Euclid space telescope marks a milestone in cosmic history

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found - and two of these giant and dazzling galaxy cores, powered by gargantuan black holes, are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history. They shone with...

Mission on to catch and lift a sinking satellite

NASA NASA is attempting to stop a space observatory from dropping to earth. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is NASA’s astrophysics multitool, capable of quickly observing a wide range of cosmic objects in visible, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray light. All...

Steady growth puts digital trade firmly on the map

New experimental estimates show that digital trade is increasing significantly across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2023, underscoring the importance of digital technologies in shaping international trade. Up to now, much of the...

Geopolitics creates inflationary pressures for SA

As the Middle East moves towards a fragile lull in hostilities, the economic shock caused by the conflict – supply chains perturbation, inflation etc - is already spreading to the global economy with oil-importing economies such as South Africa particularly exposed to...

IBM, Intel collaborate to drive AI innovation

IBM and Intel are collaborating to deploy Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud by early next year to help more cost effectively scale enterprise AI and drive innovation underpinned with security and resiliency. This collaboration will also enable...

GenAI a key theme in companies’ discussions

Companies across various sectors are incorporating next-generation AI capabilities into their solutions, with GenAI standing out as a primary focus of technological innovation, reveals the Company Filings Analytics Database of research group GlobalData. The company’s...

Employers look overseas for skills as brain drain continues

The number of South African employers reporting they are recruiting ICT skills overseas has increased dramatically in the past year - up from 38% to over 50%. This is a key finding in the 2022 JCSE-IITPSA ICT Skills Survey - the 12th to carried out by Wits...

27m South Africans are not credit active

More than 27-million consumers were considered to be either credit unserved or underserved in South Africa at the end of March 2022. However, according to the global TransUnion study, "Empowering Credit Inclusion: A Deeper Perspective on Credit Underserved and...

Rectron honours top partners

Rectron awarded its top-performing partners yesterday (7 October). The awards ceremony concluded the Rectron Innovation Day held in Johannesburg, where reseller partners learnt about how Rectron has restructured itself to meeting changing market demands, and met its...

Load shedding, petrol, interest rates hit SME confidence

South African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) confidence levels took a dip in second quarter of 2022. This is according to the recently released Q2 2022 SME Confidence Index conducted by specialist SME financier, Business Partners, which reveals that SME...

Poor home security threatens corporate networks

Unwitting insider threats are becoming an increasingly common part of the attack chain for general consumers. Even the smallest of data leaks can lead to huge ramifications further up the business chain and poor cybersecurity at home could prove to a weak link for...

Despite headwinds, IT resellers remain confident

IT resellers across much of Europe and beyond are largely positive about the future despite strengthening economic headwinds, according to the latest ChannelWatch report from Context. The annual Context report polled 5 308 B2B and B2C resellers of all sizes and across...

Smart home device growth slows

Consumer buying continues to cool across the globe as macroeconomic issues persist. The slowdown in buying is expected to result in flat growth for smart home device shipments in 2022. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart...

Big investment needed to prevent more energy poverty

Energy is key to the growth and prosperity of any modern economy, but it is estimated that nearly 1-billion Africans lack access to clean, sustainable energy. The shortage of electricity in many African countries is approximately equivalent to 1% of the global...

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Ericsson software accelerates Volvo in-car experience

Ericsson has announced more details around its plans to power the ultimate connectivity experience for self-driving cars. As autonomous driving becomes a reality with more cars hitting the road this year, attention is turning to spotty network coverage along highways...

Vox Telecom is Alcatel-Lucent SMB partner of the year

Vox Telecom, an end-to-end technology provider, has won the award for SMB (Server Message Block) Partner of the year in Southern Europe and Middle East Africa at the annual Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) Partner Day. The ALE event is dedicated to strengthening and...

VMware demonstrates momentum for vCloud NFV

At Mobile World Congress 2016, VMware showcased the company's momentum in helping communications service providers (CSPs) adopt network functions virtualisation (NFV) to deliver the unified, hybrid Telco Cloud. The company has experienced a significant increase in...

Huawei P8 Lite wins at 2016 Innovation Awards

The Huawei P8 Lite has received an award for this year's Product of the Year at the annual Innovation Awards held in Johannesburg on 24 February. The P8 Lite won in the 'Value Smartphones Category' for 2016. "We are very excited about the award and have no doubt that...

Vox Telecom launches Kaspersky Endpoint Security for business

Vox Telecom has launched Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business to provide endpoint protection for all virtual, physical and mobile devices within its SME and corporate customers. "Technology advances, and evolution of the Internet leaves businesses more exposed to...

Streaming Netflix locally just got a whole lot easier

South Africans can now take movie nights at home to a new level thanks to Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa's vendor partner Linksys and the streaming service Netflix. Linksys has made smooth streaming and sharing with fast connection speeds a local reality with its...

Profiling your customers through big data

In this era of big data, there are increasing opportunities for collection, processing and analysis of vast and complex data sets, which can reveal insight for organisations into their customers; insight such as demography, behaviour, transaction trends, economics...

Risks in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Martin Walshaw, senior engineer at F5 Networks, looks at some of the unintended consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that we might be heading towards. You haven't been feeling well this week. You make an appointment with your doctor, who's actually a...

Technology enhances healthcare, one step at a time

A multitude of new technologies have arrived on the scene in the past few years - offering the promise of revolutionising the healthcare industry and enhancing patient care in many of different ways, writes T-Systems SA's Johann Joubert. Many healthcare providers -...

E-commerce for small business owners

E-commerce is a tool that every business can take advantage of - from a single entrepreneur running a small business by himself to an enterprise with a larger number of employees. This is because it now encompasses a spectrum of payment systems; from paying via an...

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