New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation

Kathy Gibson reports - Actom has opened a new assembly line for locally-assembled LiFePO₄ battery energy storage systems (BESS). Yesterday, the company also announced that is expanding manufacturing capacity for its high voltage equipment. These moves are significant...

Herotel brings Amazon’s Leo satellite services to SA

Kathy Gibson reports – Herotel has signed a distribution agreement with Amazon to bring its Leo Constellation satellite service to South Africa. Set to go live in 2027, South Africa will be among one of the first countries in the world to connect to the low earth...

Social media the top culprit as deepfake fraud grows

Deepfake attacks are growing, and costing people more. Scial media is the main culprit

Muse highlights privacy, copyright issues in AI training

Copyright and privacy issues under the spotlight as Meta withdraws Muse feature

Supply chain players need to unlearn to fight climate change

Experts stress that to fight climate change, it is critical to transform supply chains as they produce around 60% of all carbon emissions globally. But while greener supply chains are a growing imperative, the supply chain community is "unengaged" on the topic,...

Customers vote no to AI in customer service

A significant 64% of customers would prefer that companies didn’t use artificial intelligence (AI) in their customer service, according to a survey by Gartner. Furthermore, 53% of customers would consider switching to a competitor if they found out a company was going...

PC shipments into MEA grow while tablets decline

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing device (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, is expected to decline 6% year on year in shipment terms for the second quarter of 2022, according to International Data...

SA to get first electric minibus taxis

Fuel price relief for minibus taxi operators could be at hand as a project team of companies and research institutions have announced a research partnership to investigate and advance the feasibility of an electric minibus taxi in South African conditions by testing...

Enterprise WLAN momentum continues

The enterprise segment of the worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market continued its strong growth in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) with revenues increasing 17,1% year over year to $1,95-billion, according to results published in the International Data...

Ethernet switch, router revenues are up

The worldwide Ethernet switch market grew 12,7% year over year in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) with revenues of $7,6-billion. The total worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded $3,6-billion in revenue in 1Q22, a 3,5% increase year over...

Government departments urged to address cybersecurity gaps

Following the ransomware attack on the Department of Justice in 2021 – and the recent exposure of vulnerabilities by hacking group SpiderLog$ - it’s time for the government to bolster and modernise its cybersecurity efforts. Check Point Software Technologies has noted...

Sorting spam emails costs employees big in time

Employees who receive 30 to 60 external emails per day could be wasting 11 hours every year looking through and identifying spam messages. For employees receiving between 60 and 100 emails a day, this number rises to 18 hours per year, which is more than two business...

This is the most wanted malware from May

Check Point Research (CPR) has published its latest Global Threat Index for May 2022. Researchers report that Emotet, an advanced, self-propagating and modular Trojan, is still the most prevalent as a result of multiple widespread campaigns. This month, Snake...

Automation, intelligence, resiliency key for supply chains

With increasing pressure on supply chain leaders to implement technological responses to disruptions, supply shortages and security incidents, Gartner has identified the top eight supply chain technology themes in 2022. Gartner analysts have selected the themes for...

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Apple Watch moves BYOD to BYOX

“Gorgeous”. “Beautiful”. “Actually useful”. “Epic”. The accolades from the reviewers of the Apple Watch keep pouring in and the new device – though not the first of its kind in the market – holds the potential of becoming as ubiquitous as the iPhone or the iPod, says...

Marval Africa partners with M2TD

Marval Africa has partnered with M2TD Consulting to bring Marval’s global leading IT service management (ITSM) tool, MSM, to the South African public and mining sectors. As a result of this partnership, M2TD has exclusive rights to resell Marval’s ITSM solutions...

Avanade to acquire KCS.NET

Avanade has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire KCS.net and its subsidiaries (including Infoman AG), headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland. With approximately 300 employees, KCS.net is one of the largest Microsoft Dynamics AX/ERP partners in...

Zazoo launches Ultility Vending System

Zazoo, previously Net1 Mobile Solutions, has launched its Utility Vending System at African Utility Week (AUW) held in Cape Town. This turnkey vending solution simplifies tariff management and consumer arrears collection, allowing utilities and municipalities to...

Gemalto boosts e-government adoption

Gemalto has announced Coesys mGov, an innovative new mobile strong digital authentication solution that enables citizens to access online government services using a combination of their contactless national eID card and NFC phone. As a result, it allows authorities...

Multiple device use is here to stay

There is a school of thought that the future will see us using only one digital device to meet all our needs. However, this is counter-intuitive given the ubiquity of these devices and the many and varied roles they play, says Graham Braum, GM of Lenovo Africa....

Liquid Telecom SA expands reseller base

Liquid Telecom South Africa announced an expansion of its reseller base in response to increasing demand for broadband connectivity over its award-winning satellite network. Liquid Telecom was named the 2014 VSAT Provider Of The Year at the SatCom Star Awards and its...

Ricoh SA focuses on being services-led

Ricoh SA has made four new appointments to key management positions that enhance the company’s IT service delivery capability and provide strong leadership in strategic regions. The appointments support Ricoh’s shift to being an IT services-led company over the...

VMware takes on East Africa

Business and industry within the African context continues to boom. Markets are opening up, industry is developing and a growing desire by countries to become globally competitive, are all factors that are creating a favourable investment platform for many big...

JG Electronics uses Ricoh solution

John Georgiou started heat press sublimation printing in South Africa 20 years ago after spending five years in the electronics industry – and he did so against all odds. He had no help from his previous sublimation equipment vendor prior to working with Ricoh, the...

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Yearning for More in Your Career? iOCO Infrastructure Services Invites You to Explore Possibilities.We are seeking a Field Support Engineer to join our team and provide on-site technical support and assistance to clients or customers. You'll play a crucial role in...

Junior Azure Developer – Gauteng Menlyn

Looking for an exceptional candidate with the below: At least 2 years + experience doing .NET, C# Development.Advanced .NET platform knowledge.Experience with Microsoft web technologies:o Blazor o Web API.o API Gateway - Ocelot for Micro Services will be...

Support Engineer at FLOWGEAR – Western Cape Die Wingerd

Intermediate Support Engineer Monthly CTC: R30K - R 45KAs a Support Engineer, you'll be responsible for providing technical support to our customers. You're someone who has worked with databases, built a few Postman collections and done some scripting in Bash,...

Senior Software Developer – Western Cape Woodstock

The Software Engineer/Tech Lead will work collaboratively with the Merchant Journey team to drive development of merchant onboarding and dashboard. How you'll be making a difference: Work alongside the team and be a part of the full software development life...

SAP ABAP Developer (Expert) 0742 – Gauteng Pretoria

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INTERMEDIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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Our client, a medium-sized Engineering company based in, [URL Removed] specialising in the design, development, integration, implementation and support of complex hardware and software systems across the globe 24x7.Primarily based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, we...

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