The alarming cost of combating cybercrime
With organisations losing head-spinning figures to cyberattacks, the global cybercrime cost has snowballed over the years - and it will hit $9,2-trillion in 2024. According to data from Stocklytics.com, this is $1-trillion more than last year and the figure is...
iPhone drives more than half of Apple revenue
iPhone sales generated $69,7-billion, or 58% of Apple's total revenue, in the first quarter of 2024. This marks the highest proportion of revenue attributed to iPhone sales since the first quarter of 2021. Reflecting on the Stocklytics findings, financial analyst...
This is what trust will look like in the new normal
International Data Corporation's (IDC) top 10 predictions for the Future of Trust point to a new normal as the world continues to navigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Organisations - private sector, government, and educational institutions - have reached a...
Risk management requires a rethink
Organisations throughout South Africa are facing escalating threats due to a lack of risk awareness amongst employees, according to a new pan-EMEA study from Iron Mountain. According to the study, nearly half of employees (47%) claim to have made a "critical" error at...
BT looks to Covid research to combat cyber-attacks
BT has developed an epidemiology-based cybersecurity prototype, "Inflame", which uses deep reinforcement learning to enable enterprises to automatically detect and respond to cyber-attacks before they compromise a network. Using the spread of viruses in human...
Vodacom adds customers, reports higher revenue
Vodacom Group has reported revenue of R49,9-billion for the six months ended 30 September 2021, up 4,2%, as strong normalised growth of 7,9% was partially offset by rand appreciation. The group added 6,2-million customers to bring its total to 129,9-million across the...
Strategic priorities drive digital transformation
Global spending on the digital transformation (DX) of business practices, products, and organizations is forecast to reach $2,8-trillion in 2025, more than double the amount allocated in 2020. According to a new update to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
Supply chain issues stymie printer growth
After a strong start to the hardcopy market in the first half of 2021 the initial signs of supply chain issues finally came to light in 3Q21 as the market contracted by 21,5% compared with a year ago as most brands simply didn't have enough inventory to fulfill...
New findings change conceptions about pterosaurs
A University of Cape Town palaeobiologist is part of a new study that changes the way we think about the Late Cretaceous period, around 100-million years ago. Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, of the Department of Biological Sciences, is among the scientists who...
In-vehicle payment transaction volumes to exceed 4,7bn by 2026
A new study from Juniper Research has found the global transaction volume of in-vehicle payments will exceed 4,7-billion by 2026, up from just 87-million in 2021. In-vehicle payments are those where payments are made via vehicle systems, without requiring use of a...
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BCX moves up Empowerdex rankings
Business Connexion (BCX) has moved up from seventh position last year to fourth in 2014 in the ICT chart, Most Empowered ICT Companies, as published by the Empowerdex Top 100 Empowered Companies Survey. BCX has an impressive score of 85.16 points, almost eight points...
Cloud on Demand enhances vDC features
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Orange grows West African connectivity
Orange has opened West Africa’s first very large-capacity IP Point of Presence (PoP). The operational launch of this facility, which is located in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, is set to enhance Internet connectivity in the sub-region by offering faster connection speeds...
XDSL, Sizwe IT sign SLA
XDSL has signed a service level agreement (SLA) with Sizwe IT Group to support its national fibre network and Points of Presence (PoPs). XDSL recently announced that it will access Dark Fibre Africa’s (DFA’s) 8000 km of installed fibre to extend the capacity and reach...
Malicious malware and your business
Today, malware attacks are more frequent, devious and more targeted, successfully penetrating many businesses that consider their security strategies to be adequate, says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO ESET Southern Africa. Businesses should be aware that your security...
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Practical tech solutions key to SMME growth
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Sage VIP named ADP Streamline partner
ADP Streamline, a multinational provider of outsourced payroll and HR services solutions, has selected Sage VIP Payroll & HR as its channel and service partner for Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Botswana. This extends an existing relationship between the companies for...
Ericsson prepared World Cup network
Ericsson Key Event Experience solution has been implemented to support Telefonica | Vivo in 2014 World Cup, held in Brazil. The solution, used at events that usually lead to a drastic increase in mobile traffic, was used for the first time in Brazil by the operator....
Your laptop could harm your business
Love your laptop? Of course you do. But it could also be a dangerous agent which can bring a business to its knees. That’s because a good number of professionals don’t do anything about protecting the information which is contained on these very useful, but very...
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