Digital twins market heads for $150bn by 2030
With advancements in Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics, the global market for digital twins, spanning software and services, is projected to exceed $150-billion in 2030, says GlobalData. Digital twins are becoming...
InfoSec professionals question relevance of formal education
Amid acute shortages of cybersecurity professionals, acting information security (InfoSec) experts are questioning the relevance of the formal education they received, Kaspersky's new global research shows. The survey revealed that one in two cybersecurity...
IBM adds technical skills to improve co-creation
IBM has set up client engineering teams to help customers in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region to co-create solutions with technologies like hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and DevOps. The new division will be housed in four locations in MEA, including...
A clean sweep for Nvidia in Oscar nominations
For the 14th consecutive year, each Academy Award nominee for the Best Visual Effects used NVidia technologies. The 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony, taking place next Sunday (March 27), has five nominees in the running: Dune Free Guy No Time to Die Shang-Chi and...
Companies need to become more resilient against risk
Pandemic outbreak is the biggest concern for companies in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2022. This risk receives the top ranking after Covid-19 led to large-scale business closures and supply chain disruption...
Governments beyond Ukraine under cyber attack
Check Point Research (CPR) provides an update on cyber attacks observed throughout the Russia-Ukraine target. In the first three days of Russi-Ukraine combat, cyber attacks on Ukraine's government and military sector increased by 196%. Since then, cyber attacks on...
Big banks under pressure to differentiate as they reach technology parity
The Customer Satisfaction gap between South Africa's banks is closing rapidly, with the digital acceleration brought about by the pandemic being a significant equaliser. Banks are under significant pressure to reinvent their customer value propositions and...
SA sees surge in contactless payments
South African consumers and businesses are increasingly using smart devices to make contactless tap-to-pay payments. According to FNB, its retail and commercial clients processed in excess of R4,2-billion in contactless payments via smart devices in 2021, compared to...
Russians turn to VPNs as restrictions mount
The demand for VPNs by Russian users continues to snowball due to new restrictions imposed by the government, according to AtlasVPN findings. The new wave of VPN installs originating from Russia began on 11 March 12022, when the Russian government's communication...
Why genomics and biodiversity are important for Africa
The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) has published a position paper in the journal Nature highlighting the goals, priorities, and roadmap of the impressive Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of plants, animals, fungi, and protists that are endemic to the...
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Enermatics leverages MTN’s M2M platform
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Sasria gains additional functionality
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TaxTim heads into Namibia with PwC
South African-born digital tax assistant TaxTim began its African expansion this week, working together with audit, tax and advisory firm PwC to enter Namibia. Since raising seed funding from Google in 2011, TaxTim has helped over 1.3 million South Africans make tax...
Workflow essential to IoT success
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Sage launches Sage Foundation
Sage has launched the Sage Foundation which sets the standard for Corporate Compassionate Capitalism around the world. Each of Sage’s 14 000 employees will be able to contribute five days per year in work time to volunteer with any non-profit organisation they elect...
Eliminate junk data to boost data centres
Junk data is like a disease eating away at the heart of the modern data centre, says Veeam Southern Africa region manager Warren Olivier: “It’s an invisible tumour chewing up resources, and can cause everything from poor performance to sudden failure of whole storage...
Huawei wins Total Telecom award
Huawei, a leading global ICT solutions provider, was awarded Vendor of the Year at the first ever Africa Awards, organised by Total Telecom. The Africa Awards is initiated by Total telecom, a daily telecommunications news portal for global communications...
Bullying: from schoolyard to smartphone
The phenomenon of bullying is nothing new - many adults can recall being bullied in their childhood. While "traditional" bullying can involve physical and verbal abuse in the playground, our growing reliance on the Internet and connected devices means bullying no...
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