Sluggish demand pushes Absa PMI back to contractionary territory
After the encouraging uptick in July, the seasonally adjusted PMI dropped significantly by 8.8 points to 43.6 in August, down from 52.4 in July. This decline underscores the challenges the sector faces amid ongoing political uncertainty, high but slowing inflation,...
Intel raises the bar for AI performance on Xeon processors
In the latest MLCommons AI performance benchmark suite – MLPerf Inference v4.1 - Intel submitted results across six MLPerf benchmarks for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors and, for the first time, its Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). Intel Xeon 6...
AI, analytics key to developing African hydrocarbons
Africa has had massive oil and gas discoveries in recent years – including the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim offshore Senegal and Mauritania, the Luiperd and Brulpadda in South Africa and the Rovuma Basin discoveries offshore Mozambique, among others – but development has...
Betelgeuse slowly recovers after blowing its top
Analysing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew its top in 2019, losing a substantial part of its visible surface and producing a gigantic...
New challenges as we move beyond digitalisation
While digital transformation has meant the increasing prominence of digital technologies in traditional industries, there will be decreasing prominence of digital technologies in the next era. This is the word from the Gartner Research Board, which adds this isn't a...
Intel extends protection to physical threats
Intel improves software reliability by building silicon enhancements realised through logic inside the processor. Now, the company has described a new technique to complement existing software mitigations for fault injection attacks. Tunable Replica Circuit (TRC) -...
DeathStalker unleashes VileRat on crypto, forex companies
Kaspersky researchers have been tracking attack campaigns from the DeathStalker hack-for-hire group since 2018. Recent analysis shows that the threat actor updated its evasive VileRat toolset to attack cryptocurrency and foreign currency exchange companies in...
Unemployed youth graduates to digitise Home Affairs records
The Department of Home Affairs plans to digitalise its records and will recruit 10 000 unemployed youth graduates to work on the project. Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says the department has more than 350-million civic paper records relating to birth,...
SA agritech helps to drive food prices down
Food costs are soaring as a result of the war in Ukraine, interest rate hikes, fuel increases, and changed weather patterns. Now a KZN-based startup is focusing on driving down the cost of food by cutting out middlemen and reducing transport costs while increasing...
Employee experience drives biometrics spend
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), European companies will spend $3,3-billion in biometrics in 2022, growing 20% versus last year. Spending in biometrics will expand in the years to come and reach $6,1-billion by 2026, at an 18% five-year CAGR,...
More News Today
Camargue helps businesses with POPI
In 2014, 974-million company records were lost or stolen in South Africa alone – which is 31 records every second and according to Camargue Underwriting Managers, MD, Mitch Marescia, with more than a third of South Africa’s companies experiencing data breaches, it is...
Virgin Australia, Sabre expand agreement
Sabre Corporation has announced Virgin Australia has renewed its technology agreement and widened the scope of its relationship with Sabre. The renewal agreement expands the airlines' SabreSonic agreement. SabreSonic is an integrated suite of applications that...
Time is running out to get agile in Africa
The Jo'burg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University is gearing up for its third annual Agile Africa conference on 24 to 26 August 2015. With headline speakers including renowned Agile expert, Kent Beck, ThoughtWorks CTO, Dr Rebecca Parsons, and...
BlackBerry launches BES12 Version 12.2
When BlackBerry launched BES12, we introduced our most complete, simplified and secure mobility management platform yet. Since then, our teams have been hard at work developing enhancements such as government and security advancements for BlackBerry 10 devices and an...
Electronic banking channels optimise savings
So you are rigorous with your budgeting and you already have a sensible savings plan? With July being National Savings Month in South Africa, it might be the right time to consider taking the next step in your savings journey. It’s time to ensure that you are moving...
Five considerations for virgin ERP customers
There comes a time for many growing companies when the accounting system is no longer up to the task. When looking at implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, the owners of these organisations are faced with a confusing marketplace, in an...
Mimecast extends spear phishing protection
Mimecast has announced two new measures designed to protect against spear-phishing. Attachment Protect and user awareness enhancements reduce the threat from malware-laden attachments, and help IT teams improve employee security awareness. They join Mimecast Targeted...
Transforming data from expense to asset
CIOs today are increasingly being asked to extract greater value from the data residing within the organisation – transforming information into a valuable asset that the organisation can use as the springboard to future success. This issue was explored in depth by...
MDM invites participation in survey
Data management is a vast discipline, covering everything from established roles such as database administration, to emerging platforms such as data governance and big data analytics. For large organisations, data management bills can run in to the hundreds of...
Smart retail spaces make business sense
Intelligent technologies have become increasingly common, both within the business and consumer space, says Paul Divall, MD – Intelligent Technologies at Jasco. Utilising such ‘smart’ technologies results in reduced costs, improved efficiencies and enhanced...
NATURAL Application Senior Developer at Accenture
CAREER LEVEL: 9Location: Centurion, South AfricaPURPOSE OF JOB:To design and maintain simple to moderate to complex programs and to provide relevant support to operational support and support service teams as required.Main Responsibilities/Tasks:To efficiently code,...
Mainframe Application Developer at Accenture
Main Responsibilities/Tasks:To efficiently code, debug and unit test simple to moderate to complex programs. This includes new development and / or modifications to existing programs on a Supply Chain system;Compile designs for simple to moderate to complex...
C# Developer / Team Lead (LW)
Experience Requirements:A minimum of 8 years of experience as a C# Software Developer. At least 3 years of experience in leading and mentoring a team of junior to intermediate developers.Technical Skills:Programming Languages: Proficient in C# and .Net Core. Strong...
Front End Developer – Gauteng Sandown
Leading Corporate and Investment Bank seeks an experienced FRONT END DEVELOPER - ANGULARNB: this is a 4 day per week in the office role with the offices based in Sandton Very strong UI development skills (Minimum 5 years' experience)Solid experience in the following...
NATURAL Application Senior Developer at Accenture – Gauteng Midrand
CAREER LEVEL: 9Location: Centurion, South AfricaPURPOSE OF JOB:To design and maintain simple to moderate to complex programs and to provide relevant support to operational support and support service teams as required.Main Responsibilities/Tasks:To efficiently code,...
Mainframe Application Developer at Accenture – Gauteng Midrand
Main Responsibilities/Tasks:To efficiently code, debug and unit test simple to moderate to complex programs. This includes new development and / or modifications to existing programs on a Supply Chain system;Compile designs for simple to moderate to complex...
C# Developer / Team Lead (LW) – Gauteng Johannesburg
Experience Requirements:A minimum of 8 years of experience as a C# Software Developer. At least 3 years of experience in leading and mentoring a team of junior to intermediate developers.Technical Skills:Programming Languages: Proficient in C# and .Net Core. Strong...
Senior Java Developer
Leading Corporate and Investment Bank seeks an experienced FULL STACK DEVELOPER - JAVA & ANGULARNB: this is a 4 day per week in the office role with the offices based in Sandton Min of 5-10 years java experience.Strong back end and front end development...
Solutions Architect – Mining Industry (Networks, Servers & Storage) at Accenture
Accenture is looking for a qualified and experienced South Africa based Solutions Architect for Networks, Servers and Storage, to join the team and work with a range of Mining clients to deliver solution and service excellence. The successful candidate is required to...
Mid Software Developer at Accenture
Are you ready to be part of a transformational journey that will reshape the digital landscape of Africa? A leading Pan-African telecommunications company is launching a groundbreaking Software Engineering Centre of Excellence (COE); dedicated to building...
View more career listings on our Careers Section