GenAI set to elevate banks’ performance
Gen AI adoption within the global financial services industry is set to soar. This is according to the IBM Institute for Business Value, which has released the 2025 Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets, its annual expectations for technology and transformation in...
1,6m cyberattacks on Roblox players detected in 2024
Ahead of Safer Internet Day tomorrow (11 February 2025), Kaspersky experts have highlighted the growing risks children face online by analysing threats associated with one of the most popular gaming platforms — Roblox. The experts shed light on the alarming rise in...
SA retailers need to transform survival capital into opportunity capital
South African retailers have increased their usage of credit financing over the past eight years, but only a few sub-sectors of the market are effectively using the capital they borrow to drive the growth of their businesses, according to the Bureau of Market Research...
ChatGPT beats Google in blind test
Two-thirds (65,3%) of people selected the websites provided by ChatGPT as a better match for their query than websites provided by Google, says a new study from digital marketing consultancy, ClickPop. For the research, ClickPop created a tool to compare people's...
Data centre security solutions downgraded
Enterprise spend on network security technologies focused on campus, branch, and user edge deployments will offset the increased weakness of data centre security solutions, according to a new report from Dell'Oro. "During the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, spending...
SA Entrepreneur of the Year competition revived
Despite a few harrowing years marked by lockdowns, persistent infrastructural problems, the ongoing energy crisis, and muted economic growth, South Africa's entrepreneurs have continued to show their mettle - and the relaunch of the Business Partners Entrepreneur of...
Chinese smartphone market declines
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 65,7-million smartphones shipped in China in 2Q23, a narrower decline of 2,1% compared to the same period last year. In the first half of the year, the Chinese market saw 130,9-million shipments, down 7,3%...
Webb snaps detailed image of actively forming stars
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the "antics" of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes in the featured image until you...
Macroeconomic, geopolitical conditions pose severe risks
With the world facing growing economic instability and political tensions, volatility in geoeconomic and geopolitical relations between major economies are likely to result in global upheavals over the next six months, according to a new survey of the World Economic...
Intel adds AI reference kits
Intel now offers a set of 34 open source AI reference kits to the community, the result of a years-long collaboration with Accenture, enabling developers and data scientists to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) faster and more easily. Each kit includes model code,...
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Avoid festive season financial mistakes
Have you accumulated so much debt during the course of the year that you avoid phone calls from private numbers to dodge one of the many creditors coming after you during the festive season? Burying your head in the sand is definitely not a solution and will not make...
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Christmas opens township window for manufacturers
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Keep children safe online
This festive season many youngsters will be receiving phones or tablets from Santa. In today's technology dominated world, it's quite normal to be concerned with your child's safety online. The digital age is here to stay and security for children will be a continuing...
TFG expands Collect In Store service
The Foschini Group (TFG) has rolled out its Collect In Store service for online shoppers across the country, taking the number of participating stores to 184, and now offers the service entirely free, with no qualifying amount required. Trialed in the Western Cape for...
Top game changers n 2018
Gordon Thomson, MD of digital acceleration: EMEAR at Cisco, shares what he thinks are the top tech trends for digital leaders to invest in next year. * Put data to work - Organisations now collect more data than a human brain could possibly process in a lifetime (or...
What the future holds for business IT in 2018
Ronald Ravel, director: B2B South Africa at Toshiba South Africa, believes that organisations are embracing technology at an ever-greater pace to better equip, enable and empower their business for the future. From the creation of new business streams, to developing a...
DRS wins McAfee Partner Of The Year award
Dynamic Recovery Services (DRS), an IT services and solutions provider and a Cognosec AB company, has announced it scooped the 2017 McAfee Partner of the Year Award, for North, Eastern Europe and Africa for the second consecutive year. The awards, held on 28 November...
A tool to plan safer journeys
Holiday travellers making use of SANRAL's i-Traffic system now have access to new features that will enable them to better plan their journeys and avoid congestion on the country's freeways. "Realtime information on road conditions, congestion and estimated travel...
Full Stack Developer (Angular & C#) at Reverside – Gauteng Gauteng
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SAP Basis Administrator at Tipp Focus Group
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Project Manager IT at QES
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SAP Basis Administrator at Tipp Focus Group – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
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Oracle Database Administrator at Tipp Focus Group
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