Harnessing a sales culture can drive performance
Harnessing an organisation's sales culture can lead to improved sales performance, according to Gartner. "Culture is often an afterthought for sales leaders - it's something that just exists, but is off track or isn't actively managed," says Shayne Jackson, senior...
International tourism close to pre-pandemic levels
International tourist arrivals reached 97% of pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2024. According to UN Tourism, more than 285-million tourists travelled internationally in January-March, about 20% more than the first quarter of 2023, underscoring the sector's...
Darknet forums target corporate infrastructure
Selling access to corporate infrastructure is one of the most popular topics on Darknet forums currently, accounting for 12% of all messages in trade forum sections analysed. This is according to Yuliya Novikova, head of security services analysis at Kaspersky, who...
Virtual assistants, digital humans could be close to acing Turing Test
Nvidia has announced the Nvidia Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a suite of cloud-native AI models and services that make it easier to build and customize lifelike virtual assistants and digital humans. By bringing these models and services to the cloud, ACE...
AI-equipped drones study dolphins on the edge of extinction
Small in size and with a distinctive, rounded dorsal fin, Māui dolphins are one of the rarest and most threatened dolphins in the sea, with a known population of just 54. Decades of fishing practices, such as gillnetting off the west coast of New Zealand in the South...
AI, analytics key to developing African hydrocarbons
Africa has had massive oil and gas discoveries in recent years – including the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore Senegal and Mauritania, the Luiperd and Brulpadda in South Africa and the Rovuma Basin discoveries offshore Mozambique, among others – but development has...
Betelgeuse slowly recovers after blowing its top
Analysing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic...
New challenges as we move beyond digitalisation
While digital transformation has meant the increasing prominence of digital technologies in traditional industries, there will be decreasing prominence of digital technologies in the next era. This is the word from the Gartner Research Board, which adds this isn't a...
Intel extends protection to physical threats
Intel improves software reliability by building silicon enhancements realised through logic inside the processor. Now, the company has described a new technique to complement existing software mitigations for fault injection attacks. Tunable Replica Circuit (TRC) -...
DeathStalker unleashes VileRat on crypto, forex companies
Kaspersky researchers have been tracking attack campaigns from the DeathStalker hack-for-hire group since 2018. Recent analysis shows that the threat actor updated its evasive VileRat toolset to attack cryptocurrency and foreign currency exchange companies in...
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Affordable flash reshaping economics of enterprise storage
The advent of new flash drives based on triple level cell (TLC) 3D NAND technology promise to reshape the enterprise storage market by making solid-state drive (SSD) arrays more affordable than ever - positioning them for wider adoption in the mainstream market. With...
Forget big data: smart data counts in HR
Attracting and retaining the best talent is widely recognised to be an important success factor, if not the success factor, when it comes to achieving competitive advantage. "Unfortunately, too many companies continue to rely on poor information when it comes to...
Raising awareness of cloud security in SA
The broad adoption of cloud computing technologies and services in South Africa has gained pace over the past few years. Local businesses of all types and sizes are using cloud services because maintaining their own infrastructure is costly, and they hope to boost...
International business risk set to increase
Take heed: the risk inherent in doing international business is about to increase, write Willem Janse van Rensburg and Alecia Pienaar from Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. The UK's proposed extension of "failure-to-prevent" offences to include economic crimes coupled with the...
Give employees reasons to stick around
Winning over and retaining the best talent has never easy, but employers today are finding it harder than ever to find people with the right skills to fill key vacancies, writes Ronnie Toerien, Oracle ECEMEA spokesperson for human capital management. If businesses are...
The business case for gamification
Over the past several years, gamification, the concept of applying game mechanics and game design techniques to engage and motivate people, has found its way into the corporate lexicon, with companies scrambling to 'gamify' elements of their business - both internally...
IT as energy: changing the outsource debate
Information Technology (IT) as energy is not a new concept but has been spoken about in the 1990s and the early 2000s. It is the analogy were IT services can be regarded in a similar light to energy, writes AJ Hartenberg, portfolio manager: data centre services at...
How to run successful load tests
Load testing is instrumental to any web or mobile presence, whether it is e-commerce, bookings, media, governmental or something else - a modern ambitious enterprise needs to have the highest possible web performance standards. But how do you carry out a successful...
Zambian programme achieves hunger alleviation
Programmes designed to alleviate hunger and increase food supply through cash transfers to some of Zambia's poorest families achieved those goals and more, final evaluations conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) revealed. Overall, researchers found...
Simplifying payments to do better business
Just about everything in the world has changed due to the rise of digital - the payments industry has been no exception. In November 2015, McKinsey and Company correctly predicted that nonbank digital entrants will transform the customer experience, reshaping the...
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