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Tech, data collection help NGOs effect social change
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New wave of online shoppers offers huge potential
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Carbon management will help enterprises tackle climate change
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Loadshedding impacts cost to communicate
Government's concern about the cost to communicate in South Africa must take into account the impact of the energy supply constraint national disaster on the cost of providing connectivity and internet access services. "Lowering voice and data costs is challenging...
Financial sector to drive security spend in Europe
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IoT devices in SA under cyberattack
During the course of last year, Kaspersky detected and blocked 221 695 cyberattacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices in South Africa; 45 562 attacks in Kenya; and 30 089 in Nigeria. All these attacks were blocked on Kaspersky honeypots - decoy devices used to...
Mixed results for smart devices in META
The Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) smart home devices market had a mixed performance in the last quarter of 2022 as end users adjusted their spending - and while shipments were up 15,9% YoY, the market was down 3,4% on Q3 2022. That's according to the latest...
Balancing privacy with customer data collection gets harder
A significant 60% of marketing leaders believe collecting first-party customer data with an appropriate balance of customer value exchange and privacy will become more challenging in 2023, according to a survey by Gartner. A Gartner survey of nearly 400 marketing...
These are the top cybersecurity predictions for 2023
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ESET boosts defences as ransomware mounts
ESET is strengthening its defenses against ransomware and has added Ransomware Shield, another layer protection, to its already existent protection technologies (Cloud Malware Protection System, Network Attack Protection and DNA detections). The feature is available...
Asset Print opens new doors with Xerox
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Itec SA launches Carbon Neutral programme
Itec SA has announced the expansion of their Carbon Neutral programme, an initiative that will now reduce their customers' printing related carbon footprint by offsetting this - at no additional charge - through sustainability specialists and partner, impactChoice....
Which SaaS is better for your business?
Experts have long debated the merits and drawbacks between multi-tenant and single-tenant SaaS architectures. Multi-tenant vendors tout and promote their model, saying it offers efficiencies in terms of IT management, cost cutting, and scale. Single-tenancy vendors...
AMD celebrates a decade of casino tech
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How to use data with off-grid telecom power
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Growing global payment network is good for Africa
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Design boosts e-learning uptake
Researchers at the Informatics Design Labs at the University of Pretoria (UP) are using eye-tracking technology to improve an e-learning platform currently being rolled out in several public and private schools. In some Gauteng schools, textbooks are very much last...
SilverBridge subsidiary takes insurance solutions into Africa
Cirrus, a subsidiary of the SilverBridge Group, is using Microsoft Azure as the foundation for the Exergy managed services offering, designed for the long-term insurance industry in Africa. This will provide insurance companies across the continent with a...
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