Digital companies’ emission reductions lag climate commitments

Despite progress in climate reporting and renewable electricity use, digital companies are falling short in cutting emissions at the pace required to achieve global climate targets, according to the new report Greening Digital Companies: Monitoring Emissions and...

Transport costs keep millions away from work and education

As South Africans face sharply higher fuel prices from yesterday, new Ipsos research shows that transport affordability is already affecting access to work and education for a significant number of people. The nationally representative findings, from the Ipsos...

ID-based attacks rife as phishing, authentication abuse on the rise

Phishing accounted for more than half of cybersecurity incident response engagements in the second quarter of 2026, while authentication abuse was observed in 65% of engagements, according to the latest Incident Response Trends report from Cisco Talos. The findings...

Tech sales under the lash as consumers curb spending

South Africa’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market is proving resilient so far in 2026, although retailers and brands in the tech and durables (T&D) sector are experiencing a number of challenges. This is according to NielsenIQ (NIQ) South Africa, which has...

AI, privacy shape consumer cybersecurity landscape

According to Kaspersky's latest report, artificial intelligence (AI) will become an integral part of daily life, while privacy concerns around biometric data and advanced technologies will take center stage in 2025. These forecasts are part of the annual Kaspersky...

AI, security, infrastructure to drive reseller revenue

IT partners around the world are anticipating a transformative wave of AI technology demand that will drive the majority of revenue over the next four to five years. This is among the findings from the new Cisco Global AI Partners Study, titled Bridging the Customer...

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...

This is what an asteroid looks like when hit with a spacecraft

Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1 200-pound NASA spacecraft called DART on 26 September 2022. The primary objective of DART, which...

Least developed countries face deepening digital divide

The digital connectivity divide separating the globe's least developed countries (LDCs) from the world as a whole shows no sign of narrowing. In fact, it is widening on key factors, according to ITU's Facts and Figures: Focus on Least Developed Countries. While the...

ISPA cautions against forced fibre upgrades

The Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA) has sounded a word of caution about fibre network operators (FNOs) forcing upgrades on consumers. While upgrades advertising "more for the same price", for example, are indeed good news for most...

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The world is engaged in an invisible war, with honest businesses at one end and fiercely determined cybercriminals at the other, writes Nithen Naidoo, CIO of Snode. Cybersecurity is no longer just a pressing concern for the IT industry, it is a very real issue that...

Siemens IoT gateway exclusively from RS Components

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The value of big data in fraud mitigation

Fintech company MyBucks has invested in technology that is specifically aimed at exploiting big data to mitigate fraud and identity theft. With its own in-house artificial intelligence (AI) team, Dave van Niekerk, CEO of MyBucks, explains that by using classification...

Vox upgrades Nerve Centre technology

Integrated ICT and connectivity provider, Vox has upgraded its software platform of choice in its Nerve Centre (remote monitoring facility) in an effort to unlock additional capabilities for its customers. "The upgraded platform combines the existing monitoring...

Drones, collection points to boost e-commerce

The unique demands of the South African online shopping context require innovative thinking around delivery and returns, which is why the eCommerce team at The Foschini Group (TFG) has introduced third party collection points and is considering the use of drones, in...

Hot Ink continues upmarket investment with Xerox

Cape Town's well-known high-street digital print and design specialist Hot Ink has continued its investment in upmarket equipment with the purchase of a new Xerox Versant 80 press from Cape Office Machines and Bytes Document Solutions. The new machine has integrated...

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The 21st century has been declared the era of mobile communications, and appropriately so, writes Dale Engelbrecht, key account manager at Jasco Carrier. In 2014, according to Cisco's Visual Networking Index (VNI) the total number of connected mobile devices...

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An innovative and rapidly expanding Tech company, has a permanent vacancy for a suitably qualified and experienced Agile IT Project Manager, based in Umhlanga.We are looking for an enthusiastic IT Project Manager who will be responsible for developing Project Plans...

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