Cyber resilience the foundation for Africa’s next phase of digital growth

Building strong cyber resilience will be the key to sustaining the current remarkable growth of Africa’s digital economy, according to a new white paper from Mastercard. The report – Africa’s Digital Defence Race - highlights that between 2016 and 2025, mobile money...

Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...

Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

Call for Africa to collaborate on digital development

Kathy Gibson reports - African countries need to collaborate to ensure that the continent’s young population is connected and able to participate in the digital economy. This is the word from John Omo, secretary-general of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU),...

Clean, reliable power key to Africa’s digital economy

Kathy Gibson reports – South Africa and Africa must drive forward to create a digitally-inclusive environment that creates opportunities for entrepreneurs and lifts people out of poverty. This is the word from Solly Malatsi, minister of communications and digital...

November crypto winners and losers

The world`s Top 10 cryptocurrencies have seen their prices tumble in the last two months following a negative trend from a historically low September, with most of the top digital coins losing between 7% and 10% in value in the last 30 days. Only two cryptos have seen...

Huawei extends market reach with commercial business unit

Huawei has enjoyed rapid growth in the ICT industry and today has launched the Huawei Commercial Business Unit “Over the past seven years, Huawei focused on named accounts,” says Suzette Lloyd, senior channel operations manager. “The company has identified a big...

Critical corporate data available cheap on the dark web

Kathy Gibson reports from Jordan - The dark web is more than a marketplace for criminal products or services - it can hold real dangers for corporates. Yuliya Novikova, head of security services analysis, explains that players on the dark web offer services from...

The robots are coming … and people are wary of job losses

Kathy Gibson reports from Jordan - Automation helps people to perform their tasks in a quicker and easier way and has been a key part of human endeavour for millennia. For example, ancient civilisations automated the delivery of water by building aqueducts, mechanised...

Musk’s Twitter overhaul drives users to alternative platforms

Analysis of Google search data reveals that searches for Mastodon social have surged over 14 times greater than typical search levels in the US in November as Elon Musk began implementing bans on Twitter impersonators and hit out at Mastodon social in a now-deleted...

Top 10 predictions for the future of digital innovation

The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated how digital technology and innovation can deliver resiliency, revenue, and opportunity to the enterprise in the face of crisis, says IDC. Now, as we face additional global challenges such as war, inflation, the threat of recession,...

Cyberattackers raise the bar

Kathy Gibson reports from Jordan - Companies in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region can expect to come under attack from innovative new directions in 2023. This is the word from Maher Yamout, senior security researcher at Kaspersky GReAT, who says the...

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Rapid transformation awaits technology channel in 2016

Against a backdrop of structural change and technological progress, the technology infrastructure channel is about to go through a period of rapid transformation. Philippe Fosse, vice-president: EMEA channels for EMC, gives his predictions for just what 2016 has in...

Desktop analytics set to soar in 2016

Desktop analytics is booming. This is according to Ebrahim Dinat, chief operating officer at South African contact centre solutions provider, Ocular Technologies. "So much so that it will be a game changer in 2016," he adds. Saddletree Research estimates that in 2015,...

Konica Minolta SA aims to solve content management woes

Unstructured document processes can have a hugely negative impact on business and, ultimately, cost companies unnecessary time and money. In fact, Gartner estimates that knowledge workers spend up to 50% of their time looking for specific content items and that each...

SD-WAN enables enterprise movement towards the cloud

Gone is the time where IT assets were limited to a handful of data centres. Gone is the time where users and applications were all bound by one unified MPLS network. Gone is the time where the enterprise perimeter was limited to a few centralized Internet breakouts...

Kaspersky Lab grew faster than the market

International Data Corporation (IDC) has examined the consumer and corporate endpoint security market and issued a report based on the data for 2014. According to this, Kaspersky Lab is growing faster than the market as a whole: worldwide revenues for all endpoint...

What’s next for disaster recovery?

When it comes to modern data protection, not all data should be treated the same way. Long gone are the days of just dumping a bunch of files onto a tape overnight and sending it to the vault, wites Mark Bentkower, CISSP, director of systems engineering: ASEAN at...

Hisense comes out at CES 2016

Hisense took the stage at CES 2016 to announce the company's largest foray into the U.S market to date, and to demonstrate innovations in display technology across the television, connected home and medical industries. According to IHS data for Q1-Q3 2015, Hisense has...

ASUS shows off lifestyle line-up

ASUS showcased its latest line-up of lifestyle innovations at 2016 International CES(r) in Las Vegas. Featured products include MB169C+, the world's first 15.6-inch portable companion monitor that uses a single USB Type-C connection for both power and video...

More gaming releases at CES 2016

ASUS showcases its latest line-up of gaming motherboards, displays, desktops, laptops, and peripherals at the 2016 International CES last week. Making their debut at CES were three brand-new gaming motherboards with Aura RGB lighting for more flexible color and...

Lab quality prints anytime, anywhere

Take advantage of Canon photo printing quality wherever, whenever with the portable, compact Canon SELPHY CP1000 compact photo printer from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). With this printer, consumers, small businesses, retailers to home users can get...

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Integration Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg

At iOCO, we're dedicated to driving innovation, fostering business agility, and ensuring digital resilience for our clients. We're currently looking for a skilled and experienced Integration Developer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part...

Software Quality Engineer – Gauteng Braamfontein

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BI Business Analyst at Datonomy Solutions – Western Cape Pinelands

The team are in search of an intermediate business intelligence business analyst to:• Analyse business or legislative requirements, data and problems in order to design and implement sustainable data solutions.• Ensure optimisation, reduction of risk and data...

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This position reports to the Engineering Manager and is remote Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Work closely with stakeholders, Data Engineers and BI Analysts to turn data into critical information andknowledge that can be used to make sound business...

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ENVIRONMENT:Fill the dual role of a Software Developer/Data Engineer sought by a leader in Conversational Analytics where you will partner with the Dev team to design, develop & maintain web applications. You will also be expected to develop Power BI embedded...

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Our client, in the Agri Sector, is currently looking to employ a young and dynamic Technical Application Specialist to their team based in Cape Town. Mechatronic / Mechanical Engineering degree essential.A wonderful career opportunity awaits you.Requirements:Degree in...

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