Economic conditions weigh on new vehicle sales
New vehicle sales declined 14,2% year-on-year in May as consumers and business played their final waiting card in search of political stability. "While the politics will play out during June, the new vehicle market will hopefully be able to display more positivity...
Homeowners signal cautious optimism
Absa's Homeowners Sentiment Index for the first quarter of 2024 reveals an uplift in confidence in the property market, with overall sentiment among respondents surveyed climbing to 82% as optimism begins to remerge. In the survey of 1 149 respondents, the number of...
Using AI, Mayflower Autonomous Ship concludes trans-Atlantic journey
In a voyage lasting 40 days and conquering approximately 3 500 unmanned miles at sea, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship arrived in North America in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 5, 2022. Following two years of design, construction and AI model training, the Mayflower...
Half of finance AI projects destined to be delayed or cancelled
Half of current finance artificial intelligence (AI) deployments will be either delayed or cancelled by 2024, while the use of business process outsourcing (BPO) for AI will rise from 6% to 40% within two years, according to Gartner. Chief financial officers (CFOs)...
Semiconductor revenue to grow but supply chains still constrained
According to the Worldwide Semiconductor Technology and Supply Chain Intelligence service from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to reach $661-billion in 2022, a 13,7% year-over-year growth rate following strong 2021...
Malware dwell time is increasing
There has been a 36% increase in malware dwell time, with a median intruder dwell time of 15 days in 2021 versus 11 days in 2020, according to the Active Adversary Playbook 2022, which details attacker behaviours that Sophos' Rapid Response team saw in the wild in...
Ransomware victims continue to pay up multiple times
A massive 80% of companies that paid a ransom demand were hit again, with nearly 50% paying a second ransom and nearly 10% paying up a third time. These are among the findings of a Cybereason Ransomware True Cost to Business Study, the company's second annual...
How security leaders can prepare for change
As cybersecurity strategy, leadership and technologies continue to evolve, Gartner has highlighted three steps security leaders can take now to prepare for the emerging threat landscape over the next 10 years. "The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is a...
Intel outlines security stance
At the RSA Conference this week, Intel outlined how it is investing in people, processes and products to deliver security without sacrificing performance. As the cyber and network security landscapes continue to grow and evolve, Intel's goal is to stay one step ahead...
IBM plans Randori acquisition
IBM has announced it plans to acquire Randori, an attack surface management (ASM) and offensive cybersecurity provider. Randori helps clients continuously identify external facing assets, both on-premise or in the cloud, that are visible to attackers - and prioritize...
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Varsity Sports adds more punch to sports app
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UC market in SA experiences major growth
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Growing revenue, lowering churn in telecoms
Telecom service providers across the globe are faced with challenging market conditions, coupled with declining revenue. High subscriber churn rates as a result of network congestion, increased competition from Over-The-Top (OTT) services, and a shift towards...
Quocirca names Ricoh market leader again
Ricoh has maintained a leadership position for the fourth consecutive year in the managed print services (MPS) market, according to the Managed Print Services Landscape 2015 report from analyst firm Quocirca. Ricoh now actively manages millions of devices on a global...
Security in the digital age
The quickening pace of change in business today is forcing companies to transform themselves digitally, in new and innovative ways, says Kim Andersen, account CTO at T-Systems South Africa. It’s requiring them to shake off traditional, legacy-based approaches to IT,...
IT Anywhere, Tarsus Cloud On Demand partner
Local IT services company IT Anywhere has selected Tarsus Cloud On Demand as its partner to help it better roll out and deploy end-to-end cloud services and solutions to its customers. An early adopter of Cloud On Demand’s cloud-based services, IT Anywhere works with...
TT-Network completes network sharing project
TT-Network (TTN), the joint venture between TeliaSonera and Telenor, has completed the final phase of its ground-breaking Single RAN network sharing project, for which Nokia Networks was the sole radio and services provider. This is the first time ever that a network...
Emergent design key for agile businesses
The third annual Agile Africa conference on 24 to 26 August 2015 hosted by the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University will feature a session on emergent design and how developers design with a smaller code base in agile. JCSE director,...
Aspect Software acquires LinguaSys
Aspect Software, a leading award-winning cloud provider of fully-integrated consumer engagement, workforce optimisation, and back-office solutions, has announced another key acquisition continuing the company’s successful business transformation to a leading cloud...
Nigeria gets PCI DSS-certified data centre
MainOne’s premier Tier III Data Center, MDX-I, has become the first Tier III Data Center operator in Nigeria to achieve both Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and ISO 27001:2013 certifications. This announcement was made by the company Chief...
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