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...

Cisco deepens AI innovations to transform itself

Cisco – long a leader in the use of AI – has unveiled a wide variety of new and upcoming platform enhancements powered by the technology at its annual WebexOne showcase event to make it clear that the association has deepened, says GlobalData. Gregg Willsky, principal...

AI data centres add new power challenges

Kathy Gibson reports - The sustainable and reliable supply of power is a key concern as rapidly-growing data centres consume more and more electricity. The last 20 years have seen a massive evolution in the data centre, , which has created new challenges for power and...

AI joins the hunt for aliens – and finds intriguing signals

Artificial intelligence is now a part of the quest to find extraterrestrial life. Researchers have developed an AI system that outperforms traditional methods in the search for alien signals. And early results were intriguing enough to send scientists back to their...

SARS claws its way back

Kathy Gibson reports - Machine learning (ML) in risk analysis has helped the South African Revenue Services (SARS) increase what it calls the "compliance dividend", collecting more taxes and alleviating the need to increase the taxpayers' burden. That's the word from...

IBM, NASA use AI to research climate change impact

IBM and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre have announce a collaboration to use IBM's artificial intelligence (AI) technology to discover new insights in NASA's massive trove of Earth and geospatial science data. The joint work will apply AI foundation model...

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...

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...

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Are you doing enough to secure your online identity?

Do your shopping habits put you at risk? Are you exposing yourself - and your confidential information - to opportunistic fraudsters? These are questions that online shoppers should be asking themselves says Mark Chirnside, CEO of ThisIsMe, who adds that South...

IoT and the changing role of service providers

Until now, the offerings of Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) have been geared towards mobile broadband and voice packages, writes Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks. As a result, their networks have been built to cater for personal devices such as...

Sophos expands cloud-based management platform

Sophos as announced that Sophos Email is now available in its cloud-based Sophos Central management platform. Customers and partners can now manage their email protection solution alongside Sophos endpoint, mobile, web and wireless security products from a unified,...

Zebra design wins gold at IDEA 2016

Zebra Technologies' TC8000 enterprise mobile computer has been named a Gold winner in the 36th annual International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) conducted by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and judged by renowned design experts from around the...

How public sector benefit from big data

Now that the dust around the local elections has settled, the spotlight will be on the various municipalities to prove that they are worthy of the public's votes, writes Gary de Menezes, NetApp country manager for southern Africa. Enhanced service delivery will no...

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...

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Project Manager at Construct Executive Search – Gauteng West Rand

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