Young gamers fall victim to cybercriminals
The number of unique users targeted by cybercriminals using popular children’s games as a lure surged by 30% in the first six months of 2024 compared to H2 2023, according to Kaspersky experts. Researchers analysed gaming risks for young players and discovered that...
SASE growth slows as economic pressures weigh
The worldwide Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market posted 10% year-over-year (Y/Y) revenue growth in 2Q 2024, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. This is the lowest growth rate since Dell’Oro Group started tracking SASE in 1Q 2019. Economic pressures,...
GDP declines on KZN floods, loadshedding
After two consecutive quarters of positive growth, real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 0,7% in the second quarter of 2022 (Q2: 2022). The devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal and load shedding contributed to the decline, weakening an already fragile national...
Fintech market resilient after a banner year in 2021
Global fintech investment declined from $111,2-billion in the second half of 2021(H221) to $107,8-billion in H122 but remained remarkably resilient compared to historical trends given the challenges affecting the broader investment market, including geopolitical...
Tiny laser will help to find water on the Moon
Finding water on the Moon could be easier with a Goddard technology that uses an effect called quantum tunneling to generate a high-powered terahertz laser, filling a gap in existing laser technology. Locating water and other resources is a NASA priority crucial to...
Inaugural Africa Education Medal goes to Prof Phakeng
University of Cape Town (UCT) vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has been named the winner of the inaugural Africa Education Medal, launched this year by T4 Education and HP in collaboration with Intel and Microsoft. Professor Phakeng was chosen from among...
Study shows Chinese cities are leading in carbon reduction
Thirty-eight Chinese cities have reduced their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) despite growing economies and populations for at least five years - defined as proactively peaked cities, a new study reveals. A further 21 cities have cut CO2 emissions as...
Intel debuts socketed SoC processors for the edge
Intel has announced the availability of its 12th Gen Intel CoreTM SoC processors for IoT Edge. Representing a new lineup of purpose-built edge products optimized for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, this first-of-its-kind socketed system-on-chip (SoC) delivers...
Retail trends for 2022 and beyond
Gears switched at the beginning of 2022 as we entered a new phase in a retail eco-system that was still massaging aches and pains and playing catch up with new consumer behavioural patterns evolving as - "new ways of doing things", "adaptability" and "having an...
Celebs take the plunge for Special Olympic National Games
The annual Special Olympics South Africa Polar Plunge is back, now in its sixth year, will see more than 150 celebs and well-known personalities taking the plunge into icy water to help raise funds for the 2022 Special Olympics South Africa National Games taking place...
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Lenovo has unveiled the beginning of a new family of mobile workstation innovations, the ThinkPad P50 and P70, at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference and Exhibition. These new ThinkPad P Series systems are the best-performing and most reliable mobile workstations available...
City Property enhances reporting with Decision Inc.
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The unexpected costs of moving to the cloud
A few years ago, companies thought the cloud might help save on costs. No doubt everyone recalls the plethora of articles with titles such as: "How to save time and money in the cloud" or "Cloud Computing can generate massive savings", says Phil Curran, director of...
Banking on biometrics
If your brain occasionally goes blank when the ATM machine requests your PIN code, or worse, someone else has withdrawn cash from your account, help is just a fingertip away. Nick Perkins, divisional director of Identity Management at Bytes Systems Integration (Bytes...
E-mail key for PoPI compliance
The much talked about Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act is now imminent, and organisations need to realise that the question is no longer around whether it will be implemented, but what they should do to gear up for it, says Simeon Tassev, director of...
Reaping the benefits of home networking
A home network goes beyond a bunch of devices with wires running between them. Properly implemented, it is a system that provides its users with unique capabilities, in terms of connectivity and sharing. Networks allow computers, and their users, to be connected, and...
Runtastic joins Adidas Group
Runtastic has joined the Adidas group. The company's CEO Florian Gschwandtner confirmed the news last week, stating that it was time to take the next step. Runtastic had already been a part of the Axel-Springer company (owning 50,1% since October 2013) which has been...
Businesses boom with backup revolution
The evolution of technology used to perform mission-critical data backups and support disaster recovery means that any sized organisation can be effectively protected, despite increasing data volumes and the demands of digitisation. Specialists in data protection...
Data centre security grows online democracy
Another day, another headline about government hacking of sensitive data. This time it’s allegations that Chinese authorities hacked the Office of Personnel Management network, accessing information belonging to millions of US federal employees in what has to be seen...
Mustek appointed as SanDisk distributor
SanDisk Corporation is expanding its reach into South Africa and countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with the appointment of Mustek as an official distributor of SanDisk’s range of storage and memory devices and solutions. Mustek is one of...
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