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Digitalisation can empower informal merchants to unlock Africa’s growth
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Clone phishing can trick even the most cautious users
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Robotic system a first for SA private healthcare
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SAP to embed IBM Watson AI
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Look beyond passwords to protect data
Tomorrow (Thursday 4 May) is World Password Day, an annual initiative that promotes better password habits. Duane Nicol, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast, says passwords are often a weak link in security. An increase in regular security awareness training has made...
AMD debuts Ryzen Z1 Series for handheld game consoles
AMD has introduced the new Ryzen Z1 Series processors for handheld PC gaming consoles1. The Ryzen Z1 Series features two high performance processors, the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme, featuring AMD RDNA 3 architecture-based graphics. AMD is partnering with Asus to...
Key Africa appointments at Microsoft
Microsoft has made two key leadership appointments to its African operations. Lillian Barnard has been named President for Microsoft Africa, while Kalane Rampai will succeed her as MD of South Africa. The new appointments are an important milestone in Microsoft’s...
Get ready for massive shifts as jobs change
Almost a quarter (23%) of jobs are expected to change by 2027, with 69-million (10,2%) new jobs created and 83-million (12,3%) eliminated. The Future of Jobs Report 2023 suggests that the jobs market will see a net decrease of 14-million jobs, or 2% of current...
Economists divided on recovery
The continuing uncertainty of the global economic outlook is reflected in the striking spread of responses to the latest Chief Economists Outlook, released this week. In a survey featured in the report, experts are evenly divided on the prospects for the global...
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Pinnacle signs up Mellanox
Pinnacle has signed a new distribution partnership with leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure -- Mellanox Technologies. In September 2017 Pinnacle...
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Although the Internet is an incredible place for children to learn, play games and experience new things, it exposes them to a world of risks. Chat rooms, IMs, gaming and social media sites can also put them in danger, from exposing them to predators and inappropriate...
DVT to sponsor DevConf 2018
Software development and testing company DVT has announced that it is a Platinum sponsor of the DevConf 2018 conference, to be held in Johannesburg and Cape Town in March next year. The annual event is a community-driven, developer-focused, one day conference that...
Predictive analytics for fraud
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DRS appoints two new directors
IT solutions and services provider, Dynamic Recovery Services (DRS), a Cognosec AB company. has appointed two new directors. Nastassja Poorter has joined the company as enterprise sales director, while Jonathan Cooke has joined as commercial sales director. Poorter's...
Encryption is like beer goggles
Encryption has become key to protecting the privacy of electronic communication -- and for certain transactions, encryption is a legal requirement -- but it's a bit like beer goggles; it makes everything look a lot rosier than it is. With between 50% and 70% of online...
Nutanix unveils developer-centric multi-cloud services
Nutanix has announced that new developer-oriented services will be added to its Enterprise Cloud OS software. These services address the needs of the growing number of applications that enterprises need to deliver in a multi-cloud world. The new Acropolis Object...
Property owners must protect against cyberthreats
As property owners increasingly look to invest in technologically smart buildings, they should give equal consideration to the cyber security risks attached to advances in property management. In South Africa there is a growing trend towards increasingly intelligent...
Tshimologong launches Entrepreneurship Week programme
As the world gets ready to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) from 13 to 17 November 2017, the Tshimologong Precinct at Wits University, has joined the movement and will form part of the 170 countries celebrating innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity....
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