Government commits to SDG alignment
Kathy Gibson reports – Government is taking the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seriously, aligning the National Development Plan (NDP) and the Medium-Term Development Plan to the SDGs. The soon-to-be-released Medium-Term Development Plan will outline...
SA lags on SDGs, but private sector makes progress
Kathy Gibson reports - The private sector is making progress on attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), but there are still some significant challenges to overcome. Overall, South Africa has achieved just 17% of its goals, so there is still a tremendously...
Sophisticated firmware rootkit allows durable persistence
Kaspersky's researchers have uncovered a rootkit developed by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that stays on the victim's machine even if the operating system is rebooted or Windows is reinstalled - making it very dangerous in the long run. Dubbed...
5 SA recipients for Google’s News Initiative Innovation Challenge
Five South African recipients have been selected as part of Google's News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge, with Daily Maverick, Quote This Woman+, Media Hack Collective, Open Cities Lab and Code for Africa (CfA) among the 34 recipients drawn from Israel, Turkey,...
South African debt addiction set to worsen
Millions of South Africans are struggling to fight the ongoing battle of debt addiction - a problem that has worsened over the last decade and doesn't look like improving in the foreseeable future. Given the current economic turbulence and its knock-on effects on the...
Gartner forecasts slowdown in chip revenue
Global semiconductor revenue is projected to grow 7,4% in 2022, down from 2021 growth of 26,3%, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. This is down from the previous quarter's forecast of 13,6% growth in 2022. "Although chip shortages are abating, the global...
Ombud warns consumers on prescribed debts
The law forbidding creditors from collecting on prescribed debts which falls under the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 (NCA) is well-known, established and adhered to - or so everyone would think. The aim of this law is to safeguard consumers against unfair and...
TUT Solar Team take Ilanga Cup
Red Star Raceway was the scene of celebration as the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Solar Team emerged victorious and were crowned champions of the 2022 Ilanga Cup Solar Challenge. The team racked-up 390 kilometres during the eight-hour long endurance...
Launch of Sigfox SA ensures IoT network continuity
Kathy Gibson reports – Internet if Things (IoT) provider Sigfox South Africa was officially launched today, continuing the infrastructure and operations of the defunct Skwidnet. Community Venture Investments Holdings has partnered with Fidelity ADT, Discovery Insure,...
South Africans using digital payments big target for scammers
According to the Kaspersky Digital Payment survey, 35% of respondents from South Africa faced phishing scams when using online banking or mobile wallet services. Forty three percent have personally encountered fake websites, and 59% experienced scams (via texts or...
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WhiteSpace Alliance grows global deployment
The WhiteSpace Alliance (WSA) has announced that technology sharing and interoperability testing among its members is accelerating global deployment of TV band Internet access. WhiteSpace Alliance has been at the forefront of developing standards-based...
MasterCard, Premier Bank break into Somalia
At the World Economic Forum on Africa, MasterCard announced its partnership with Premier Bank, becoming the first international payments network to enter Somalia. As a result of the partnership, Premier Bank will now issue and accept the first MasterCard-branded...
Genesys integrates with Skype For Business
Genesys has announced an integration with Skype for Business to deliver best-in-class customer engagement, contact centre and unified communication solutions all from one single place: the Genesys Customer Experience Platform. Genesys is one of the first enterprise-class contact centre solutions providers to achieve a native integration with Skype for Business using the Unified Communications Managed API, part of the Skype Developer Platform.
UC gets real with Connection Telecom
For all the talk about unified communications (UC), few companies have delivered a truly connected platform and ecosystem with real business benefit. Cloud-based PBX provider, Connection Telecom is here to change all that with its Telviva business communication...
Arbor Networks releases Q1 2015 DDoS report
Arbor Networks, a provider of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and advanced threat protection solutions for enterprise and service provider networks, has released its Q1 2015 global DDoS attack data. The data shows a continuation of extremely high volume attacks,...
Intervate a Microsoft finalist
Intervate, a T-Systems company, has announced it has been named a finalist in the 2015 Microsoft Public Sector: CityNext Partner of the Year Awards. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and...
Intervate wins Microsoft partner award
Intervate, a T-Systems company, has proudly announced it has won the 2015 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for South Africa. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and...
Interwaste uses Ricoh document solution
It took Interwaste’s board only one demonstration to give the green light for a project that would ultimately cut its costs and 180 000 sheets of paper annually from its waste bin manifest process. Chiefly for Interwaste, it gained surety that the automated manifests...
Seven ways talent is lost
Recruiting the right people is difficult in a market where many important commercial, technical and management skills are in short supply. Keeping employees once you’ve recruited them can be even harder, says Anton van Heerden, MD, Sage HR & Payroll. Every time...
Bytes MS reduces costs with NCR
Banks can each save up to R5-million per year by employing a tailored cash management solution. This is according to Alan Anderson, Bytes Managed Solutions’ Business Development director, who says that Bytes Managed Solutions (Bytes MS) can ensure significant cost savings through its latest cash management technology from NCR Corporation, the global leader in consumer transaction technologies.
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