Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...

ITU coalition hits $73bn in connectivity pledges

ITU has announced new industry commitments to its Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Coalition, which has reached $73-billion in pledges for universal, meaningful connectivity. The latest commitments, presented during Mobile World Congress 2025 (MWC25), reflect growing...

MTN announces Win Win Summer winners

MTN South Africa has announced the 10 grand prize winners of its Win Win Summer campaign. The campaign, which ran from 6 October 2024 to 6 February 2025, offered customers an opportunity to win a share of R75-million in prizes, including hourly 1GB data rewards, daily...

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,...

IaaS cloud networking starting to gain in importance

The importance of networking to and within cloud environments has grown significantly for enterprise customers as more and more applications, workloads, and data are moved to the cloud, with IDC estimating that worldwide revenue for public cloud-based infrastructure...

Curro about to set local robotics on fire

Curro Durbanville High School will help ignite National Science Week when it hosts the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Western Cape Regional competition next weekend (Saturday 5 August). Teams of learners from different schools across the province are set to take part in...

Ransomware attacks on the increase in SA

While the beginning of 2023 saw a decline in the number of ransomware attacks in Q2, some regions saw an upward trend - with South Africa experiencing a 10% increase in attempts on individual and corporate users, according to Kaspersky Security Network data....

Vodacom hits back at battery thieves

Battery theft has become a top concern among mobile network operators given that their ability to deliver on their uptime customer promises depends on back-up power supply that batteries provide during power outages at mobile base stations. However, network providers...

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9TH BIT Consulting partners with Sonatype

9TH BIT Consulting, specialists in implementing SOA solutions, middleware integration and products, has partnered with Sonatype, the leader in software supply chain automation. Under the terms of the partnership, 9TH BIT will serve the African market with Sonatype's...

Fintech FICA specialist makes Accenture finals

Fintech startup, ThisIsMe, has been selected as one of three finalists in the Accenture Innovation Index Awards, for its Fast FICA concept. The company also recently announced that it had been selected to participate in this year's Gartner's Innovation Programme. The...

Intact introduces vulnerability and penetration testing services

Security specialist Intact Software Distribution is adding vulnerability and penetration testing to its range of services. "All companies have cyber security tools and solutions in place, be it anti-malware, a firewall, encryption, data loss prevention, or a variety...

Township on show at e-Kasi Expo

Walter Sisulu Square in historic Kliptown, Soweto, is set to host the inaugural e-Kasi Tech Festival & Gaming Expo from 25 to 27 October 2017. The i-Village Foundation and its business, ICT, education and consulting partners will stage South Africa's biggest ever...

Nigerian teachers get behind SAP Code Week

More than 450 public and private school teachers from across North Central Nigeria gathered at Baze University last week for a Train-the-Trainer (TTT) workshop session organized as part of Africa Code Week (ACW) 2017. Forming part two of Nigeria's training sessions,...

Ecobank partners with Visa

Ecobank has partnered with Visa to launch Ecobank Scan+Pay with mVisa solutions to its consumers. The strategic tie-up signals interoperability on a cross border level -- and potentially huge gains -- as it affords consumers with the ability to use their mobile phone...

Networks Unlimited partners with Uplogix

Networks Unlimited has signed a distribution agreement with Uplogix to expand the distribution of its remote network management platform to the sub-Saharan region. Anton Jacobsz, MD of Networks Unlimited, says: "Uplogix offers a highly reliable and secure...

The future of the connected car

The driverless car revolution is closer than you might think. Martin Walshaw, Senior Systems Engineer at F5 Networks, discusses the security challenges which must be overcome in order for this future to become a reality. From Elon Musk's vision for a tunnel network...

Nedbank Insurance introduces chatbot

In line with its brand promise to enable its clients to See Money Differently, Nedbank has prioritised innovation as a vital cornerstone on which it delivers value to its clients. The bank is especially committed to leveraging digital innovation as a means of...

Euro standards for printer cartridges

Fewer printer cartridges are expected to end up in landfill and more will be properly recycled or reused following the European Commission's confirmation that remanufacturers of printer cartridges must fulfil their environmental and financial obligations like any...

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