Zoom undergoes GenAI-driven renaissance
At its annual Zoomtopia 2024 showcase event, Zoom unveiled a wide array of new and upcoming platform enhancements powered by generative AI (GenAI) – compelling for their sheer volume, breadth, and substance in continuing its renaissance, according to GlobalData. Gregg...
A cybersecurity roadmap for the future
A multi-pronged approach to cybersecurity is essential, including strong authentication, regular data backups, security awareness and collaborative threat sharing across organisations to secure the increasingly vulnerable digital landscape. Dr Jaya Baloo, chief...
CEOs are prepared to weather expected recession
Kathy Gibson reports - CEOs in South Africa and ready and prepared to weather geopolitical and economic challenges. This is one of the headline findings from, KPMG 2022 CEO Outlook Survey, presented in partnership with Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), which...
Africa still prefers cash when it comes to payments
Cash remains the most dominant payment type on the African continent with debit cards coming in as a close second, according to new data from PwC's Open Banking and Payments Survey. The survey is a biannual study of consumers' payment and open banking preferences, and...
Intel debuts realtime deepfake detector
Intel has developed FakeCatcher, a technology that can detect fake videos with a 96% accuracy rate, returning results in milliseconds. "Deepfake videos are everywhere now. You have probably already seen them; videos of celebrities doing or saying things they never...
5G, fintech, security drive African tech trends
Trending topics in the African technology and telecommunications space include the rollout of 5G, the dire need for telecommunications infrastructure and access to broadband spectrum, the steady rise of the fintech sector despite global economic turbulence, the...
M-commerce takes centre stage for Black Friday
Despite a tough economic year and flagging consumer confidence, it appears that many South Africans are still planning to make the most of the upcoming Black Friday sales days, with 85% of South Africans aged 18 to 36 planning to shop from their phones. This is...
Mteto Nyati takes a stake in BSG
Mteto Nyati has taken a significant stake in BSG, (Business Systems Group), a 25-year old South African business and technology consulting company. Now owning 40% of BSG, Nyati will work closely with the BSG executive team to scale BSG's impact and grow market share....
Paper and print are still relevant
Contrary to popular belief, society is far from being paperless. Despite the ubiquity of electronic communication, a recent survey conducted by the Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA) found that 82% of respondents still use many forms of paper in...
Nvidia Omniverse opens portals for scientists to explore the universe
Nvidia has announced that Nvidia Omniverse -- an open computing platform for building and operating metaverse applications -- now connects to leading scientific computing visualisation software and supports new batch-rendering workloads on systems powered by Nvidia...
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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
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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
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Lorge celebrates three decades
2016 is a significant year for Lorge, marking 30 years in the business and still going strong. Brothers, Mike and Tony Lorge, who saw a need for business and accounting software solutions, founded the company in 1986. Over the years, the company has grown at a steady...
Code advice for tech startups
South African tech entrepreneurs that are struggling with getting their software systems (mobile, web or IoT) to a global standard, have the opportunity to sit down with a senior engineer or UX designer at Jozihub's App.Clinic sessions. App.Clinic @ Jozihub is a...
Met Office chooses cloud for weather services
The UK's Met Office has turned to CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) to underpin the next generation of innovative, mobile and cloud-based weather services. The UK's national weather service will use CA API Management to securely share its data with business partners,...
Snr Network Support Engineer (Level 3)
Role: Snr Network Support Engineer (Level 3)Location: Illovo, Johannesburg A leading ISP is looking for an experienced Snr Network Support Engineer to join their dynamic team. It is a busy and exciting working environment and they offer lots of growth and development....
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Eliciting & Analysing requirements & Documenting them through user stories and customer journeys as part of the BSS programDocumenting non-functional requirementsRequirements management and communication, including arranging sessions, workshops, ideation...
BI Developer (Hybrid) at EnableSA (Pty) Ltd – Gauteng Pretoria
As an integral member of our delivery team, the BI Developer will:Build and maintain Power BI dashboards/reports.Build and maintain Share Point sites and lists for data capturing.Monitor Power BI Online workspace to maintain scheduled refreshes and user access.Convert...
Business Analyst – Gauteng Sandton
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Snr Network Support Engineer (Level 3) – Gauteng Johannesburg
Role: Snr Network Support Engineer (Level 3)Location: Illovo, Johannesburg A leading ISP is looking for an experienced Snr Network Support Engineer to join their dynamic team. It is a busy and exciting working environment and they offer lots of growth and development....
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (Fixed Term Contract Implementation Science Wits RHI)
Main purpose of the job:The M&E Technical Officer will be responsible for supporting the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting functions of the Wits RHI programme, with emphasis on ensuring data quality to improve data integrity.This role involves implementing...
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