African startups look to new investors

Kathy Gibson reports from AI Everything and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – Africa’s exciting and innovative start-ups are attracting interest from investors in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Investors from these regions are arguably more aligned to the continent’s...

Pilot to production: the challenge of African developers

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa has no shortage of ideas, use cases and innovation when it comes to developing AI applications. But having a great idea, or an elegant algorithm, doesn’t necessarily translate into a bankable...

As economies shift, Africa urged to follow the money

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa is enjoying a renaissance as it embraces technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive its future growth. But there is a danger that the continent will remain a mere consumer of the...

SA holds its own as global AI adoption accelerates

Worldwide adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the first quarter of 2026, according to Microsoft’s Global AI Diffusion Q1 2026 Trends and Insights report from its AI Economy Institute. During the quarter, AI usage increased by 1,5 percentage points...

Blackwell ups the ante on training performance

In MLPerf Training 4.1 industry benchmarks, the Nvidia Blackwell platform has delivered impressive results on workloads across all tests - and up to 2,2x more performance per GPU on LLM benchmarks, including Llama 2 70B fine-tuning and GPT-3 175B pretraining. In...

AMD debuts Versal Premium Series Gen 2

AMD has announced the AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2, an adaptive SoC platform designed to deliver the highest levels of system acceleration for a wide range of workloads. Versal Premium Series Gen 2 will be the FPGA industry’s first devices featuring Compute Express...

The verdict is in – and hybrid working wins

Over the past three years, the world has seen the biggest workplace shift since the industrial revolution, with the introduction of hybrid and remote work options as a result of pandemic lockdowns. Since returning to office last year, the jury has been out and most...

The state of malware threats

Check Point Software Technologies researchers last month uncovered a substantial Qbot malspam campaign distributed through malicious PDF files attached to emails seen in multiple languages. This is according to the company's Global Threat Index for April 2023, which...

South Africans are under-insured for death or disability

According to ASISA's 2022 Life and Disability Insurance Gap Study, 14,3-million income earners in South Africa only had sufficient life and disability insurance to cover 45% of the total needs of households. This statistic implies that households with one primary...

Difficult choices as cyberinsurance premiums rise

As cybersecurity insurance premiums soar, companies may be forced to play a game of Russian roulette, taking the chance that they won't be hit by a cyberattack. The stakes are high: approximately 236,1-million ransomware attacks occurred globally in the first half of...

New office bearers for WASPA

South Africa's Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (WASPA) has elected its new board for 2023, introducing a number of new board members while still maintaining a level of continuity. James McNab returns as chairman of WASPA, having served previously...

Children increasingly fall victim to cybercrime

So far, 2022 has seen a close to 20% increase in child victims of cybercrime, while the financial losses from these crimes has more than doubled. This is according to Surfshark research. According to the FBI Internet Crime Centre reports (2015-2022), there were nearly...

Why AI should be top of the national agenda

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since the success of DeepMind over Go world champion Lee Sedol in 2016; the world is beginning to change according to the new possibilities afforded by AI. Leo Charlton, technology analyst at IDTechEx From the robust...

Seacom confirms cyberattack

Seacom has confirmed that, on 10 May 2023, it experienced a cyber security incident. In a statement issued this afternoon, the company says the incident was confined to its hosting environment, impacting a small number of customers, all of whom have been personally...

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Quick calls to better businesses

The tools that enable a rapid response to customers are the key to improved sales. Speed of response is the first step to getting and keeping customers in a highly competitive and cluttered online environment. Contact centres play a pivotal role in this process. Rapid...

Companies must became cyber-resilient

This year, we have seen some of the most high-profile victims of cybercrime across the world, including the NHS in the UK, and the attack of Equifax that impacted of millions of people in several countries. The damage has not only cost companies' money, it has also...

Festival organisers urged to go cashless

As festival goers gear-up for the start of the 2017 festival season, more emphasis should be placed on the benefits of going cashless as the event fundamental for organisers, vendors and partygoers. This is according to Shai Evians, CEO of Howler, an event-technology...

Automation key for digital enterprises

In today's customer-centric business environment, automation is seen to be one of the keys to delivering superior service, writes Jaco Viljoen, agile consultant at IndigoCube. I have previously explored why and how the principles of lean-agile software development...

BBM Messenger partners with NGO Springster

Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger, has partnered with Springster, Girl Effect's global mobile-first platform for vulnerable young women, to launch Girl Talk, a highly important and purposeful content offering. Aiming to "create a new normal" for young...

Print Tag explores digital possibilities

Cape Town-based Print-Tag, a family-run commercial printing business specialising in digital and litho print products, has installed a new Xerox Versant 80 Press supplied by Cape Office Machines. Cape Office has been an authorised business partner to Bytes Document...

Girls4Tech aims to drive STEM interest

Mastercard has announced the African launch of its signature Girls4Tech programme, launching it last week at Sandtonview school in Johannesburg. Girls4Tech aims to drive interest in and awareness of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) studies and careers...

Major EdTech recruitment drive in Cape Town

Cape Town-based online education company GetSmarter is embarking on a major recruitment drive, hot on the heels of its R1,4-billion acquisition by US-based 2U. "We are looking for talented people who have a passion for education, can-do attitudes, and are team players...

They’re here … are you ready?

Millennial customers are more fastidious when it comes to customer service than previous generations -- and at the same time they are also fiercely loyal. They have grown up with a plethora of tools and a variety of communication channels around them, and they know...

New company secretary, legal advisor at Jasco

Jasco Group has appointed Neo Modisakeng as its new company secretary and legal advisor. In his capacity as a lawyer, Modisakeng has been involved in the ICT industry for many years. Starting out in Webber Wentzel's Technology, Media, Telecommunications and...

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