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Google challenges Apple and OpenAI with Gemini Live for Pixel 9 devices
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Dynamic inductive recharging could change the EV game
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NextGens challenge the status quo of family businesses
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Government IT spend set for 5% global growth
Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total $565,7-billion in 2022, an increase of 5% from 2021, according to Gartner. "The last few years of enduring pandemic challenges have mobilized a wave of digital transformation activities in government organisations...
Mobile-first comms empower a hybrid workforce
Organisations have shifted to hybrid work models and adopted new mobile communications strategies due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Evaluating Mobile Communications Solutions for the Hybrid Workforce, finds that companies'...
Pressure to improve ESG drives increased spend in business services
Organisations face mounting pressures to improve and document their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Because the initial steps to a sustainable transformation can be daunting to firms that have not attempted anything similar in the past,...
Vantage secures solar energy for Joburg data centre
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Employee Tax Incentive abuse exploits unemployed youth
Abusive Employee Tax Incentive schemes (ETI) marketed by some training providers has done massive damage to the training and development industry, leaving many businesses hesitant to revisit the many social and economic benefits of the scheme. But, most crucially,...
Is your router secure?
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Konica wins BL awards
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Tintri expands global footprint
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Check Point acquires Hyperwise
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Airtel DRC unveils new head office
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Employee engagement key for success
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Air Namibia manages costs with Accelya
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X2 Service Desk Agent I – Gauteng Sandton
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