Retail threats surge ahead of Black Friday
In 2024, cybercriminals launched over 38-million phishing attacks, impersonating major marketplaces, banks, and tech retailers. Stolen payment card data is actively traded on dark web forums, with prices ranging from $70 to $315 per set. As shoppers prepare for major...
Call for Earthshot Prize 2025 entries
Following a record-breaking year for nominations, and a historic first awards ceremony on the African continent, The Earthshot Prize (TEP) is officially open for entries for its 2025 cohort. TEP seeks innovative solutions across five critical Earthshots: Protect and...
Commercial buying set to buoy PC and tablet shipments
Declining demand and challenging macro-economic conditions have caused International Data Corporation (IDC) to further lower its forecast for the worldwide PC and tablet markets. Global shipments are now expected to total 403,1-million units in 2023, down from the...
Mobile phones start to dominate Web traffic
Mobile Internet traffic has almost doubled in the last eight years with close to two-thirds of Web traffic coming from mobile devices, according to data from CasinoEnLigne.com, which adds that mobile phones made up 59% of total Web traffic last year - nearly 10% more...
Strong Q4 growth fails to fuel overall peripherals market
The worldwide hardcopy peripherals market saw overall shipments grow 11,6% year-over-year (YoY) to nearly 25-million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker. Shipment value during the quarter...
Most major firms fail to disclose operational emission targets
New research from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Microsoft indicates that a massive 84% of major global companies have yet to set public science-based targets to reduce direct operational emissions from their supply chains - and that only 11% have actually...
US race for digital dollar fuels case for Bitcoin
With the US government's work on a potential digital dollar accelerating - meaning a digital greenback could soon be a reality in the US - the case for Bitcoin becomes "significantly stronger", according to deVere Group CEO and founder, Nigel Green. Green says his...
Trends influencing FP&A and controller functions in finance
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and controllership leaders need to have a plan to harness the ways digital acceleration is disrupting legacy processes in their functions, says Gartner. "We're seeing widespread acceptance among finance leaders that...
This is why SA companies would outsource security
Kaspersky's annual IT Security Economics report reveals that the complexity of cybersecurity solutions forced companies to outsource some functions to external infosec providers: they have more relevant expertise and can manage the technologies more efficiently than...
Instant payment transactions to exceed 235bn by 2027
A study from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumer instant payments will exceed 235-billion in 2027; up from 74-billion in 2023. This growth of 218% will be driven by lower merchant acceptance costs when compared to traditional card schemes. This is...
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Mastercard launches mobile marketplace in East Africa
Mastercard has launched 2KUZE, a digital platform that connects smallholder farmers, agents, buyers and banks in East Africa. 2KUZE, which in Swahili means "Let's grow together," enables farmers to buy, sell and receive payments for agricultural goods via their...
SA organisations must get to know their customers
While successful international businesses have long focused on customer experience as a major factor influencing a healthy return on investment, the same can unfortunately not be said for South African organisations who are letting this crucial business consideration...
Tallying the ripple costs of a cyber attack
The cost of any type of theft is often a lot higher than just the value of the stolen goods, writes Doros Hadjizenonos, country manager of Check Point South Africa. If your house was broken into, you would feel violated. While your insurance company would reimburse...
Otel Connect store aims to simplify voice, data
South Africa's increasingly competitive telecoms landscape is good news for the economy but potentially confusing for the consumer. Local fixed, mobile and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) users today have a choice of a couple of fixed line providers, several...
Accenture appoints Wayne Hull as local MD
Accenture has announced the appointment of Wayne Hull as managing director and head of Accenture Digital for South and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining Accenture, Hull was the digital advisor for Sportradar Global. He has held a number of senior positions...
New executive for Bytes Managed Solutions
Bytes Managed Solutions, part of the Altron group of companies, has announced the appointment Abdut Rahmani as its new business enablement and transformation executive. This is part of the organisation's ongoing focus on business transformation to support its strategy...
Start preparing for POPI now
The Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) may not have been made effective yet, but businesses need to make compliance one of their top priorities for 2017. This according to Wayne Clarke, managing director of Metrofile Records Management, who states that the...
Infinidat array gets no-footprint iSCSI
Big iron array vendor Infinidat has made its third major software release, adding compression, baked-in iSCSI support and enhanced array analytics. The company's architecture has three controller nodes, which each can see all the drives, and eschews an all-flash...
T-Systems offers simplified application landscapes
T-Systems has released its Application Modernisation and Management to Go (AMM2Go) service to South African businesses. As local companies look to transform digitally, to compete in the modern digital era, AMM2Go allows clients to focus on their strategic business...
Is flash poised to kill disk for primary storage?
Flash is now the only realistic choice for primary storage with the performance and bottom line benefits it brings. The historic concerns over cost and stability are now a thing of the past, meaning all-flash arrays are well on their way to becoming the dominant force...
Full Stack Developer – Western Cape Cape Town Region
Our client who has paved the way in the Easy Pay space seeks a Senior Fullstack Developer to join our innovative team on a 1 - year contract basis. Reporting directly to the Delivery Manager for the Online Payments Product, you will play a crucial role in developing...
Application Support Technician
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Donor-funded Lesotho Project Manager at Landell Mills
Irrigated Horticulture Support Services Activity (Horticulture, Training, Gender, and Social Development (HTGSD) Consultant) The Market Driven Irrigation Horticulture (MDIH) Project, part of the MCC Lesotho II Compact, aims to increase rural incomes through commercial...
Technical Project Manager
We are looking for a highly technical Project Manager who knows their way around projects in offshore oil & gas. Is this you?You're technically qualified with experience in complex projects in the Marine Mining, Oil and Gas, Marine Infrastructure or Heavy...
Intermediate Software Developer
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SOFTWARE ENGINEER (LEVEL-3) – Cape Town – Hybrid
Hire Resolve is searching for a talented Software Engineer (Level 3) to join their dynamic team in Cape Town. This position offers a hybrid work model, allowing for flexibility while maintaining collaboration with an innovative team. As a Level 3 Software Engineer,...
Application Support Technician – Remote Remote
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Donor-funded Lesotho Project Manager at Landell Mills – Remote Remote
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Technical Project Manager – Western Cape Brooklyn
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Intermediate Software Developer – Remote Remote
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