Disparity in cyber protection between HQ, SA branches flagged
According to the latest Kaspersky study, 46% of geo-distributed businesses surveyed in South Africa identified a disparity between the levels of cyber protection across all sites - 30% of these companies admitted this problem, but didn't think it was critical; the...
Kaspersky bows out of the US market
Security software vendor Kaspersky is closing its US office. This follows last month's decision from the US Commerce Department to ban the sale of Kaspersky software in the US from the end of this week (20 July). The Russian company, which has been operating in the US...
Executives start to shoulder responsibility for AI ethics
There has been a radical shift in the roles responsible for leading and upholding AI ethics at organisations. A new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study asked which function is primarily accountable for AI ethics, 80% of respondents pointed to a non-technical...
Elon Musk, Twitter board discuss takeover bid
Elon Musk is one step closer to his goal of acquiring Twitter. The world's richest man met with the Twitter board yesterday, apparently to discuss details of a potential deal. Musk earlier this week announced his intention to acquire the company through a hostile...
Global smartphone shipments down
Worldwide smartphone shipments fell 11% year on year amid unfavorable economic conditions and sluggish seasonal demand in the first quarter of 2022, according to Canalys research. Samsung led the market with a 24% share, up from 19% in Q4 2021 as the vendor revamped...
These are the top ransomware attacks to be wary of this year
In 2022, ransomware will continue to harm businesses all over the world, with cybercriminals' attack types and strategies evolving all the time. The increase in ransomware attacks on businesses means that businesses must be hypervigilant about cybercrimes and be aware...
Greater investments needed to unlock power of digital economy
South Africa's trouble is not a lack of innovation. It's investment and support for entrepreneurs and small businesses that is the major stumbling block preventing the country from harnessing the transformative power of the digital economy. By Dr Andrew De Vries, GM:...
Few CIOs have a good relationship with the CFO
Only 30% of CFO-CIO relationships are characterised by strong collegiality and business centricity, according to a recent survey by Gartner. These two key attributes define a strong digital partnership without which organizations struggle to find funding for digital...
Video telematics installed base set for growth
The North American video telematics market is three times the size of the European, which is so far largely dominated by activities in the UK, according to a new Berg Insight market study covering the video telematics market. Berg Insight estimates that the installed...
Africans are silent on impending climate change disaster
Africa has become the face of the global climate crisis, yet Greta Thunberg has emerged as the continent's leading voice of advocacy - even among African activists, according to the newly launched report, "Climate Change in Africa: Are Africans sleepwalking to...
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POPI could kickstart data optimisation
The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act will give businesses the opportunity to reinvent their enterprise data storage and management, says Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). Speaking at the Hitachi Information Forum in Johannesburg last week Friday, HDS experts...
Acer named a 2015 CES honouree
Acer has announced it has been named a 2015 CES Innovation Awards Honouree for its Aspire R 13 Series of Convertible Notebooks. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, independent engineers and...
The challenges and opportunities of BYOx
The emerging bring your own app trend is adding a challenging new dimension to the BYOD landscape, says Brent Lees, senior product marketing manager at Riverbed Technology. Only a few years ago, BYOD was causing headaches among CIOs around the world. Now that the BYOD...
Reliability key to data centre success
The modern data centre exists for only one purpose, says Veeam Software regional manager for Southern Africa Warren Olivier, and that is to give business users the applications and data they need to do their jobs. “The perfect data centre, like the perfect power...
IndigoCube to offer Agile software courses
IndigoCube has entered into a partnership with Software Education, a leading provider of training across the entire software development life cycle. In terms of the agreement, IndigoCube will be accredited to offer the full range of Software Education’s agile courses....
Connection Telecom celebrates 10 years
Connection Telecom, the pioneering leaders of enterprise Voice-over-IP (VoIP) communications, celebrates a decade in business this month. Growth with the market From a standing start in 2004, the company took the lead in the key hosted segment of the South African...
Presence Suite 10.0 now available
Jasco has recently announced the availability of Presence Technology’s latest version of their Presence Suite – version 10.0 - which incorporates significant enhancements to meet the customer journey and improve the customer experience. This latest iteration provides...
Salesforce partnership produces CloudSmiths
Two specialist Salesforce.com partners are merging to create a larger and experienced development house for enterprise applications based on the Salesforce.com’s enterprise platform as a service (ePAAS) solution, called Force.com. The new entity is named CloudSmiths,...
Xerox announces Impika eVolution
Xerox, represented locally by Bytes Document Solutions, has announced the arrival of the Xerox Impika eVolution. Flexible enough to handle both plain papers and high-quality, inkjet-treated stocks, the drop-on-demand piezoelectric production inkjet device runs at...
Mobile: a device or a channel?
Three years ago, Forrester started addressing the question of whether “mobile” is a channel or a device. Today, having gone through rapid mobile innovation, this question remains pertinent, especially in the contact centre industry. In an article by Tobias Goebel,...
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