IT channel pivots to add value as AI takes off

Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape - Artificial intelligence (AI) may be at the peak of the hype cycle, but this doesn’t detract from the value that the technology will bring to the industry. That’s the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle, who...

Network to the fore as agentic AI adoption takes off

In the era of agentic AI, the network is becoming the critical foundation for trust, security and the seamless operating models through which people and AI can build the future. However, as organisations move quickly to gain an advantage from AI, a significant gap has...

Labour disputes emerge as SA’s top legal concern

Labour matters rank highest among the everyday legal questions that South Africans are asking. This is according to data aggregated by My AI Lawyer, which found that more than a third (37%) of the queries processed on My AI Lawyer in the first six months of 2026 is...

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...

Paratus rolls out Starlink in Eswatini

Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider, Paratus Group has launched Paratus Eswatini through a joint venture with Mbabane based IT and ISP company, Real Image. The new company has been created to provide and install Starlink services initially. ...

Vodacom partners with Circular Energy to reduce e-waste

As technology proliferates today’s society, e-waste has become one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world – and South Africa is no exception. Looking to combat this burgeoning challenge, Vodacom SA has partnered with non-profit producer responsibility...

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...

New date set for analogue switch-off

The Broadcast Digital Migration is almost complete and a new analogue switch-off date, and end of dual illumination period, has been set for 31 March 2023. In making the announcement of her intention to switch off the analogue signal on that date, Minister of...

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Engen centralises branch offices with Riverbed

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M2M benefits for transport, logistics industries

The transport and logistics industry could improve their operation systems should they consider entering the telemetry market and embracing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology, writes Greg Hatfield, GM: products and solutions at MTN Business South Africa. The steady...

African development think tank launched

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and its development partners have launched the Africa Project Developers Initiative (APDI). APDI is a think tank and network to promote and enable project development in Africa. It creates a platform that fosters continuous dialogue...

Understanding the legalities of overtime in SA

Overtime is one of the most contentious issues in labour law, with many employers expecting their employees to be at their beck and call all hours of the day, writes Madelein Taljaard, development manager at Sage HR & Payroll. Many workers, meanwhile, resent being...

Big data integration drives better ROI

As 2016 rolls on, a number of factors and trends that will gain traction in the security sector, shaping the progression of the security sector, writes Neil Cameron, GM of Johnson Controls Building Efficiency. These include increased demand for integration, big data...

Fujitsu research identifies code changes

Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of technology to quickly identify changed locations in source code, such as added functions, to enable timely development using large scale open source software. Open source software (OSS) can be easily used by anyone...

What SDDC means for your business

Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks, talks about software-defined everything. Shifting a lot of the management, and therefore the intelligence, to the software makes a lot of sense and it's where the industry is heading. Software-defined networking is...

Smart tech for a better lifestyle

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