Updated: Faulty security update behind global IT outage
Businesses around the world have been hit by a massive outage this morning, as Microsoft Windows machines fail to boot up. Ironically, the cause is believed to be a faulty update in Crowdstrike security software. Airports, hospitals and media companies are among the...
Employees run high burnout risk
A worryingly high number of employees are at a high risk of burnout. And, without a plan to improve employee health and wellbeing, or assistance from AI and other technologies, organisational burnout risk spreads from managers to employees - a potential domino effect...
Q4: What to expect in terms of liquidations and business rescue
Although consumers can expect some relief at the petrol pumps, our economy will take much longer to recover. Unfortunately, Covid-19 has left us with an economic crisis with inflation growing rapidly, rising interest rates and all-time high unemployment rates. This...
Views on corruption drive attitude to tax systems
Taxpayers' attitudes about paying taxes correlate closely with perceived levels of corruption, according to a major new study - Public Trust in Tax - by accountancy bodies ACCA and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). A survey of 5 900 people across 14...
The metaverse will open up opportunities for Africa
The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was held this year as the world continues to see complex socio-economic issues, writes Balkissa Ide Siddo, public policy director, sub-Saharan Africa. Many economies are still reeling from the Covid-19...
Untrained employees pose major security risk
Security specialist KnowBe4 has released a report showing that, without training, 21% of the untrained global workforce did not know who to go to when faced with a security breach. The minutes that lapse between an employee seeing a potential security threat and the...
Positive growth continues for unified communications and collaboration
The worldwide Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) market grew 11,4% year over year and 2,9% compared to the previous quarter to $14,8-billion in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Unified Communications and...
MultiChoice expands platform with emergency response app
MultiChoice is now offering its customers in South Africa access to affordable medical and security services following the recent acquisition of on-demand emergency response app Namola. Namola enables users to summon the nearest vetted private or public security and...
Long road ahead for AR headsets
Worldwide shipments of Augmented Reality (AR) headsets are forecast to decline 8,7% year over year to nearly 260 000 units by the end of 2022, according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset...
2022 Arctic summer sea ice tied for 10th-lowest on record
According to satellite observations, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on 18 September 2022. The ice cover shrank to an area of 4,67-million square kilometers this year, roughly 1,55-million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average minimum of...
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Why are security operation centres failing?
While definitions vary, generally speaking a security operation centre (SOC) is a central point from where all security issues are dealt with on an organisational and technical level. Typically, it will encompass all the enterprise's information systems - from web...
Yahsat signs Tele10 MOU in DRC
UAE-based satellite operator Yahsat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tele10 Group, the regional broadcast and internet service provider, to discuss collaborations for improving internet connectivity in Rwanda, Burundi and East Democratic Republic of...
SAP aims to train 150k youngsters
SAP SE will train more than 150 000 youth in 30 African countries this year to foster digital literacy and equip the continent's rising generation with job-relevant digital skills. SAP's Africa Code Week 2016 will run from October 15 - 23, 2016, with thousands of free...
T-Systems sponsors Wayde van Niekerk
T- Systems South Africa is sponsoring 400m World Champion Wayde van Niekerk. The sponsorship will see T-Systems South Africa support van Niekerk to advance his athletics career and assist to launch the Wayde van Niekerk Foundation, an initiative founded by van Niekerk...
BlackBerry strengthens enterprise partner programme
BlackBerry has announced the evolution of its Enterprise Partner Programme for solutions providers. Through the programme, BlackBerry will provide partners with best practices that enhance their skills to offer and support BlackBerry's cross platform security and...
Enermatics powers up commercial energy supply
Enermatics, a provider of smart metering technology and reseller of power to end users, has established an offering - Enermatics smart metering solutions - tailored to the requirements of the commercial market. Specifically, the company's service and support is...
CT community takes Dribbble’s Silver Bucket Award
Cape Town Dribbble Meetup organiser, Isoflow, has been awarded the international Silver Bucket Award; given every year to the most active Dribbble community in the world. Werner Janse van Rensburg, MD of Isoflow, comments: "This is the first time that the bucket has...
Artificial intelligence for call centres
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed technology that can be easily set up and autonomously carry on a dialogue, based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology, while accurately understanding a user's request and naturally eliciting the necessary information. The...
Tigo takes the lead in Tanzania
Tanzania's digital lifestyle telecom operator, Tigo, is now the leading mobile telephone company with the fastest and widest 4G LTE network in the Tanzania. Since its inception in April 2015 in Dar Es Salaam, Tigo 4G LTE has expanded to Arusha, Tanga, Dodoma,...
Ideco to showcase mobile biometrics console
Local biometrics experts Ideco will showcase its new all-in-one mobile biometrics unit at Securex, to be held in Sandton from 24 to 26 May 2016. The solution was recently launched at the connectID 2016 conference and expo in Washington, US. The Biometric Identity...
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