Chinese brands suck up smart vacuum shipments
Global shipments of smart vacuums reached 4,5-million units - a YoY increase of 11,1% - according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker for Q1 2024. The following Chinese manufacturers made it into the top 10 (arranged alphabetically): Anker...
How Prasa plans to modernise the railways
Kathy Gibson reports - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has a bold plan for modernising the country's railways, and will invest over R100-billion in the process. This is the word from Hishaam Emeran, CEO of Prasa, who says the agency has a clear...
Cryptoscam fleeces users of their crypto wallets
There has been a noticeable development in the prominence of cryptocurrency-related phishing scams over the past few years, linked to a boom in digital currency. In 2021, Kaspersky products detected and prevented over 460 000 crypto-related phishing attacks overall -...
Intel, Microsoft donate I/O virtualisation specification for the hyperscale era
By Ronak Singhal - Intel has contributed the Scalable I/O Virtualisation (SIOV) specification to the Open Compute Project (OCP) with Microsoft. This enables device and platform manufacturers access to an industry standard specification for hyperscale virtualisation of...
SASE growth changes market landscape
The convergence of WAN enterprise networking and security fueled strong growth in SAS- related networking and security technologies. "The pandemic made remote work and cloud-based applications necessary, and by doing so, accelerated the obsolescence of the classic...
Manufacturers show increasing positive sentiment
Confidence levels among South African manufacturers improved on the back of better business conditions, the Q1 Absa Manufacturing Survey shows. According to the survey, overall business confidence increased by five points to 43 during the quarter, a reversal after two...
Does kindness make us happy?
On International Happiness Day, Synthesis Software Technologies launched an app powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to test if kindness makes us happy. The Happiness App asks users to perform an act of kindness and then smile. The AI then reads the person's face...
Oracle debuts Java 18
Oracle has announced the availability of Java 18, the latest version of the programming language and development platform. Java 18 (Oracle JDK 18) delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including nine enhancements to the platform that...
Directors are key decision-makers for emerging technology investments
A significant 53% percent of organisations report their board of directors are among the main decision makers for emerging technology (ET) investments, just behind CIOs and chief technology officers (CTOs), according to a recent Gartner survey. Gartner surveyed 500...
Fuel costs leave SA’s workers on the brink
The price of petrol in South Africa is expected to approach R24 per litre in April, as global petroleum supply is affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The average price of petrol around the world over the last year was R26.15 per litre, but this is no consolation...
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Lexmark named MPS leader by IDC
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Experience Ferrari in Monaco with Kaspersky
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Time commends Acer Chromebook 13
Since Acer launched its Chromebook 13 as the industry’s first Chromebook powered by an NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor and the company’s first with a 13.3-inch display, it has received numerous positive reviews from the media, including Time, for its long battery...
Acer expands Chrome devices
Building on the success of its award-winning and best-selling Acer C7 Series Chromebook, Acer has announced the expansion of its Chrome OS devices with the new Chromebox CXI and Chromebook 11. Acer’s Chrome devices are ideal for education, businesses, organisations,...
Why PMOs fail
The outlook for the project management office (PMO) may be considered, by some, to be bleak. According to the Association for Project Management, 50% of PMOs close within three years, with Gartner quoting just over the same percentage for the correlated PMO...
Cloud growth fuels storage need
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DCC offers Huawei smartphones
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Porsche, BlackBerry announce new smartphone
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Orange offers M2M geolocation
The new machine to machine (M2M) worldwide geolocation offering from Orange Business Services provides realtime location tracking of corporate assets and equipment anywhere in the world via cellular networks, regardless of the operator. Enterprises can choose either...
Automation Tester
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Excel Data Specialist
Excel boffin required to start asap! Our client in the insurance industry is looking for a Excel fundi to be responsible for ensuring the integrity of high volumes of data. You will be responsible for drawing down reports and ensuring data is clean - strong financial...
Junior Business Analyst – Gauteng Sandown
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We are looking for a skilful .NET developer to join our team of developers. If you are looking for a place to get challenged and get exposure to various projects, this might be the opportunity you are looking for. Minimum Qualifications B.Sc Computer Science, B. Eng...
Data Analyst at Parvana Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
About our client:If you are looking for a meaningful and impactful contribution to philanthropic initiatives while earning well and working for a dynamic, organised and innovative global organisation, this employer is well worth considering. What you will be...
Automation Tester – Gauteng Sandown
Job Spec 3 + Years of Automation Testing experience with Selenium Java API Testing experience required Added advantage of Appium experience/ knowledge Added advantage of Devops/ CI-CD experience / knowledge No CSV holders with company name on CSV Visa. Desired Skills:...
Excel Data Specialist – Gauteng Bryanston
Excel boffin required to start asap! Our client in the insurance industry is looking for a Excel fundi to be responsible for ensuring the integrity of high volumes of data. You will be responsible for drawing down reports and ensuring data is clean - strong financial...
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