in Cote d’Ivoire
As part of its West Africa expansion, connectivity and data centre solutions operator MainOne has secured a license to expand national and international connectivity services in Cote d'Ivoire. The C1B license, received from Minister Bruno Koné, the country's Minister...
Cisco enhances Webex
Cisco is converging the Cisco Spark and Webex platforms to create the Webex Meetings application for meetings and a new team collaboration application called Webex Teams. The company is also adding a new hardware device that turns any workspace with a TV into a Webex...
RS launches DesignSpark Marketplace
RS Components has unveiled a beta version of a significant new platform - DesignSpark Marketplace - which enables makers, pro-makers, start-ups and small businesses to promote and sell their own inventions and product creations to a wide audience of fellow makers and...
SA continues to tippy-toe into the cloud
It's almost been a decade since global markets considered a phased approach to cloud migration. Having an increased amount of trust in cloud technology, the enterprise sector is leapfrogging traditional cloud entry points and moving both critical production workloads...
Downtime not an option for critical infrastructure
THe draft Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill in South Africa, the successor to the National Key Points Act of 1980, has elicited heated debate from several quarters. However, it remains focused on improving security measures in critical infrastructure...
Getting to grips with data in your business
In light of the latest incidents of data sharing breaches, it's become more crucial than ever for companies to understand the role of data and analytics in their business. Since the Cambridge Analytica story made headlines, many businesses have been questioning what...
The challenges in connecting Africa
As the world's second largest and most populous continent, Africa offers an abundance of untapped resources, which is one of the reasons it has drawn attention from big tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon. Yet, until now, most of Africa's half-a-billion mobile...
MyCybercare debuts MyID, proactive protection against ID theft
Specialist cyber insurance company MyCybercare has introduced MyID, a solution that offers 24/7 surveillance across the public Net, deep Web and dark Net to prevent private or personal information from being stolen and exploited. MyID provides proactive protection,...
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