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

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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...

Google increases investment in African AI skills

Google has announced it will provide $5,8-million in Google.org funding to support foundational AI and cybersecurity training this year across Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa. According to Google president: EMEA Matt Brittin, the funding will support organisations...

Magnets are reshaping rare earth supply, demand, recovery

The EU, US, Japan, and numerous other regions identify rare earth elements as critical materials due to growing supply risks and their increasing economic importance in the green transition. Although critical rare earth elements have diverse technology applications –...

AI software tipped to grow 50% faster than overall software market

Forrester forecasts that AI software will grow 50% faster than the overall software market over the next two years, with an annual growth rate of 18%. The spend on AI software will double from $33-billion in 2021 to $64-billion in 2025 due to an accelerated adoption...

IBM institutes legal action against Micro Focus

IBM has filed suit against Micro Focus, accusing the software company of illegally copying and reverse engineering IBM software in violation of copyright law. In the legal action filed in US District Court in the Southern District of New York, IBM asserts that these...

Global IoT revenues up in 2022

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the most important technologies out there, providing seamless communication between people, processes, and things. The surging need for wireless networking technologies continues to drive the entire...

Mobile operators will lose big to OTT business messaging apps

Mobile operators will lose out to OTT business messaging providers such as Messenger, WeChat and WhatsApp to the tune of $2,5-billion next year – an increase of 20% over 2022. A new Juniper Research study report found that promotional messages will account for 30% of...

Social media sites top for tracking user data

The average website has 48 trackers – and social media websites have 160 trackers on average, according to research from NordVPN. Health websites have an average of 46 trackers per website, and digital media sites come into third place with an average of 28 trackers....

Black Friday report: banking credentials theft doubled in 2022

Kaspersky researchers report that the number of attacks via banking Trojans stealing payment data doubled in 2022 when compared with 2021, reaching almost 20-million attacks. This year, in addition to this active campaign of banking credentials theft, cybercriminals...

Webb reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies. While Webb and other space telescopes, including NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer, previously have revealed isolated ingredients of this broiling...

Black Friday sales growth tipped to be less buoyant

As retailers ramp up their November shopping deals and discounts, this year's Black Friday sales is expected to show some growth particularly among consumers seeking a bang for their buck under the mounting economic pressures. "Last year's Black Friday point-of-sale...

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Entrepreneurs use innovation to create jobs

Following a record number of applications for the FNB Business Innovation Awards 2016, supported by Endeavor, a positive response has been received from entrepreneurs eager to tap into innovation to scale and grow their businesses to the next level, while creating...

Comstor debuts Cisco’s HyperFlex

Comstor will be offering the HyperFlex hyper-converged solution built on Cisco UCS technology. Comstor is a global Cisco distributor, leading the way in hyper-converged distribution. The company will bring HyperFlex to market through its LEAP Data Centre Partner...

FBN Insurance Nigeria deploys Premia suite

3i Infotech has announced the successful implementation of its Premia Insurance Suite at FBN Insurance, Nigeria, one of the leading life and general insurers in the West African country. 3i Infotech and FBN Insurance successfully deployed Premia Life solutions in...

Smile adds services in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda

Smile Telecoms, which owns and operates 4G LTE mobile broadband networks in the 800MHz band in Nigeria, and in the 800MHz and 2,6GHz bands in Tanzania and Uganda, has announced that all its operating markets customers would receive two first-to-market services -...

Bytes Universal Systems, Teradata host Innovation Forum

Bytes Universal Systems (BUS), the exclusive southern African distributor for global analytic data platforms, marketing and analytic applications company Teradata, hosted an Innovation Forum in Johannesburg, titled "Data changes everything". "The forum provided an...

Yahsat explores African partnerships

UAE-based satellite operator Yahsat has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore the possibility of new joint opportunities with existing partner, IEC Telecom Group (IEC Telecom) in Africa. The agreement comes ahead of Yahsat taking delivery of its third...

How businesses can transition to the digital era

The digital era is well and truly upon us, but it seems that many businesses are struggling to adapt to this change. Many businesses are failing to understand these new technologies and the positive changes they can bring to the table, writes Martin Walshaw, senior...

Make technology work for you

No one buys technology just for the sake of technology. If that were the case, we might all have pockets full of silicon chips instead of smartphones. To have value, technology has to help people achieve more. It has to make life easier, writes Neil Cameron, GM of...

How cloud can help you run a better business

SME owners today are busy, tech-savvy and under enormous pressure to drive profits and revenues - that's why they need software ready to take advantage of the latest technology trends. It is these entrepreneurs who are the drivers of prosperity and it is their...

New security platform from Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks has introduced a new security platform for advanced threat protection. Arbor Network Spectrum is designed specifically for security teams, from the most senior responder to novice analysts, to search the entire network to uncover, investigate and prove...

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