Insurance providers, customers disagree on GenAI use
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Energy-efficient AI tackles sea pollution
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Cybercriminals, hackers the worst culprits disrupting SA organisations
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AI software tipped to grow 50% faster than overall software market
Forrester forecasts that AI software will grow 50% faster than the overall software market over the next two years, with an annual growth rate of 18%. The spend on AI software will double from $33-billion in 2021 to $64-billion in 2025 due to an accelerated adoption...
IBM institutes legal action against Micro Focus
IBM has filed suit against Micro Focus, accusing the software company of illegally copying and reverse engineering IBM software in violation of copyright law. In the legal action filed in US District Court in the Southern District of New York, IBM asserts that these...
Global IoT revenues up in 2022
In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the most important technologies out there, providing seamless communication between people, processes, and things. The surging need for wireless networking technologies continues to drive the entire...
Mobile operators will lose big to OTT business messaging apps
Mobile operators will lose out to OTT business messaging providers such as Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp to the tune of $2,5-billion next year – an increase of 20% over 2022. A new Juniper Research study report found that promotional messages will account for 30% of...
Social media sites top for tracking user data
The average website has 48 trackers – and social media websites have 160 trackers on average, according to research from NordVPN. Health websites have an average of 46 trackers per website, and digital media sites come into third place with an average of 28 trackers....
Black Friday report: banking credentials theft doubled in 2022
Kaspersky researchers report that the number of attacks via banking Trojans stealing payment data doubled in 2022 when compared with 2021, reaching almost 20-million attacks. This year, in addition to this active campaign of banking credentials theft, cybercriminals...
Webb reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies. While Webb and other space telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer, previously have revealed isolated ingredients of this broiling...
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Brace yourselves for business banking charges
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Are we seeing the rise of the phablet?
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Software AG improves revenue on transformation
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Gumtree pilots password-free software
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Protect your big phish from whaling attacks
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IndigoCube, Checkmarx partner to improve security
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Silver Banana goes to town with Xerox
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Customer functionality enriches TFG online experience
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Dell’s Pandora gaming laptop available now
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Connected chiller offers smart monitoring
Johnson Controls has launched a Connected Chiller offering that adds remote monitoring and analysis tools into its warranty and service offerings. The offering addresses a key customer challenge, giving organisations with chillers greater control, improving...
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