Temu app racks up 735m downloads
Since its launch in September 2022, the Chinese shopping app Temu has been gaining share in the global ecommerce market, successfully competing with industry giants like Amazon, eBay, and Shein. With its aggressive pricing and discounts, wide product selection, and...
Slump continues – but AR/VR headsets set to soar
The decline in worldwide shipments of augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets continued during the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24) as volumes contracted 28,1% YoY to 1,1-million units, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual...
AMD joins PyTorch foundation as founding member
AMD has announced it is joining the newly created PyTorch Foundation as a founding member. The foundation, which will be part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, will drive adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tooling by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of...
Global Internet bandwidth nudges 1Pbps mark
Global Internet bandwidth rose by 28% in 2022, now standing at 997Tbps, with a four-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29%. TeleGeography forecasts that the Pbps era will soon be underway, as its latest Global Internet Geography research tracks the continued...
Empowering women could help with cybersecurity skills crisis
South Africa is facing a continued shortage of critical skills. This shines a relentless light on the importance of empowering young people so they can connect with careers and futures that inspire them. In the cybersecurity space, this focus has never been more...
IBM LinuxONE servers help reduce energy consumption
IBM has unveiled the next generation of its LinuxONE server, a highly scalable Linux and Kubernetes-based platform, designed to deliver scalability to support thousands of workloads in the footprint of a single system. IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 features capabilities that...
60 years since the JF Kennedy Moonshot speech
It’s 60 years since US President John Kennedy made his famous “Moonshot” speech. On 12 September 1962, Kennedy addressed a crowd of 35 000 people at Rice University in Houston, recommitting the US to the Moon landing goal he proposed to Congress in May 1961. He...
Children in the driving seat of an EV future
Children are already driving the EV revolution - despite not yet being able to get behind the wheel themselves. A new global survey by ABB E-Mobility reveals that children not only educate their parents on environmental issues and admonish them for un-eco-friendly...
Banking-as-a-service to hit mainstream adoption by 2024
Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) will hit mainstream adoption within two years, according to the latest Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Banking Transformation. Gartner predicts that 30% of banks with greater than $1-billion in assets will launch BaaS for new revenue by the...
Retail comes under ransomware fire
The retail industry had the second highest rate of ransomware attacks last year. A new Sophos sectoral survey report, “The State of Ransomware in Retail 2022”, found that 77% of retail organisations suffered an attack - a 75% increase from 2020. This is also 11% more...
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‘Go and study or go to jail’
Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa has laid down the gauntlet on the issue of fake qualifications, writes Jenny Reid, MD of iFacts. During an update to Parliament on government's efforts to improve the efficiency of key state-owned enterprises, Ramaphosa said that...
Ericsson expedites IoT adoption
A globe-spanning network for the Internet of Things (IoT) has been built over the past 20 years that provides the coverage, security and reliability needed to connect us and bring intelligence to the things that surround us. Cellular networks already cover 90% of the...
Wireless operators increase services, not price
Wireless network operators are under increasing pressure to provide more capacity, coverage and quality - all without increasing end-user prices. This is an international phenomenon. The key to managing this successfully in 2015 is efficiency, said Derick Roberts, CEO...
Escrow service makes online shopping safer
E-commerce stats from Statista.com show that 40% of worldwide internet users have at some time or another bought products or goods online via desktop, mobile, tablet or other online devices. This amounts to more than 1-billion online buyers, and this number is...
XFX has landed in South Africa
Johannesburg-based TVR Computers has concluded an official authorised distributorship agreement with XFX. The agreement will extend TVR the rights to distribute XFX range of products in the region of South Africa. XFX, is a division of PINE Technology Holdings. Pine,...
Municipal surveillance ensures citizens’ safety
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Make sure secure estates really are secure
The primary lure of housing estates is one of safety and security, with the assumption that surrounding yourself with high walls and the latest technology leads to you and your family being safer than ever before. But this could be a misconception. According to some...
More flash storage from Oracle
Oracle has expanded its flash storage portfolio with the announcement of an all-flash model of its Oracle FS1 Flash Storage System. Available now, the new Oracle All Flash FS1 Storage System delivers superior flash performance, capacity scaling, and flash provisioning...
Western Union extends services to Swaziland
The Western Union Company has announced the launch of its money transfer services in Swaziland. Western Union now serves more than 50 countries and territories on the African continent. Western Union in collaboration with Interchange, a leading foreign exchange...
NCR and Bytes debut cloud-based ATMs
Bytes Managed Solutions (Bytes MS), through its exclusive South African partnership with NCR, has introduced the biggest change to the way an ATM operates since the self-service banking channel was invented nearly 50 years ago. The two companies have launched Kalpana...
BI Data Analyst I – Remote Remote
Role:To support and maintain the data warehouse in line with the data model; metadata repository and to provide business intelligence analysis through performing strategic and operational support.Job ResponsibilitiesStructure data into compliance standards by adhering...
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Junior Full Stack Developer (PHP, Laravel MVC, MySQL) – Western Cape Cape Town
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