Government departments owe SABC R30m
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Tech helps to combat modern slavery
Intel, enterprise technology and services firm R3 and nonprofit Hope for Justice are working together to build a pilot application that enables organisations combatting modern slavery to confidently share sensitive data related to individual cases with the enhanced...
RDP attacks, hacktivism show decline
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More innovative ransomware, credential theft emerge
The cyberthreat landscape has reached a new level of commercialisation and convenience for would-be attackers, with nearly all barriers to entry for committing cybercrime removed through the expansion of cybercrime-as-a-service. This is according to Sophos’s 2023...
Digital twin of global weather conditions could improve forecasts
Lockheed Martin and Nvidia have announced a collaboration to build a Earth Observations digital twin powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that will provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with an efficient and centralised approach to...
Chat apps are taking over customer communications
Chat apps such as WhatsApp are becoming crucial channels for customer communications, demonstrating the growing importance of conversational experiences. Research from Infobip shows an 80% and 62% increase in WhatsApp and rich communication services (RCS) interactions...
VR tech finds a second home in rehab
Penumbra has launched its REAL y-Series hands- and tether-free VR rehabilitation platform to address both upper and lower extremities with a full body avatar. James Spencer, data scientist at GlobalData, comments: “Virtual reality (VR) has always looked like an answer...
Cryptojacking malware soars
After recent turbulence in the crypto market, Atlas VPN has found that new modifications of cryptojacking software - used in the act of hijacking a computer and using it to mine digital assets against the user's will - grew 3,8-times in Q3 2022. As many as 153 000 new...
European households embrace smart electricity meters
More than 56% of the electricity customers in EU27+3 had a smart meter at the end of 2022. The market is set for robust growth in the coming years with a total of 106-million smart electricity meters forecasted to be deployed across the region during 2022–2027. There...
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Linksys adds clustering to wireless access points
Linksys will include clustering, at no additional cost, across its entire portfolio of wireless access points (APs) for small businesses. Clustering enables easy management of core AP functionality without the cost and complexity of cloud-based controllers or...
Veeam gives back more with ProPartner
Veeam Software has announced an expansion to its EMEA ProPartner Program. Veeam ProPartner Program enables partners to take advantage of the business opportunities presented by the needs of the Always-On Enterprise. It has gained more than 4,300 EMEA partners in 2015,...
Mobile technology brings hope to HIV children
ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist HIV company, announced jointly with its global partners, Vodafone Foundation, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, ELMA Philanthropies and the US government through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the launch of the...
One way you can drive more sales
The digital shopping experience has transformed how we engage with brands and make decisions. However, our natural instinct to turn to others for recommendations still prevails. Consumers might ask friends or family, but increasingly they check out online communities...
PureCloud takes customer engagement up a notch
Interactive Intelligence Group has launched a new customer engagement cloud service for businesses throughout South Africa. The PureCloud Engage architecture, along with its advanced functionality, fast deployment, and simple month to month subscription terms offer...
Issues around WhatsApp end-to-end encryption
There is and always has been an inherent tension between an individual's right to data privacy and wider security concerns, writes Aleks Gostev, chief security expert: GReAT at Kaspersky Lab. This is unlikely to change, although the priority may shift depending on the...
RS Components in global distribution deal with Intel
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of global distributor for engineers Electrocomponents, has announced the signing of a global agreement with Intel for the distribution of a range of the company's computing and embedded development products. The agreement enables...
Acumatica helps service providers grow
Customer satisfaction drives profitability, especially in today's highly competitive services industry. To stay ahead of the competition, businesses need an integrated system that will provide a powerful 360-degree view of customers' activities. Stephen Corrigan, MD...
IoT demands innovative applications
2016 looks set to be the year that the Internet of Things (IoT) hits the big time, writes Neil Sholay, head of Oracle Digital, EMEA. We've already seen a range of new IoT services come to market. Take Samsung's smart fridge, which launched at the Consumer Electronics...
In-memory computing unearths hidden ERP value
The advent of enterprise-grade cloud solutions, combined with the precipitous drop in costs for volatile memory storage, has propelled in-memory computing to the forefront of many CIO's agendas, writes Alan Collins, portfolio manager: cross-industry business solution...
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