Apple’s $1,5bn Globalstar deal set to change direct-to-device satellite game
Apple plans to invest $1,1-billion in satellite communications company Globalstar alongside a further $400-million for a 20% equity stake in the business. Emma Mohr-McClune, chief analyst: technology at GlobalData, offers her view: “According to GlobalData, this...
Blockchain once again the darling of venture capitalists
After a significant slowdown last year, blockchain has again become an attractive sector for VCs in 2024, with the total value of deals outperforming 2023 figures two months before the end of the year. AltIndex.com says blockchain companies raised $10-billion in...
$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...
What will the future of work look like?
With global attention divided between many disruptors, the future of work is fraught with many unknowns, from where and how work will be done to how economic pressures will change job opportunities to how social, skills, and climate concerns will have a broad impact....
Smartphones set to become irrelevant in a 6G world
The launch of 6G will spur a further shift towards mixed reality devices and make smartphones irrelevant in the next fifteen years. According to GlobalData research, we are already seeing a shift towards mixed reality such as Meta's Quest Pro virtual reality (VR)...
SA sales reps spend just 27% of their time selling
Sales organisations are optimising technology for peak efficiency, addressing customers' increasing demands, and maximising rep productivity to drive success now. This is among the insights from Salesforce's fifth edition of its State of the Sales report that polled...
Industrial control systems to come under fire in 2023
Kaspersky's ICS CERT researchers shared their predictions for the next years' industrial control system-focused developments and risks that organisations should prepare for in 2023. These predictions include increased attack surface due to digitisation, activities of...
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Fortinet Security Fabric for pervasive security
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Cloud computing accelerates in SA
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ElevenPaths adds Check Point solutions
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Veeam expands storage integration
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Developer internships for puzzle-solvers
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IDC names Ricoh a Managed Workflow Services leader
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Aeroflot pioneers new Sabre analytics technology
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DXS International embarks on service improvement
DXS International are providers of clinical decision support solutions to the healthcare sector through the proprietary DXS Point of Care platform, with offices in the United Kingdom as well as South Africa. This platform integrates with patient record systems and...
SanDisk reinvents flash drive for iPhone and iPad
SanDisk has launched the next-generation iXpand Flash Drive, a mobile storage device designed to help people quickly and easily free up space on their iPhone and iPad with up to 128Gb of additional capacity. The iXpand Flash Drive features a new, modern design that...
Intermediate SQL Developer – Remote Remote
Responsibilities/Tasks:Develop complex T-SQL queries, Stored Procedures and Triggers.Assist in the design of the relational database architecture for new development projects.Develop new / alter existing SQL objects based off a set of requirements.Troubleshoot SQL...
Microsoft Power Platform Developer – Gauteng Pretoria CBD
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