Green electrons raised from private wind energy project
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) has celebrated a milestone in South Africa’s renewable energy journey. Alongside its members - Reatile, AIIM, ACED, Sasol, and Rand Merchant Bank – it has witnessed the successful delivery of wind electrons from the...
Public warned about social media housing scams
The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) warns the public to be vigilant of relentless housing scams on social media platforms. Scammers falsely claim to be department employees and offer assistance with government-subsidised housing applications, targeting...
Kaspersky supports Interpol’s African operation
Kaspersky has contributed to Interpol's Africa Cyber Surge Operation (ACSO) by sharing data, comprising of indicators of compromise (IoCs) on various cyberthreats and types of cybercriminal activity targeting African countries. This evidence provided the grounds for a...
What will cybersecurity look like next year?
In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users' data was constantly on hackers' radar. Marijus Briedis, chief technical officer of NordVPN, comments: "Next year will not be any easier when it comes to...
Digital shopping a clear trend this Black Friday
Even the challenges of increasing inflation and the prospects of continuing interest rate hikes could not dampen the enthusiasm of South African consumers for the extensive deals laid on by stores across the country over Black Friday weekend. That's according to...
Retail sees 126% growth on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
The retail, leisure and entertainment and travel industries were the big online winners over the last four days. This is the news from South African-based digital payment gateway Peach Payments, sharing details of transactions processed on its platform between Black...
Cyberthreats rose 17% in SA during Black Friday
A recently released study using aggregated data from Surfshark Antivirus shows that every 50th scan finds at least one threat. According to Surfshark's research, there was a noticeable rise of 16,94% of cyberthreats in South Africa a week leading up to Black Friday....
SA’s online threats spiked in October
The November Edition of Trellix's Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing for South Africa has shown a dip from around 2,6-million total files detected in August, to 2,4-million in September, before shooting back up, past the 2,7-million mark, in October. This top line...
Sustainable options to plug the energy deficit
In the wake of COP27, the 11th and final South Africa Economic Outlook report of 2022 from PwC focuses on opportunities and actions to improve power supply and energy sustainability in the country. Earlier this month, some PwC Africa leaders attended COP27 in Egypt...
Climate change: A pandemic we must collectively address now
During this year's COP27 in Egypt, world leaders have grappled over what must be done to curb global warming. Seven years ago, world leaders signed an international treaty to limit global warming to well below 2°C but, nonetheless, efforts remain insufficient to limit...
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BT Security Consulting helps in testing times
BT has announced the launch of Cyber Roadmap Consulting, a new consultancy programme designed to give large organisations a better understanding of their own cyber security risks and implement measures to mitigate these. The new service leverages highly skilled...
Integr8, Extreme, Duxbury launch networking-on-demand
In a ground-breaking move, three leading local IT companies have banded together to launch South Africa's first pay-per-use, fully-managed, corporate networking solution which will be targeted at developing markets throughout Africa. Dubbed EasyLAN, the solution has...
Edwardian Hotels London offers Aspect’s virtual host
Edwardian Hotels London has launched a new 'virtual host' service to its hotel guests, designed by Aspect Software. The artificially intelligent service, called 'Edward', is designed to deliver exceptional experiences for guests who prefer digital brand interaction....
Finalists for the African Banker Awards are …
The shortlist for the 10th edition of the African Banker Awards has been released. This year's shortlist is dominated by some of the larger banking groups from North, East, South and West Africa. The winners will be revealed at a gala dinner during the African Bank...
Gemalto offers audio services over LTE
Gemalto is addressing Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity by bringing high-quality voice capabilities over LTE to industrial applications using single-mode LTE Cat1. At an IoT World pre-event in Santa Clara, the company demonstrated its world-first Cinterion Voice...
Hello Group selected as Start-up Challenge semi-finalist
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Total communication protection with Totemo
Communication Genetics has announced the availability of Totemomail and Totemodata, two business-to-business, business-to-consumer and platform-independent solutions designed to protect information on the move, between internal and external sources and between...
Use rejection it to serve you
Every accomplished entrepreneur, success book or business seminar out there can tell you that rejection or failure is part of the process of success and a stepping stone towards achieving your goals. Quinton Douman, MD of 212 Business Consulting, agrees and says that...
KEMP360 streamlines application delivery
KEMP Technologies has announced the release of KEMP360, designed to help customers simplify and streamline application delivery management across all hosting platforms from the data center and private cloud to IaaS, PaaS, hybrid and public clouds, including Microsoft...
Mobile payments have revolutionised business
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