Strong ethical culture not enough to stop non-compliance
Most compliance leaders tend to focus on building an ethical culture in their organisations to improve employee behaviour, but it has a limited impact on addressing uncertainty about how to be compliant, according to a new survey by Gartner. There are three primary...
The importance of ethical practice in IT
Amid an increased focus on the importance of ethical practice in IT among members of the professional ICT community, the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has released a short video to illustrate just how important ethics in ICT...
IBM adds technical skills to improve co-creation
IBM has set up client engineering teams to help customers in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region to co-create solutions with technologies like hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and DevOps. The new division will be housed in four locations in MEA, including...
A clean sweep for Nvidia in Oscar nominations
For the 14th consecutive year, each Academy Award nominee for the Best Visual Effects used NVidia technologies. The 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony, taking place next Sunday (March 27), has five nominees in the running: Dune Free Guy No Time to Die Shang-Chi and...
Companies need to become more resilient against risk
Pandemic outbreak is the biggest concern for companies in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer 2022. This risk receives the top ranking after Covid-19 led to large-scale business closures and supply chain disruption...
Governments beyond Ukraine under cyber attack
Check Point Research (CPR) provides an update on cyber attacks observed throughout the Russia-Ukraine target. In the first three days of Russi-Ukraine combat, cyber attacks on Ukraine's government and military sector increased by 196%. Since then, cyber attacks on...
Big banks under pressure to differentiate as they reach technology parity
The Customer Satisfaction gap between South Africa's banks is closing rapidly, with the digital acceleration brought about by the pandemic being a significant equaliser. Banks are under significant pressure to reinvent their customer value propositions and...
SA sees surge in contactless payments
South African consumers and businesses are increasingly using smart devices to make contactless tap-to-pay payments. According to FNB, its retail and commercial clients processed in excess of R4,2-billion in contactless payments via smart devices in 2021, compared to...
Russians turn to VPNs as restrictions mount
The demand for VPNs by Russian users continues to snowball due to new restrictions imposed by the government, according to AtlasVPN findings. The new wave of VPN installs originating from Russia began on 11 March 12022, when the Russian government's communication...
Why genomics and biodiversity are important for Africa
The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) has published a position paper in the journal Nature highlighting the goals, priorities, and roadmap of the impressive Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of plants, animals, fungi, and protists that are endemic to the...
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New programmes from Digital Skills Academy
Digital Skills Academy, a leading international organisation delivering high-level cloud-based ICT Degrees and courses for students, post-graduate students, ICT professionals, marketeers and business, has opened in Africa. The Academy, headquartered in Dublin's...
Fortinet revamps its FortiPartner programme
Fortinet has announced it has enhanced its FortiPartner Programme for the EMEA and APAC regions. The new programme, including new certification and re-aligned partner levels, is designed to help partners build expertise on the full range of Fortinet’s network security...
The over-the-top debate
Over-the-top (OTT) services delivered via the Internet have become part and parcel of the lives of consumers today, says Eckart Zollner, head of Business Development, The Jasco Group. From converged multimedia services such as High Definition (HD) audio and video to...
Protect your e-wallet from online fraud
Kaspersky Lab has created a new interactive project, One Dollar Lesson, that guides users through common online banking threats and shows them how to protect their money in each instance. Online financial fraud is a growing threat. In fact, according to a survey...
Ricoh wins design award
The Ricoh Unified Communication System P3500 has received an iF Design Award 2015 from iF International Forum Design GmbH, a German company and one of the world’s leaders in design promotion for industrial products. The iF Design Award is a prestigious global honour...
Making money out of video conferencing
As the local and global economy battles to rid itself from the hangover of the subprime mortgage clash, which propelled the world into global recession in 2008, companies of all sizes - and in every industry -are moving quickly to adopt video conferencing as a way to...
Compensation Fund extension aids SMEs
The Department of Labour has extended the deadline for Return of Earnings for employers registered with the Compensation Fund to 31 May this year. These returns are usually due by the end of March each year, says Madelein van der Watt, development manager Sage Pastel...
Renewed interest in laptops, desktops
There are still millions smartphones being sold – including in the early part of this year – but it seems there is still a strong market for laptops and desktop PCs, no matter what trends the market research people are serving up, says Christopher Riley, CEO of laptop...
Intel brings the Developer Zone to SA
At an event hosted in Johannesburg, Intel South Africa announced the local availability of its Intel Developer Zone, a global programme designed to provide software developers and businesses with a single point of access to a variety of tools, communities and resources. The Intel Developer Zone provides a platform for developers to engage with peers and develop, market and sell their software.
Ovum recognises OutSystems
OutSystems, the enterprise Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) platform provider, has announced that industry analyst firm Ovum has named OutSystems Platform as a market leader in the 2015 Ovum Decision Matrix for Mobile Application Development Platforms (MADP)....
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