Private partnerships sought to save Post Office
Treasury support is being sought in forming a task team to pursue private financial and operational partners for the South African Post Office (SAPO). “This will enable serious consideration of privatisation scenarios as a preferential option to further funding from...
AI fuels explosive growth in shared cloud infrastructure
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments - including dedicated and shared IT environments -...
Vodacom acquires majority interest in Vodafone Egypt
Vodacom Group has acquired a 55% interest in Vodafone Egypt Telecommunications from Vodafone Europe and Vodafone International Holdings, both indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries of Vodafone Group. The acquisition was first proposed in January 2022, and all suspensive...
SA among top countries losing money to data breaches
New research has revealed the top 10 countries losing the most money to data breaches - and South Africa features in 10th place with an average data breach cost of $3 210 000. A study by Proxyrack looked into the countries and industries losing the most money to data...
Targeted ransomware doubled in 2022
During the first 10 months of 2022, the proportion of users attacked by targeted ransomware has almost doubled compared to the same period of 2021. Such a striking growth indicates that ransomware gangs have continued mastering their techniques - the infamous ones as...
TB R&D funding passes $1bn but falls short of goals
For the first time in history, funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) hit a billion dollars worldwide in 2021. This marked a significant milestone that nonetheless falls significantly short of what's needed to stay on track to end TB,...
$30bn pledged to bring the world online
Commitments worth $29,92-billion have been pledged since March to bring the world's hardest-to-connect communities online, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for ICT. The total commitments, coming in 578...
Privacy-preserving AI technique improves brain tumour detection
Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning - a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach - to help international...
Sharp decline for African smartphone market
Newly-released data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Africa's overall mobile phone market suffered a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 19,9% in Q3 2022 to total 42,2-million units. The feature phone market was down 20,1% YoY to 24,4-million...
New date set for analogue switch-off
The Broadcast Digital Migration is almost complete and a new analogue switch-off date, and end of dual illumination period, has been set for 31 March 2023. In making the announcement of her intention to switch off the analogue signal on that date, Minister of...
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Designing African digital banking experiences
As mobile internet connectivity grows, African youth are fast embracing the opportunity to connect, converse and transact on the web, writes Dewald Nolte, vice-president: business at Entersekt. According to the GSMA (Mobile Economy Report 2015), mobile internet...
Veeam unveils Availability Platform for hybrid cloud
Veeam Software has announced the next generation of Availability: Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud. According to IDC, enterprises are engaged in a continuous digital transformation process as they adapt to or drive disruption by leveraging digital...
Skills focus needed in SA payroll industry
The growing complexity of the payroll function is creating pressure on those managing and working in payroll departments to improve their skills and adhere to common standards. "Globally, payroll is increasingly becoming a professional discipline," says Lavine...
Business benefits of an efficient CRM system
CRM is a great deal more than a marketing tool. In fact, an efficient CRM system can deliver enterprise-wide business benefits. Viesturs Zalaiskalns, channel manager at HansaWorld South Africa, explains how advanced CRM benefits the whole organization. CRM has evolved...
How outsourcing payroll can benefit the business
Marina Nolte, head of outsourcing at Sage HR & Payroll, points out that the 'do-it-yourself' instinct that inspires you as an entrepreneur to start a business can also prevent you from recognising when it's time to stop trying to do everything yourself. One aspect...
Building the foundations of an Industry 4.0 network
The first industrial revolution was based on the use of steam to power machines. The second centred on the use of electricity to supply energy to assembly lines. The third came about with the use of electronics and IT to further automate production. But all of that is...
DVT to double software test centre capacity
Software and solutions specialist company DVT is looking to double the capacity of its Global Test Centre (GTC) in Cape Town with a significant increase in the intake of trainee testers and developers over the next 18 months to two years. The DVT GTC is the largest...
Make employee time management pain-free
Companies employ costly knowledge workers and subject experts to trade their expertise for an hourly consulting fee and collect a tidy return on their payroll investment. But financial managers often find themselves burdened with time-consuming investigations to...
Making sense of the cloud
Cloud technology is firmly established in South Africa with many companies already on board, leveraging the many benefits, writes Sadiq Munshi, head of product development at Jasco Enterprise. However, in a marketing laden world where the word 'cloud' has been bandied...
Data quality critical for accurate billing
The ability to collect payments is the cornerstone of any successful business, writes Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. However, studies indicate that organisations may lose as much as six percent of their potential revenue because of discrepancies between...
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