Collaboration key for African connectivity
Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom – Africa is a land of opportunity, gifted with young people with great passion. Mohamed Madkour, vice-president: ICT strategy and marketing at Huawei, shares that Africa’s development in terms of connectivity has been impressive,...
SA poised on the edge of a widening digital divide
Kathy Gibson reports – Africa is lagging the rest of the world in connectivity and access to digital opportunities – and it’s not going to catch up any time soon unless we fundamentally change the way we provide access, power, and devices. And, while South Africa is...
Don’t be a chop: avoid pig butchering scams
New research from Atlas VPN shows that 25,7% of pig butchering scams had their first point of contact on dating websites. Pig butchering is a relatively recent social engineering scam in which fraudsters contact people via social media sites or emails and text...
Kidnapping for ransom threat looms larger
Kidnapping for ransom and extortion is fast becoming a lucrative business in South Africa, with the current tough economic conditions making people increasingly desperate to find ways to make a quick buck. Statistics released in a report by the Global Initiative...
Africa faces significant threats from increasingly advanced cyberattacks
With Africa experiencing the highest volume of cyberattacks in the world last year, according to the Check Point Software 2022 Security Report, organisations and consumers on the continent need to be more aware of the threats they face in the digital landscape. To...
European printer sales surge in Q4 2022
Sales through European distributors of printer hardware increased in Q4 2022, with both volumes and revenues exceeding expectations, according to market research organisation, Context. Context's latest data reveals a 12,3% year-on-year (YoY) increase in unit sales and...
Will SA employers be able to give wage increases this year?
Can South African workers look forward to increases in line with the cost of living this year? According to Dr Mark Bussin, master reward specialist and Exco member at the South African Reward Association (SARA), economic instability in the country makes this unlikely...
Wise Move looks to the future with ChatGPT
South Africa's only online moving platform, Wise Move, says it has integrated OpenAI's ChatGPT to not only offer an unmatched customer experience, but to also give movers a major competitive edge. Wise Move co-founder and newly appointed CEO, Chante Venter strongly...
RSAWeb slowly brings services back online
Internet service provider (ISP) RSAWeb is still dealing with a sophisticated cyberattack that brought many of its services down a week ago. The “service-impacting event” is believed to have been a sophisticated cyber-attack, possibly ransomware. As a result of the...
Pop culture the biggest influencer of African youth
Pop culture is the biggest influencer of African youth, according to the "Who is Influencing Who? Unpacking Youth and Influence in Africa" report. The latest report by Africa No Filter investigates Africa's influence on the world, its influences on African youth, and...
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DRS appointed local ForeScout reseller
DRS, a Cognosec company and a broad-based distributor and reseller of security solutions, has added the ForeScout range of network access control solutions to its offerings. Robert Brown, CEO of DRS, says the agreement will help expand ForeScout's reach. ForeScout...
Industry 4.0: Bosch and SAP combine expertise
Robert Bosch GmbH and SAP have formed a strategic partnership for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. Both companies want to expand their collaboration on cloud technologies and software solutions. Their joint approach promises to speed up manufacturing and...
Nokia, T-Mobile showcase the potential of 5G
Nokia and T-Mobile US continue to expand their collaborative partnership to show the capabilities of 5G technology with recent achievements around a pre-standards 5G test network. The 5G air interface lab test used T-Mobile's 28GHz spectrum and Nokia's commercial...
Dell EMC expands broad Microsoft support
Dell EMC have broadened support of Microsoft environments with new Microsoft Azure Services, Validated Systems for Microsoft Exchange and SQL, as well as customer momentum for the Dell EMC Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft. The new services and validated systems can...
Mastercard accelerates commerce innovation
Mastercard has made it easier for developers to create next-generation commerce solutions with the launch of Mastercard Developers. This single gateway enables Mastercard partners to access a diverse range of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) across payments,...
Corporate entrepreneurship, innovation keys for growth
With South African business facing ongoing challenges posed by the drought, dwindling levels of consumer spending, reducing margins and the risk of a ratings downgrade, there has never been more demand for 'corporate entrepreneurs' - particularly in businesses that...
Accenture launches training for disabled people
Accenture has launched the EmployAbility Cadet Programme in South Africa for persons with disabilities, through which Accenture aims to support disability inclusion in the ICT sector. The launch was conducted in conjunction with programme partners KLM Empowered,...
HP workstation gets processing boost
The HP Z240 has long been a workhorse for power-hungry small and medium businesses, such as design companies, video production studios and architecture firms. But it is now more powerful with a double-digit boost to its processing power, memory and the addition of a...
Technology’s role in economic transport hubs
Technology-enabled public transport systems have the potential to become far more than merely ways to get people from the proverbial 'A to B', writes Harry van Huyssteen, transport industry subject matter expert at T-Systems South Africa. With innovations like...
AWS debuts P2 instances for Amazon EC2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of P2 instances, a new GPU instance type for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) designed for compute-intensive applications that require massive parallel floating point performance, including artificial...
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