Qualcomm sets new growth targets
Qualcomm has outlined significant opportunities for growth and diversification at its 2024 Investor Day. The company’s position at the edge is driving access to an expanded total addressable market (TAM) of approximately $900-billion by 2030, with more than 50-billion...
AI key to creating jobs for African youth
Artificial intelligence (AI) innovation can play a key role in addressing Africa’s persistent youth unemployment challenges and shaping a more prosperous future for the continent’s workforce. This is among the findings of new report from Caribou Digital, in...
OEMs launch 4th Gen Intel Xeon systems
On 10 January 2023, Intel officially launched its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) for data centre customers around the globe. All major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) are now...
Leverage economics, sustainability of cloud in the digital era
Kathy Gibson reports - The move to cloud is recognised as necessary for most organisations, but the journey to cloud is complex and can be challenging. IDC held its Cloud and Datacentre Roadshow in Johannesburg today (15 March 2023) to examine some of the challenges...
Economic activity slowdown mirrored in lower transactions
After two consecutive months of encouraging growth, the BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI) fell in February 2023, signalling the country's deteriorating economic activity. "At an index level of 131, the BETI for February slipped to October's level and...
Icasa regulations set to bring data relief
It's World Consumer Rights Day on 15 March and South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) is reminding the country's voice and data users of their new rights under the pro-consumer amendments to the End-User and Subscriber Service Charter (EUSSC)...
The next-normal state of the email landscape
After analysing data from more than 10-billion bulk emails from 2020 to 2022, the Everlytic Email Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 has discovered seismic shifts in user behaviour and engagement as the world returned to normal post-Covid. Unpacking insights, trends,...
Hybrid workers exercise more, sleep longer, eat better
A new study has revealed that hybrid working is leading to a healthier workforce, with more time being dedicated to exercise, sleep and healthy eating. Research among more than 2 000 hybrid workers by IWG reveals that the time saved by reduced commuting has led to...
Seacom goes live on Equiano subsea cable
Following its landing in Cape Town in August last year, Seacom has today gone live with express connectivity on the Equiano subsea cable connecting the Mother City to Lisbon, Portugal which it says is the fastest direct route between the two continents. "This launch...
Energy industrial control systems in Africa are a top cyberattack target
According to Kaspersky ICS CERT, in the second half of 2022, the company's security solutions globally blocked 6% more malware families on industrial automation systems than in the first half of the year - 147% more than in the second half of 2021. Compared to other...
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Trend Micro leads in email security
Trend Microhas been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Email Security 2016 Vendor Assessment. "Trend Micro is placed in the Leaders category in this [year's] IDC MarketScape for making its messaging product a prominent part of its security suite, which...
Microsoft’s HoloLens brings AR to the fore
Etienne de Villiers, leadpProgrammer at Fuzzy Logic, unwraps the potential for Microsoft's HoloLens Earlier this year, tech juggernaut Microsoft began shipping the developer's version of its HoloLens AR headset. A device that has been in development for years, the...
Financial resolutions for a new year
Anton van Heerden, executive vice-president: Africa & Middle East at Sage, point out that a new year brings fresh opportunities and challenges Here are some financial resolutions to kick-start your small business in 2017. Planning - Outline your plan for the year...
Software AG’s ARIS supports SAP Solution Manager 7.2
Software AG has announced that ARIS for SAP Solutions, a collaborative process improvement environment that enables convenient, on-demand documentation, analysis and streamlining of processes, is the first business process analysis (BPA) tool to support the new...
Addressing IT challenges in remote locations
The central office has traditionally been the centre of gravity for most organisations, writes Taj ElKhayat, regional vice-president: Middle East and Africa at Riverbed Technology. That is where the data centre is located, and where most of the IT staff works....
Safeguard your business from cybercrime
From malware to phishing and from hacking to theft of data storage devices, the risks of falling victim to a security gap are continually growing, writes Anton van Heerden, executive vice-pesident for Sage Africa & Middle East. If you are an African entrepreneur,...
Telcos risk becoming single-digit-margin businesses
Over the past two decades the telecommunications industry has been driven by new and faster technology, coupled with strong demand for connectivity - moving from the wireline arena to the mobile boom, and finally to the convergence of voice and data services, De Wet...
Planning for tomorrow’s cyberattacks
As organisations think through their cybersecurity strategy for the coming year the challenge they face is how to plan for success, writes Peter Bauer, CEO and co-founder of Mimecast. This past year we’ve seen how cybercriminals continue to become more sophisticated...
Trans-regional African trade set to pick up
An anticipated increase in demand for goods and services within Africa has the potential to give innovative companies with turnovers of between R300-million and R1,2-billion the opportunity to expand beyond the limits of their own borders, writes Karl Gotte, head of...
Zetes helps EPC comply with regulations
In response to new European regulations, the EPC Group, specialist in explosives for civil applications, has implemented Zetes’ solution for global unit traceability in its supply chain. The traceability solution harmonises the logistic processes of the different...
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