Smart satellite services deliver better healthcare
Q-KON has installed a Eutelsat OneWeb LEO system at the Platinum Health Modikwa Clinic – the first time that a LEO satellite service has been used in the healthcare industry in South Africa. Situated at the Modikwa Mine in Mpumalanga near Burgersfort, Modikwa Clinic...
Public-private action could bridge cyber protection gap
A new whitepaper from Marsh McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group highlights the critical need for greater public sector involvement to strengthen societal resilience in the event a catastrophic cyber event occurs. The whitepaper, “Closing the cyber risk protection...
Equiano cable lands in Cape Town
Openserve has facilitated the landing of the biggest undersea cable that runs along the west coast of Africa. The Google Equiano undersea cable system arrived at the Openserve cable station facility in Melkbosstrand, Cape Town on Monday (8 August 2022). Openserve's...
Celebrities, influencers could be the face of NFT and cryptocurrency scams
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency are still making waves for all the wrong reasons - scams, cons, and phishes are giving these digitally-driven technologies a bad reputation. Anna Collard, senior vice-president: content strategy and evangelist at KnowBe4...
Livestreaming by US viewers passes cable for the first time
According to data from StockApps.com, streaming accounted for 34,8% of US viewers' TV screen time in July 2022. Cable and broadcast (also known as traditional linear TV) accounted for 34,4% and 21,6% of total viewing time, respectively. This is the first time...
NASA IDs potential landing spots on the Moon
As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under Artemis, the agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole. Each region contains multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the first of the Artemis missions...
SA leaders believe AI is key in the fight against climate change
Climate change will have significant impacts on environmental, social, political, and economic systems around the world - and particularly in Africa and South Africa, which are disproportionately affected by the risks posed by climate change. Climate change...
ADC to expand SA data centres
Africa Data Centres has drawn down the first tranche of $83-million out of the $300-million strategic investment from the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved in 2021. The initial tranche is being applied towards expanding ADC's data centres...
Europe set to grow security spend 10,8% this year
Despite the changing geopolitical situation and consequent inflationary pressure, European IT security spending will continue to rise at a sustained pace, with expected growth of 10,8% year on year (YoY) in 2022, according to International Data Corporation (IDC)....
Google tracks more private data than other tech firms
Out of the five major digital firms - Google, Twitter, Apple, Amazon and Facebook - Google harvests the most data on its users. According to an analysis by StockApps.com, the company collects 39 data points for each user. Spokeperson Edith Reads comments: "Most people...
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Tintri announces support for OpenStack
South Africa's leading value-added distributor, Networks Unlimited, has announced that Tintri, its networking product partner, now offers support for OpenStack environments on Tintri’s VMstore storage platform. Support is now available for Tintri’s OpenStack Juno...
Schneider releases home control solution
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, has announced significant updates to its Wiser Home Control, a truly integrated control solution that interlinks electrical, multimedia and telecommunications in a single home automation platform. Wiser Home Control allows owners to control all appliances in the household and customise settings to adapt to their living patterns through a user-friendly interface for a more eco-friendly and stylish way of life.
DEVELOP releases ineo 4020
Document workflows are frequently less efficient in small businesses, home offices or small to mid-sized workgroups. The new multifunctional monochrome all-rounder from DEVELOP South Africa, the ineo 4020, has been purposely designed to meet the need for greater...
CRS Technologies launches Knowledge Hub
Human capital management (HCM) and HR services specialist CRS Technologies has centralised its expertise and technology to develop a 24/7 Knowledge Hub. This resource offers learning interventions to support clients with skills development and training. According to...
Secure habits aids cloud computing
The move toward cloud computing services is gaining traction across many industries due to rapidly growing volumes of data that require storage, says Sumash Singh, country manager at CommVault. For the security sector, surveillance footage is the biggest demand on...
DCC offers Dell PowerEdge server range
The new Dell PowerEdge range of servers available from distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) offers enhanced performance, maximum operational efficiency and greater versatility. Available in 1U and 2U rack server, rackable tower server and blade server models,...
DVT opens SA east coast operations
Specialist software and services company DVT has expanded its operations to South Africa’s east coast. The company has opened an office in Umhlanga Ridge with a team of developers working on software development and related projects for local and international...
Making M2M SIM management SME-friendly
Using SIM cards have become a way of life for the digital citizens of today. With our reliance on smartphones and tablets, these tiny components are integral to staying connected. For small to medium enterprises where cost efficiencies are essential, managing SIMs...
Reputational damage a key business risk
Nothing feeds the news cycle like a company scandal, and with social media and citizen reporting on the rise, serious blows to a company’s reputation and market value can spread in nano-seconds. The likes of BP, Goldman Sachs, Toyota, Nestle, Domino’s Pizza, and locally and more recently Eskom, Capitec, KFC, the Estate Agency Affairs Board and Lonmin are among a host of brands that have taken a reputational hammering in the court of public opinion.
Speaker from Facebook at Agile Africa 2015
The third annual Agile Africa will feature Facebook’s Kent Beck. Taking place at the Protea Hotel, Parktonian from 24 – 26 August 2015, this year’s line-up, according to hosts Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE), includes some of the software industry’s...
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