African farmers get a digital boost
Looking to provide digital access to critical services for 100-million people and businesses in Africa over the next 10 years, the African Development Bank Group and Mastercard are co-chairing a new initiative called Mobilising Access to the Digital Economy (MADE)...
The top priorities for HR leaders in 2025
Leader and manager development remains the number one priority in 2025 for HR leaders for the third consecutive year, according to a new survey by Gartner. The continued focus on manager development comes as managers report feeling overwhelmed by their...
Scammers are expanding their crypto-romance cons
Sophos, has released details of two expansive and still operational pig butchering, or sha zhu pan, rings - elaborate and lengthy financial fraud scams that can cost victims thousands of dollars - that scammers are operating from Asia. One of the rings, based in Hong...
Women are being shut out of Web3
Web3 companies - those developing radical new applications involving the metaverse, blockchain technologies, and cryptocurrencies that are set to transform many global industries - are on the cutting edge of shaping the future of the digital world. But in one aspect...
Tourists are travelling back to SA’s biggest cities
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed positive signs of recovery for the South African travel and tourism sector, with travellers heading back to its major cities. The report, researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analysed key...
What to expect from the upcoming budget
Kathy Gibson reports - Amid bearish predictions about economic growth, most (59%) of South African CEOs expect local GDP growth to decline this year. Among the challenges businesses are grappling with are structural issues, while electricity supply is having a major...
SA leads the African move to cloud
Kathy Gibson reports - South African companies expect to massively increase their investment in cloud this year. Seventy-three percent of South African respondents in the "Cloud in Africa" study released today by World Wide Worx in conjunction with Red Hat and F5 say...
SA employees still wary of AI, robots in the workplace
With the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) - especially with the recent launch of the ChatGPT bot - there are concerns among employees in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa region with regard to robots and automation systems used by companies,...
AI tops Google search trends in 2022
Google Search trends show that interest in "artificial intelligence" reached a record in 2022 in South Africa and across the world and is peaking again in January 2023, with top searches including "ai generator" (Number 3), "ai art" (4), "what is ai" (5), and "google...
Network security revenue surges, but set to slow
Enterprise spend on network security technologies - including email security, firewall, security service edge (SSE), secure Web gateway (SWG), Web application firewall (WAF), and application delivery controller (ADC) products - has been on the rebound after the dismal...
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Customer service leaders should be a step ahead
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Uptick in consumers banking outside normal hours
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Make retail work with machine learning
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Look out for these trends in 2017
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Lexmark named as workflow leader
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Mitsumi to distribute HP supplies in the Middle East
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ICT Sector Codes prompt big B-BBBEE deals
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Mimecast combats internal email threats
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Information Regulator holds PoPI briefing
The Information Regulator held its first public briefing on 13 February 2017 regarding the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) act, or POPIA, as it is now referred to by the Information Regulator. "Any public or private body or any other person that processes...
ASUS appoints service centres across SA
Service delivery is in South Africa is always a hot topic, especially in the IT industry. To this end ASUS South Africa not only appointed Rectron as one of its official distributors in 2016, but has recently appointed the distributor as an officially-approved service...
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