PC shipments dip, despite recovery economy
Even though the global economy shows signs of recovery, worldwide shipments of traditional PCs dipped 2,4% year-over-year (YoY) to 68,8-million units, during the third quarter of 2024 (3Q24), according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation...
Economic transactions track lower in September
The BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI), which measures the value of all electronic transactions cleared through BankservAfrica at seasonally adjusted real prices, softened somewhat in September. However, increasing optimism, along with the positive...
Ransomware attackers are setting the cybersecurity agenda
The news that the Royal Mail has been hit by a ransomware attack is a sharp reminder that no company is immune from attack. This is the view of David Bicknell, principal analyst in the Thematic Intelligence team at GlobalData, who companies need to improve their...
Nvidia, Evozyne create generative AI model for proteins
Using a pretrained AI model from Nvidia, startup Evozyne has created two proteins with significant potential in healthcare and clean energy. A joint paper released today describes the process and the biological building blocks it produced. One aims to cure a...
Remote patient monitoring to reach 115m by 2027
A new study from Juniper Research found that the total number of patients using RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) solutions will reach 115,5-million globally by 2027, equating to 1,4% of the total population. This is an increase from only 75-million in 2023. This growth...
How technology will power retailer resiliency and agility in 2023
In 2023, retailers are facing challenges on multiple fronts. Consumers are increasingly fragmented by generation, spending power, life stage, and attitude, and the impact of inflation and other economic pressures have increased the importance of value. By Luq Niazi,...
Influencers think Microsoft investment in OpenAI threatens Google search engine dominance
Microsoft's plan to invest $10-billion in OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT chatbot, has generated a buzz on Twitter. Influencers are confident that it is the shrewdest bet through which Microsoft could end Google's search-engine dominance. In line with this, Twitter...
The last of the scams …
"The Last of Us", one of the most anticipated series based on the PlayStation game of the same name, is finally out on the HBO channel (on 15 January 2023). Knowing that after the series release the "The Last of Us" universe will have hundreds of thousands of new...
New research shows now ancient chimaeras fed
A rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimaera has revealed new clues about the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous period, some 300-million years ago. Research led by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the University of...
Earth continues warming trend in 2022
Earth's average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2022 were 0,89 degrees Celsius above the average for NASA's baseline...
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After-action analysis of the Mirai botnet attacks
Last week saw a series of DDoS attacks levelled against the DYN DNS. Allison Nixon, director of security research at Flashpoint, unpacks the event. On October 21, 2016, a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Dyn DNS impacted the availability...
Don’t neglect workforce management
With South Africa's economy under intense pressure and the fallout of socio-political uncertainty impacting significantly on investment, the business climate is volatile to say the least. However, while most companies are holding back on spending and are looking to...
Java skills can help youth get employment
A year ago, Storm Brown, 18, had little hope of continuing his education after high school, and thought it unlikely he'd be employed and on a career track any time soon. Today, however, he's already spent three months in a paid internship, which has since been...
Snode brings advanced cybersecurity to SA
Cyber-intelligence company Snode has launched in South Africa. The company utilises advanced mathematical algorithms, the processing power of learning machines, and predictive analytics; providing real-time intelligence to your business. Snode provides insights into...
SA venture capital company aims to launch local start-ups
Helping start-ups to take off, a group of successful South African entrepreneurs has launched a venture capital (VC) company that doesn't just invest in early stage start-ups, but nurtures them through each phase of their business growth cycle, with the aim of scaling...
Social media liability insurance a must
A study by World Wide Worx and Fuseware has revealed that Facebook is being used by about 13-million South Africans, which is a quarter of the country's population. All these people have the means to write, publish and circulate articles and video recordings faster...
Why are banks struggling with big data?
Financial institutions are ideally positioned to reap a host of benefits from big data, given their access to multiple streams of information, writes Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. However, most banks are still standing at the edge of the big data wave,...
Veeam aims to dominate Office 365 backup and availability
Last year, more than 205-billion emails were sent each day and this will rise by 5% in 2016, which proves that email remains a cornerstone of modern communications and its importance cannot be underestimated. With this, Veeam Software has announced that initial...
Governments struggle with outdated systems
The legacy of enterprise management systems used by parastatals and State Owned Enterprises (SOE) is renowned for its exorbitant software development and implementation costs as a result of inadequate IT requirement scoping and current legacy solutions pricing...
Digitising customer documents key to transformation
Organisations need to embrace digital processes or risk being left behind by more agile competitors. In a time of tight IT budgets, it would be a mistake to prioritise other projects over digital transformation initiatives because of the advantages to be gained....
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