ISPA calls for SMME access to spectrum
The Department of Communications and Digital Communications should be commended for its “Next Generation Radio Frequency Spectrum Policy for Economic Development” issued in May 2024. However, it remains unclear exactly how SMMEs will get access to high-demand...
Seacom explores SMME collaboration
Seacom has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Africa’s ICT SMME Chamber to explore collaborative efforts aimed at empowering small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the telecommunications sector. Under the terms of the MoU, Seacom and the...
AI-equipped drones study dolphins on the edge of extinction
Small in size and with a distinctive, rounded dorsal fin, Māui dolphins are one of the rarest and most threatened dolphins in the sea, with a known population of just 54. Decades of fishing practices, such as gillnetting off the west coast of New Zealand in the South...
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...
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A new approach to backup and recovery
Deloitte made two significant technology predictions for 2015. The first was the idea of the re-enterprisation of IT, which suggests that there is a shift in the way enterprises are adopting technology, says Demetri Petropoulos, head of business development at Global...
Software AG wins IoT Evolution award
Software AG has announced that the Digital Business Platform has received a 2015 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award from IoT Evolution magazine, the leading publication covering IoT technologies. Software AG’s Digital Business Platform helps users respond to...
New Presence Technology offering from Jasco
Jasco Enterprise, a proud partner of Presence Technology, announces the availability of the new Presence IVR Software module (Interactive Voice Response) designed to improve customer contact. One of the features of the Presence IVR software module includes a “strategy...
Foster Melliar, iSolve Learning merge
iSolve Business Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Partner, has acquired Foster Melliar, a pillar in the South African IT Best Practice Community. iSolve’s Learning Solutions division has merged with Foster Melliar. Both companies are subsidiaries of the Morvest Group. The...
BPS launches skills development programme
A new programme launched by Bytes People Solutions ( to assist with skills development in the North West province’s Bojanala Platinum District Municipality is a welcome initiative, particularly considering the skills shortages being experienced in many sectors....
Huawei wins at 5G World Summit 2015
Huawei was awarded Biggest Contribution to 5G Development at 5G World Summit 2015 for its continuous innovation and industry contributions to 5G particularly for the new air interface technologies. With the rapid development of mobile broadband and the Internet of...
Visual comms breaks free of the boardroom
High-quality videoconferencing is leaving the boardroom and hitting smart devices everywhere – from your smartphone and up. And the smart telecoms providers are getting in on the act. It all begins with a little thing called WebRTC, says Rob Lith, business development...
It’s all about the who and the woo
“Did you know that it costs more to gain a new customer than to have a devoted one? So, why then are budgets, in general, spent more on attaining new customers’ attention than offering attention to its current customers?” asks Ebrahim Dinat, COO at contact centre...
Increase vigilance to avoid being hacked
The term “heist” conjures up images of slick professionals outsmarting and conning banks, government agencies, casinos, organisations and individuals, before robbing them and getting away with wads of cash. The film industry has, in general, established the genre as...
Mobile a shortcut to open access broadband
Government’s recent announcement that owners of fibre optic networks - including itself - would be compelled to share capacity with other Internet service providers shows the high expectations it has of the digital world. Broadband access is linked to economic...
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Analyse Business requirements.Capture user stories and validate with customer.Provide Onboarding User training.Attend Daily Standups.Attend UAT sessions if needed.Continuous discovery (e.g. continuous improvement analysis).Develop training material (user guides,...
Senior Automation Tester at Accenture
AUTOMATION TESTER 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...
Adobe Experience Developer at Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, song, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all...
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ENVIRONMENT:A radio astronomy company is seeking a mid-Controls Software Engineer to manage Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software and systems. This role is integral to the Computing and Software team, collaborating within the Observation Monitoring and Control...
Senior Automation Tester at Accenture – Western Cape Cape Town
AUTOMATION TESTER 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...
Adobe Experience Developer at Accenture – Western Cape Cape Town
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, song, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all...
Mid – Controls Software Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:A radio astronomy company is seeking a mid-Controls Software Engineer to manage Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software and systems. This role is integral to the Computing and Software team, collaborating within the Observation Monitoring and Control...
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Leading Corporate and Investment Bank seeks an experienced DATA ENGINEERNB: this is a 4 day per week in the office role with the offices based in Sandton Terradata PowerBI MSSQL Hive Ab Initio (a bonus) Data API's Will be required to build data warehouse components on...
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