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...

AI leaders join call for a slowdown in new developments

The call for a global slowdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development is gaining traction, with the leaders of the some of the world’s largest AI companies adding their voices. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dr Dario Amodei penned an essay calling for AI companies to...

Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis

A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...

A third of employees laid off due to AI will need to be rehired

As AI continues to accelerate the pace and scope of work, CIOs must prepare for four shifts that will influence the future of work, says Gartner. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI-era, they will realise their greatest mistake was believing...

HP buys Humane’s AI tech for $116m

HP Inc has announced a definitive agreement to acquire key AI capabilities from Humane, including its AI-powered platform Cosmos, skilled technical talent, and intellectual property with more than 300 patents and patent applications. "This investment will rapidly...

Innovation rated as a top priority in Africa

Despite global economic uncertainty, innovation rose as a top corporate priority for 2023. According to a new report released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 83% of African executives view innovation as a top-three priority for this year, compared to 79% of...

Dating app users lose millions to pig butchering scam

A massive 56% of users are aware of crypto phishing scams, according to a survey by NordVPN. However, crime statistics show that awareness doesn't always help to avoid experiencing fraud. In April, the US Department of Justice announced that Americans have lost around...

SmugX research exposes new malware trend

In the last couple of months, Check Point Research (CPR) has been tracking the activity of a Chinese threat actor targeting foreign and domestic policy entities as well as embassies in Europe. The researchers unpack their findings: Combined with other Chinese based...

New malware family comes to light

During an in-depth malware investigation into the activities of Andariel, a notorious subgroup of Lazarus, Kaspersky researchers discovered a new malware family called EarlyRat, being used alongside Andariel's known utilisation of the DTrack malware and Maui...

Continued growth for compute and storage cloud infrastructure

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments,...

Home energy management systems on the increase

The number of home energy management systems (HEMS) in Europe is increasing as businesses and consumers take control of their energy usage. In a new Berg Insight market report, a HEMS is defined as a system that at minimum consists of a solar PV system, battery...

Contact centre software market to test $150bn by 2030

The global contact centre software market size is expected to reach $149,58-billion by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of 23,9% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The contact centre software market encompasses software and services used by...

Bitcoin trading picks up in 2023

The renewed institutional interest in cryptocurrency sent Bitcoin surging to a new 12-month high, with its price jumping above $31 300 in June. Although BTC lost some of its gains in the last week of the month, it still finished the first half of 2023 with an...

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Kaspersky is a trail blazer in APT defence

A competitive analysis of the market for advanced persistent threats (APT) by the Radicati Group has awarded Kaspersky Lab's Anti Targeted Attack platform "Trail Blazer" quadrant status, one of its top market leadership positions. The result means that the product has...

Citrix and the future of SD-WAN

Brendan McAravey, country manager at Citrix South Africa, examines what the Cisco acquisition of Viptela means for the direction of SD-WAN. For those that haven't been following the rapidly growing SD-WAN market, Cisco's acquisition of Viptela may seem to have come...

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With the development of IT technologies, the job market is being transformed, across all industry sectors. Automation of manual tasks is the most obvious change, but big data, blockchains and crowd funding may be the real game changers, enabling established and new...

Steady focus needed for turbulent times

Last month, Trading Economics reported that South African manufacturing production had declined 0.8 percent year-on-year, following an upwardly revised 4,2% drop in April, which was the highest since July of 2014. According to the report, "production of petroleum,...

SA’s unemployment an opportunity for stability

The quarterly employment survey recently released by Statistics South Africa announced a net quarterly decrease of 48 000 (-0,5%) jobs between December 2016 and March 2017 - this while South Africa's unemployment rate already sits at an all-time high of 26,5%. For...

Nology introduces Yealink’s CP960 IP conference phone

The local availability of Yealink's CP960 IP conference phone for medium to large meeting rooms promises to enhance business audio conference call experiences and allow call participants to concentrate on the business at hand, rather than fretting about audio quality...

F5 is Web Application Firewall magic quadrant

F5 Networks has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). "Application Security Manager--our WAF--has always been one of F5's most popular products. Scores of customers have relied on it to protect...

Aurecon opens Tshwane recycling facility

Aurecon has partnered with the City of Tshwane in support of its road to sustainability initiative which strives for a clean and green City and also aligned to the objectives of the National Development Plan 2030. This initiative involves minimising the amount of...

POPI adds a dimension to data protection

Whether one has totally embraced South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act or not – or truly understands the legal responsibilities it enforces upon businesses and organisations, there is no denying it has altered the scope of data protection,...

Hybrid business accelerator opens in Atlantis

An innovative business accelerator that seeks to thrust youth living in Atlantis, in the Western Cape, into economic inclusion, has opened. Symbiosis Innovation and Accelerator Centre (Symbiosis), the re-purposed former South African Manufacturing Technology...

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Parvana Role: Our highly successful national client is looking for a bright and ambitious developer for their team. You are not expected to know anything, you will be provided with courses as well as on the job training which will last for over 4 months. This role can...

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Job Description:To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems, opportunities, needs, structure; policies and operations of the organization on large; high risk and complex projects. To...

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Lead impactful tech projects and take your project management career to the next level. Is this you?You're a strategic thinker with a talent for navigating complex projects. With a track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams, you can coordinate...

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Lead impactful tech projects and take your project management career to the next level. Is this you?You're a strategic thinker with a talent for navigating complex projects. With a track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams, you can coordinate...

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Title: Senior DevOps Support EngineerDescription Responsibilities/Tasks:Design, development, implementation, migration and support of a comprehensive build and release management process and technical solution to support the development processes, using existing tools...

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Project Manager Junior at PnP

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