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...

Transport costs keep millions away from work and education

As South Africans face sharply higher fuel prices from yesterday, new Ipsos research shows that transport affordability is already affecting access to work and education for a significant number of people. The nationally representative findings, from the Ipsos...

ID-based attacks rife as phishing, authentication abuse on the rise

Phishing accounted for more than half of cybersecurity incident response engagements in the second quarter of 2026, while authentication abuse was observed in 65% of engagements, according to the latest Incident Response Trends report from Cisco Talos. The findings...

Tech sales under the lash as consumers curb spending

South Africa’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market is proving resilient so far in 2026, although retailers and brands in the tech and durables (T&D) sector are experiencing a number of challenges. This is according to NielsenIQ (NIQ) South Africa, which has...

Seacom offers colocation, IP transit with Equinix

Seacom now offers colocation and IP transit services via the JN1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre owned and operated by Equinix in Johannesburg. The new data centre, which came into service in July 2024 and was officially opened on 23 October, offers...

Tech leaders to triple adoption of AIOps

According to Forrester’s 2025 technology and security predictions, 75% of technology decision-makers will see their technical debt rise to a moderate or high level of severity by 2026. This will be due to the rapid development of AI solutions, which are adding...

AWS leverages Sapphire Rapids to up performance

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the private preview of Amazon EC2 R7iz instances powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors - codenamed Sapphire Rapids. R7iz instances deliver an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.9 gigahertz and AWS claim up to 20%...

Beware phishing scams, fake domains, malware attacks this Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday emerged in 2005 as a continuation of the long weekend shopping starting on Black Friday. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the US, was initially intended for sales and shopping in physical stores, and Cyber Monday for shopping online stores and...

How to ensure a hack-free festive season

While businesses slow down for the traditional holiday period, cybercriminals ramp up their operations taking full advantage of the skeletal staff and increased online activity. Last year, 66% of South African organisations across all industries reported downtime...

On Black Friday, SA shoppers splurged on consumer goods

Mobile payments led the way this Black Friday, with 70% of total transactions driving sales, versus 30% on desktop, according to leading payment gateway PayFast. The average basket size was R1 255, slightly higher than 2021, which recorded an average of R1 208 per...

Smart grids could drive big savings

The cost savings from smart grid deployments will exceed $125-billion globally in 2027, increasing from just over $33-billion in 2022. This 279% growth will be driven by rising energy prices, with smart grid technologies playing a critical role in increasing network...

The state of confidential computing

In today’s data-driven ecosystem, Intel has called for greater adoption of confidential computing as a standard cloud model. Today, data is often encrypted at rest, in storage and in transit across the network, but not while in use in the processor and memory....

Majority of merchants say PayPal an avenue for fraud

Customers like to use PayPal because they only need to remember one login instead of their credit card number, expiration date, security code, and billing address. However, while PayPal is one of the most widely-used payment methods, it has become a top target for...

Bitcoin investors poised for the rate hike unwind

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies will continue to hold their current price ranges until the end of the year, before the ‘crypto winter’ thaws in the spring of 2023 when inflation will have peaked and central banks unwind their rate hikes. This is the prediction of Nigel...

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Remember governance in the rush to next-gen platforms

South African enterprises are actively looking to next generation application and analytics platforms, but they need to be aware that the platforms alone cannot assure quality data and effective data governance, warns Johann van der Walt, director of operations at...

BI: the sky is the limit in 2016

Business intelligence (BI) has never been a hotter topic. Over the last few years, 'big data' from multiple new data sources has driven game changing analytic use cases, and innovation has changed the face of BI as we know it. According to Markets and Markets, the BI...

Support for sponsorship rights holders, investors, suppliers

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Peering forum will be held in Tanzania

The Internet Society will bring its annual Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) to Tanzania for the first time. The organisation has partnered with the Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association (TISPA) to hold the seventh annual AfPIF in the...

MBA Group buys Ricoh inkjets in £5-m deal

MBA Group has bought three Ricoh Pro VC60000 continuous, colour, digital inkjet presses as part of a £5-million strategic investment programme. MBA has also expanded its IT infrastructure and staff to support its ethos of choice for clients with over a third of its...

WASPA elects 2016 management committee

South Africa's Wireless Application Service Providers' Association (WASPA) has elected the Management Committee for 2016 that will represent the interests of South Africa's wireless application service providers (WASPs) while also working towards the Association's...

Africa’s power sector seeks sustainable growth drivers

Africa's leading power generation and distribution stakeholders are set to converge in Sandton later this year, for talks on creating power for sustainable growth in Africa. With effective power generation and distribution having been identified as a critical...

Citrix simplifies secure delivery of browser-based apps

Browser-based applications have become a dominant force in the enterprise, from custom-built web apps to software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps purchased outside of the IT process by business managers who want to empower their employees with the latest tools. This surge of...

Q-KON SA secures AudioCodes Platinum status

Q-KON South Africa, a telecommunications services company focused on unified communications, voice over IP (VoIP), SIP and Skype for Business, is the first firm in Africa to be officially certified as an AudioCodes Platinum distributor. AudioCodes produces VoIP,...

CA is named as a most ethical company

CA Technologies has been recognised by the Ethisphere Institute as a 2016 World's Most Ethical Company. This year marks the tenth anniversary of Ethisphere and the World's Most Ethical Companies designation which recognises those companies that align principle with...

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ENVIRONMENT:DESIGN, develop & implement cutting-edge software solutions as your coding talents as a Junior Software Engineer is sought by a fast-growing FinTech company in Joburg to join its team. Your duties will range from the development of entirely new...

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