Rising demand for crypto in Africa amid stricter compliance
As global regulations tighten and crypto fraud surges by 48%, African crypto platforms must brace for increasing user demand, stricter compliance and rising user expectations. This is according to the State of the Crypto Industry 2025 report from full-cycle...
AI-designed proteins take on deadly snake venom
AI-driven medicine could deliver life-saving snakebite treatments to the world’s most vulnerable. Every year, venomous snakes kill over 100 000 people and leave 300 000 more with devastating injuries — amputations, paralysis and permanent disabilities. The victims are...
Big data, cloud computing, AI take centre stage
More than 75% of businesses are expected to embrace big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within the next five years. StockApps' financial analyst Edith Reads comments: "These emerging technologies have become essential elements in...
Cellular IoT connectivity revenues sprint past €10bn
Global IoT connectivity revenues increased 24 percent to reach €10,8-billion in 2022 as the decline in the global ARPU decelerated, according to new report from Berg Insight. The ARPU dropped just 1% to € 0.38. On average, IoT connectivity revenues account for about...
‘Yebo Gogo man’ Prof Kole Omotoso dies
Professor Kole Omotoso, widely recognised as the face of Vodacom’s long-running “Yebo Gogo” advertising campaign, died yesterday (Wednesday 19 July 2023). The “Yebo Gogo” advertisements promoted the Vodacom brand in the early 1990s and early 2000s in South Africa....
Intel and Asus bring AI to the fight against cancer
Colorectal cancer is the third most-common cancer worldwide, with almost 2-million new cases detected in 2020, according to World Cancer Research. While diagnosing colon-related cancers is a relatively straightforward procedure - most adults will undertake a...
Load shedding forces change in consumer buying habits
Retailers geared at making consumers' digital shopping experiences more efficient and useful are proving that they know what it takes to stay ahead of the curve as shopping trends evolve. According to PwC's latest Global Consumer Insights Survey Pulse 6: Key trends...
Financial industry leads in mixed cloud deployments
The financial industry is a major market for cloud deployments, according to Nutanix's fifth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The research reveals that mixed deployments among financial companies are...
Cathode oxidation research shakes up thinking on batteries
Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding and overcoming the challenges associated with Ni-rich cathode materials used in lithium-ion batteries. These materials have the potential to achieve both high voltages and capacities, but their practical...
Consumers are willing to pay for these connected car services
Want to create a social-media firestorm? Announce that popular in-car features will require a subscription -- on top of what people already are paying for the vehicle. General Motors and BMW recently sparked controversy by announcing efforts to grow subscription-based...
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Smart installations for a tight IT budget
When it comes to the purchase of data network, communications and other IT infrastructure, it's often tempting to buy cheap, quick-fix solutions to meet the immediate needs with as little pressure on the company coffers as possible. But that buck saved now could come...
SUSE Cloud Application Platform speeds DevOps
SUSE is helping enterprises speed application delivery with a growing portfolio of solutions built on industry-standard open source technologies. SUSE has launched SUSE Cloud Application Platform as the latest addition to that portfolio. The new solution provides...
Unearthing the IoT in agriculture
IoT M2M connectivity specialist Eseye has partnered with Burkard, designers and builders of air samplers for agricultural research since 1953, to harness the power of the IoT. Burkard has developed a piece of real-time pathogen monitoring equipment to predict and...
New ecosystem for non-profit funding
LENDonate has created a new ecosystem for non-profit funding, to connect non-profit organisations with investors and philanthropists who are keen to offer support. The company has partnered with peer-to-peer lending Software as a Service (SaaS) provider White Label...
Oracle strengthens partner network
Oracle has reinforced its commitment to advance cloud growth and provide support to customers and partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by naming Britehouse and Agileum as two of the first partners to join the Cloud Excellence Implementer (CEI)...
Market volatility drives payment protection
South Africa is currently experiencing difficult political and economic conditions, which has a direct impact on the financial and trading performance of businesses. Vulnerabilities to external shocks have also increased in a post-downgrade economy, with the impact of...
How ethical hacking can prevent fraud
Those of us who work in risk management spend a large portion of our time in a theoretical world, writes Rudi Dicks, senior consultant at BDO Cyber and Forensics Lab. However, from time to time it becomes necessary to do a practical test to see if the controls we've...
The short shift to cloud computing
It's all about the ecosystem, writes Kabelo Makwane, MD of Accenture South Africa's Cloud First business 'Lift-and-shift' -- the classic approach to cloud migration -- means this: take all your existing IT structures, procedures and applications and transfer them to...
Nokia security software taps automation, analytics
Nokia has announced its next-generation NetGuard Security Management Centre software, designed to bolster service providers' ability to proactively detect, predict and combat the growing threat from ransomware and other types of malware. The volume, velocity and...
Biometric authentication and its use in banking
As the line between our digital and physical identities becomes more and more blurred, biometric identification and authentication are rapidly changing how we can potentially engage and interact with our banks both in terms of convenience and security. With Gemalto's...
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