Lack of privacy makes people want to disconnect
It’s estimated that 67,5% of the global population use the Internet – but many of them would like to ditch it. Compared to 2022, even more people would like to delete themselves from the Internet this year, according to joint research carried out this year by NordVPN...
ITU forum comes up with digital innovation ideas
The Global Innovation Forum held by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has identified key ways to help close the “digital innovation gap”. The suggested approaches, focusing on critical factors from expanding collaboration to attracting investment, are...
AMD expands telco products, support
AMD has announced it will be expanding support of its growing 5G partner ecosystem spanning from core to radio access networks (RAN) applications, delivering additional new test capabilities and unveiling new 5G products. The AMD wireless telecom partner ecosystem has...
Absa finances three wind energy projects
Absa acted as a mandated lead arranger and lender for three Red Rocket Energy renewable energy projects which reached financial close on 23 February 2023. The projects comprise of two 140MW wind farms, which will both be located in the Western Cape, and one 84MW wind...
Acer ranks among top female-friendly companies
Acer has been included in Forbes' list of the World's Top Women-Friendly Companies in 2022. Forbes co-operated with the market research institute Statista in conducting an anonymous survey of nearly 85 000 women working in multinational companies around the world. The...
Blue Label Telecoms increases revenue, profits
For the six months ended 30 November 2022, Blue Label Telecoms has reported revenue of R9,8-billion, with an increase in gross profit of 13% to R1,54-billion (2021: R1,36-billion). The core businesses of the Blue Label Group continued to generate further growth in...
Ransomware persisted in 2022 despite improved detection
Although ransomware's share of incidents declined only slightly (4 percentage points) from 2021 to 2022, defenders were more successful detecting and preventing ransomware. Despite this, attackers continued to innovate with the report showing the average time to...
Global AI revenue set to boom
The global artificial intelligence (AI) market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21,4% from $81,3-billion in 2022 to reach $383,3-billion in 2030, according to research organisation GlobalData. The company's latest thematic report,...
Executives frustrated by payment failure rate
LexisNexis Risk Solutions has released the results of its "True Impact of Failed Payments Report" - a snapshot of cross-border payments performance on a global scale. The report assesses insights collected from 400 payment executives representing leading corporations...
New MD for Tarsus On Demand
Senzo Mbhele, currently head of innovation and employee experience at Tarsus Technology Group, has been appointed MD of Tarsus On Demand (TOD) effective 1 March 2023. This follows the resignation of Anton Herbst, former CEO of TOD and Tarsus Technology Group (TTG),...
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10 ways to effectively manage workplace conflict
Conflict is inevitable - and is especially prevalent in workplace environments where employees operate under high-pressured environments, aiming to achieve important objectives. Global workplace solutions provider, Manpower South Africa states that workplace conflict...
Riverbed launches SD-WAN updates
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, today announced major updates to its SD-WAN offering Riverbed SteelConnect, an app-defined, cloud networking solution that provides an intelligent and simplified approach to designing, deploying and managing...
BT, Symantec enhance network protection, management
BT and Symantec has announced the integration of Symantec's latest technology into BT's portfolio of managed security services. With this new agreement, BT customers will benefit from enhanced visibility of incoming internet traffic and from simplified administration...
Customer service leaders should be a step ahead
The customer service landscape has become more complex than ever, with various communication channels being introduced. This has presented new methods of interactions between businesses and their customers. When a business is running a contact centre, there are...
Uptick in consumers banking outside normal hours
FNB is seeing rapid growth in the number of consumers that are doing their banking outside the normal banking hours due to the convenience of Automated Deposit Tellers (ADTs) which do not require users to go inside the branch. ADTs are self-help terminals that allow...
Make retail work with machine learning
In order to gain better control over stock flows and better serve their customers, retailers will need to turn to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve business efficiencies. Bradley Elliott, MD of digital agency Platinum Seed discusses the role that machine...
Look out for these trends in 2017
Unpredictable exchange rates and that of innovation are two of the most notable global trends that local IT entrepreneurs need to develop in 2017. This is according to Maria Motau, managing member at Ibhubesi Information Technologies and a beneficiary of the Innovator...
Lexmark named as workflow leader
Lexmark International has been recognised as a leader in document workflow services by prominent IT market research firm IDC in its IDC MarketScape: Western European Document Workflow Services Hardcopy 2016 Vendor Assessment report. The report delivers analysis and...
Mitsumi to distribute HP supplies in the Middle East
Mitsumi Distribution has been appointed by Hewlett Packard (HP) Middle East, as an Authorised HP Supplies Distributor for the Middle East region. HP and Mitsumi already have a well-established alliance of 6 years; this agreement further extends Mitsumi's East African...
ICT Sector Codes prompt big B-BBBEE deals
The new B-BBEE ICT sector codes, effective from November 2016, are having an impact as major IT and telecommunications companies respond to the business imperative to meet the new targets. The new ICT sector codes require a BEE ownership target of 30%, with at least...
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