Cloud key to SA’s digitalisation goals
Kathy Gibson reports – Government has a firm policy t drive digital innovation, with the aim of improving service delivery while helping to uplift citizens. Nonkqubela Thathakahle Jordan-Dyani, director-general of the Department of Communications and Digital...
Huawei details ‘cloud everywhere’ strategy
Kathy Gibson reports - Everything as a service: that’s the goal that Huawei Cloud is aiming for in a world where technology innovation is moving at an unprecedented pace. Huawei built the first local cloud region in Johannesburg in 2019. Since then, it has signed up...
30 years on, SMS popularity is still growing
Despite the rise of new communication channels, Short Message Service (SMS) remains popular, with a 75% increase in use in 2022 compared to 2021. This is among the findings from an Infobip study marking 30 years after a software programmer sent the first message on 3...
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...
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Smart home? Think smart protection first
As technology continues pushing the boundaries of what was previously thought possible, the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how we work and live. With our corporate IT department responsible for keeping our data safe at work, Sherry Zameer, Senior Vice President...
VAST Networks partners with WirelessG on WiFi
VAST Networks, Africa's first open-access WiFi Network, announces WirelessG as its latest partner to provide World-Class Wi-Fi in South Africa. On finalising the partnership Grant Marais, CEO of VAST Networks says: "With the launch of WirelessG, it validates that...
Intervate launches AR Accelerator
Intervate has announced the launch of its AR Accelerator, powered by Linxus, to enhance organisations' Accounts Receivable departments and reduce debtor's days. The solution was developed by Linxus, a local technology company that connects people, process and...
CA Technologies delivers Agile management
CA Technologies has announced new capabilities in its Agile Management portfolio that allow organisations to deliver value faster, from upfront planning to execution to customer support. "In today's application economy, the most successful companies differentiate...
Fortinet acquires AccelOps
Fortinet has announced its acquisition of AccelOps, a leading provider of network security monitoring and analytics solutions. The acquisition further extends Fortinet's recently announced Security Fabric strategy by enhancing network security visibility, security...
Informal Solutions acquires M4JAM
Telco product distributor, Informal Solution Providers has announced its acquisition of micro-jobbing platform, M4JAM (Money for Jam). Informal Solution Providers will trade under the name M4JAM. The acquisition helps turn Informal Solution's plan to build an active...
Vodacom Business scales up cloud capability
South African corporates shifting to cloud computing to counter tough economic times are offered more certainty of significant investment and large scale resourcing availability to the local market thanks to Vodacom Business. Preparing for the increase in uptake in...
Secure roaming at R59/day or 8c/Mb
execMobile has announced new secure, low-cost solutions for leisure travellers. "We are thrilled to offer solutions based on our customers' feedback," says founder and MD of execMobile, Craig Lowe. "Poor quality static hotel or coffee shop WiFi simply does not meet...
Lenovo takes on $87bn data centre market
Lenovo has intensified its focus on the $87-billion data centre technology market by unveiling an expanded arsenal of IT solutions, including next-generation software defined storage, enterprise networking offerings and capabilities, the latest high-performance...
Kaspersky protects against targeting attacks
Kaspersky Lab has announced a major expansion of its enterprise security product portfolio with a solution designed to detect targeted attacks. The Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform is a premium solution based on the most advanced technology to date that draws...
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