Skills shortage hampers Africa’s fight against cybercrime
Kathy Gibson reports - As cyber attacks become more frequent, and more crippling, a massive shortage of cybersecurity skills is hampering Africa's ability to meet the onslaught. This is one of the troubling findings from "Elevating Africa's Cyber Resilience", a new...
Zuckerberg advocates for open source AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling for an open source model for artificial intelligence (AI). In an open letter, he points to how Linux became the industry standard for much of today's computing, as a result of being open source. AI could develop in the same way. "In...
Business imperatives drive the next phase of digital transformation
Kathy Gibson reports - The next phase of digital transformation will be driven by content services that are connected, cognitive, governed and secure. This is the word from Ed McQuiston, executive vice-president and chief commercial officer at Hyland, presenting the...
World Password Day highlights need for robust cybersecurity
World Password Day (tomorrow, 5 May) is a reminder of the increase in cyberthreats affecting South Africans and the country's businesses. “For example, a recent TransUnion study revealed that 37% of South Africans admitted that they had been targets of...
Africa’s city dwellers enjoy better livelihoods
Despite growing rapidly, Africa’s cities have provided improved access to services, jobs and infrastructure for millions of people in the last 30 years compared to smaller communities, a new report finds. Africa’s Urbanisation Dynamics: The Economic Power of Africa’s...
Disconnect between public and businesses on sustainability
A new survey commissioned by the Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business and carried out by YouGov has shown a huge disparity between public opinion on how businesses should behave when it comes to environmental and social issues, and how businesses are...
Cigarette market ‘greatly disrupted’ by lockdown ban
A recently published paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research found that the 20-week ban on the sale of cigarettes in 2020 greatly disrupted the cigarette market in South Africa and that, despite cigarette sales being illegal, most smokers were able to access them,...
Companies must cater for employees’ changing expectations
US employee annual voluntary turnover is likely to jump nearly 20% this year, from a prepandemic annual average of 31,9-million employees quitting their jobs to 37,4-million quitting in 2022, according to Gartner. "New employee expectations, and the availability of...
Hamilton Ratshefola takes over from Maphum Nxumalo at Gijima
Maphum Nxumalo is leaving Gijima, retiring as the company's group chief executive effective May 2022. Nxumalo has had a 45-year career in the ICT industry, serving for 14 years with the Massmart group before joining Infloplan and then becoming the executive and...
African banks shift gear to drive digitalisation
The last year has seen a growing trend towards the digitalisation of banking services, driven by the cost-saving and efficiency effect induced by digital platforms. A new report from African Banker magazine and engagement banking platform Backbase shows that the...
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Personal cloud headaches for IT
The simplicity of cloud-based solutions for personal storage has triggered rapid expansion of ‘shadow IT’ in the average organisation, in turn bringing a range of new threats and risks into the IT environment. That’s according to Oliver Potgieter, director of Alto...
MTN recognised at Ask Afrika Index
MTN South Africa has been named the winner of the Best Service in Telecommunications sector and the Best Call Centre in the country across all industries in the 2014/15 Ask Afrika Orange Index Awards. "We are very proud of this achievement as the telecommunications...
Merchants wins two BPO awards
Merchants, southern Africa’s largest and oldest business process outsourcing (BPO) and customer experience specialist, has won two categories in the 2014 BPeSA Annual Contact Centre and BPO Awards.
MWeb tops in customer service
South African customers have voted MWeb the best Internet service provider (ISP) in a nationwide index which rates SA’s top companies on their service excellence. At the Ask Afrika Orange Index Awards announced in Johannesburg on Friday, MWeb took first place in its...
ESA’s impact on job vacancies
In a bid to raise productivity, reduce unemployment and ensure training for unskilled or marginally-skilled workers, the South African government recently introduced the Employment Services Act (ESA) 4 of 2004, says Gareth Cremen, partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys....
ASUS launches new notebook ranges in SA
ASUS has launched its B-Series and P-Series ranges of commercial notebooks, with devices available through resellers from the end of November 2014. The ASUS Advanced B series of notebooks are ultra-light, super-slim, extra-durable, and offer superior performance for...
DiData named leader by Gartner
Dimension Data, the $6-billion ICT solutions and services provider, today announced it is one of six organisations worldwide that has been positioned by Gartner, in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services...
Liquid Telecom uses Alcatel-Lucent equipment
Alcatel-Lucent is to provide Liquid Telecom with various GPON and DWDM technologies for the expansion of its networks in Kenya and Uganda. Alcatel-Lucent is providing upgrades to previously deployed dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) and gigabit passive...
CA expands API management solutions
CA Technologies announced new and expanded API management solutions that accelerate mobile and Web application delivery, improve customer engagements with frictionless access, and open new revenue channels and opportunities. The CA API Developer Portal is now...
PCs remain important to the business world
While PC sales continue to slump – and while tablet sales remain relatively buoyant - end-users should not write off PCs as they will, despite the sales declines, continue to play a part in the overall business world for some time to come. So says Christopher Riley,...
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Intermediate Software Developer – Gauteng Centurion
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