AI to the fore as cyberattackers focus on Africa

Kathy Gibson reports - As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more accessible and sophisticated, we are going to see it playing a bigger role in cyberattacks. Tony Anscombe, chief security evangelist at ESET, describes how AI malware has made an appearance and will...

Global IT spending set to grow 10,8%, hitting $6,15trn

Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $6,15-trillion in 2026, up 10,8% from 2025, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “AI infrastructure growth remains rapid despite concerns about an AI bubble, with spending rising across AI‑related hardware and...

At 140 years old, Mercedes-Benz unveils Nvidia-powered S-Class

Mercedes-Benz is marking 140 years of automotive innovation with a new S-Class built for the AI era, bringing together automotive safety and Nvidia’s advanced autonomous driving platform to enable a level 4-ready architecture designed for trust. The new S-Class with...

AI platforms lean towards region-specific infrastructure

By 2027, 35% of countries will be locked into region-specific AI platforms using proprietary contextual data, according to Gartner, which also predicts that platform lock-in will rise from 5% to 35% by 2027. “Countries with digital sovereignty goals are increasing...

How Prasa plans to modernise the railways

Kathy Gibson reports - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has a bold plan for modernising the country's railways, and will invest over R100-billion in the process. This is the word from Hishaam Emeran, CEO of Prasa, who says the agency has a clear...

People-first strategies key for flexible working

New research from Ricoh Europe reveals that the majority of organisations lack the technology to support flexible working - with only 30% of European employees saying they have all the technology to collaborate seamlessly when working with colleagues. "Organisations...

Intel raises the bar for gaming performance

Intel has launched the new Intel NUC 13 Extreme Kit (code-named Raptor Canyon) and Intel NUC 13 Extreme Compute Element, which combine to make the most powerful Intel NUC built to date. The NUC 13 Extreme features unlocked 13th Gen Intel Core desktop processors and...

New PC webcam standard set

VCX-Forum has announced VCX-WebCam 2023, the first consensus-driven camera benchmark specifically targeted for videoconferencing image quality. Intel was the founding member and chair of the cross-PC ecosystem group, working alongside Dell, Image Engineering, Lenovo,...

Vodacom posts first half results

The Vodacom group reports that revenue of R53,7-billion for the six months ended 30 September 2022 was up 7,7%, supported by normalised growth of 5% and rand depreciation against a basket of international currencies. Group service revenue growth was 7,2% in the...

Telkom warns of reduced earnings

Telkom has issued a trading statement for the six months ended 30 September 2022, warning shareholders to expect a decrease in earnings. It says reported headline earnings per share (HEPS) and reported basic earnings per share (BEPS) are expected to decrease by...

Lebashe investment a shot in the arm for EOH

Lebashe Investment Group, EOH's strategic partner since 2018, has signed irrevocable undertakings to follow its rights on the shares it currently owns, which represent 13,06% of the issued share capital, as well as invest further R100-million through a specific share...

All the winners from the BCX Digital Innovation Awards

BCX has announced the winners of the Digital Innovation Awards 2022. "We believe that now, more than ever, South Africa is making strides towards embracing and participating in the fourth industrial revolution," says Jonas Bogoshi, CEO of BCX. "The innovation we have...

Positive outlook for climate technology

Climate tech funding in 2022 represented more than a quarter of every venture dollar invested in 2022, in the upper half of the 20% to 30% range observed since the start of 2018, according to PwC's State of Climate Tech 2022 report. Investment in climate tech has been...

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Red Hat helps enterprises embrace DevOps at scale

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Ansible Tower 3.1, the latest version of its enterprise-grade, agentless automation platform. Ansible Tower by Red Hat helps enterprises cut through the complexities of modern IT environments with powerful automation...

Kaspersky Lab retains secure testing top spot

Kaspersky Lab has continued to outperform the competition in its TOP3 metric for Internet security, achieving the top spot for the fourth year in a row in independent testing over the year. This consistency and quality of performance proves that Kaspersky Lab...

Dell EMC enhances cloud service provider partner program

Dell EMC has announced an enhanced focus and investment in the varied service provider industry that includes communications service providers, cable multiple system operators, hosting/co-location providers, public cloud providers, vertical market cloud specialists,...

Power training adds virtual and augmented reality

Schneider Electric has added advanced virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies to its industrial software portfolio with the acquisition of MWPowerlab. MWPowerlab's industry-leading 3D real-time technology gives customers the benefit of...

Veeam adds availability integration for Cisco HyperFlex

Veeam Software has expanded its work with Cisco by launching the direct snapshot integration with the Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform. The integration of Veeam Availability Suite with the software-defined networking and computing power of...

How chatbots will evolve into practical tools

With research showing that the number of new app downloads is slowing down, it's clear that customers are becoming pickier about the apps on their phones and tablets. The slowdown also points to a phenomenon of 'app fatigue' - we're getting tired of continually...

New group CFO for Paratus Telecom

Paratus Telecom, the largest privately owned pan-African telecoms operator, has now also appointed Stefan de Bruin as its chief financial officer for the Group to help grow the business across the African continent. De Bruin is responsible for the overall financial...

Ericsson and Tigo partner with GSMA in Tanzania

Ericsson and Tanzanian mobile network operator Tigo have partnered to launch the first of a series of rural pilot tower sites to provide mobile broadband coverage in parts of the Lindi Mtwara region, a rural province where there was previously no connection. This...

AMD and Bethesda Softworks partner on gaming

AMD and Bethesda have announced a long-term, multi-title partnership to rapidly advance game technology development, fuel new PC game experiences, and reshape the gaming landscape. This brings together two titans of the gaming industry: Bethesda Softworks, which has...

Fibre-like connectivity now available in under-serviced areas

Pan-African telecoms operator Paratus Telecom has started rolling out its Paratus Communication Service throughout South Africa. It now offers connectivity that provides the same performance and reliability to that of fibre and is now available in under-serviced fibre...

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