Digital companies’ emission reductions lag climate commitments

Despite progress in climate reporting and renewable electricity use, digital companies are falling short in cutting emissions at the pace required to achieve global climate targets, according to the new report Greening Digital Companies: Monitoring Emissions and...

Transport costs keep millions away from work and education

As South Africans face sharply higher fuel prices from yesterday, new Ipsos research shows that transport affordability is already affecting access to work and education for a significant number of people. The nationally representative findings, from the Ipsos...

ID-based attacks rife as phishing, authentication abuse on the rise

Phishing accounted for more than half of cybersecurity incident response engagements in the second quarter of 2026, while authentication abuse was observed in 65% of engagements, according to the latest Incident Response Trends report from Cisco Talos. The findings...

Tech sales under the lash as consumers curb spending

South Africa’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market is proving resilient so far in 2026, although retailers and brands in the tech and durables (T&D) sector are experiencing a number of challenges. This is according to NielsenIQ (NIQ) South Africa, which has...

Interest in NFTs continues to fade

The last two years have been rough for the NFT market, and 2024 doesn't look much better. With falling sales and investors losing appetite for digital artwork, market projections became less optimistic, showing only a modest 2,6% annual growth by 2028, twenty times...

Global telecom, network API spend set for 57% CAGR

Worldwide revenues for telecom and network APIs will reach $6,7-billion in 2028, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57,1% over the 2023-2028 forecast period. Worldwide market...

Limited IP resources leave smaller ISPs vulnerable

Over the last few years, Internet service providers (ISPs) have invested heavily in ramping up and fortifying their security infrastructures. Despite the sophisticated security infrastructure that ISPs have put in place, the sheer number of attacks has left smaller...

New MD for Westcon-Comstor Africa

Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa has announced the appointment of Vincent Entonu as MD for its Africa region. Effective 1 March 2022, Entonu will be tasked with daily oversight of the global distributor's African region while providing executive management local...

Dark matter study proposes how to measure what we cannot see

Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the centre, with illuminated gas in between. But our eyes can only glimpse the surface of what holds our galaxy together. About 95% of the mass of our galaxy is invisible...

Remote work creates a gap in security practices

As the threat landscape evolves and cyber-attacks become increasingly more sophisticated, many organisations have surprisingly not implemented security solutions that ensure best-in-class connectivity and security for remote employees. This is among the findings from...

Regional ICT spending set to hit $229bn

Overall spending on information and communications technology (ICT) across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) will top $229-billion this year, an increase of 2,7% over 2021 as the market continues to rebound from the turbulence of the last two years....

Supply chain frontline workers settle on hybrid working

A massive 61% of supply chain leaders believe that the acceleration of remote work due to the pandemic will create a permanent hybrid work model, even at the frontline, according to Gartner. The annual Gartner Future of Supply Chain survey of 983 supply chain leaders...

Oracle invests R15m in African startups

Oracle has announced support of over R15-million for tech startups in Africa to help accelerate their digital initiatives with the latest cloud technologies and business resources. Led by Oracle for Startups, the multinational cloud computing company will provide...

Intel expands program to go after more bugs

Intel is expanding its Bug Bounty program with Project Circuit Breaker, bringing together a community of elite hackers to hunt bugs in firmware, hypervisors, GPUs, chipsets and more. Project Circuit Breaker broadens and deepens Intel’s existing open Bug Bounty...

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Zetes goes green, wins ISO certification

Zetes has been awarded ISO 14001 certification for its travel and identity document and card production site. Zetes has already received recognition for its quality standards and holds accreditation under ISO 27001 for its secure document production site and under ISO...

A checklist for cloud readiness

South African companies are continuing a steady migration to cloud services in the wake of more reliable bandwidth, a maturing market driven by large multinational cloud services providers and a better understanding of the value proposition of cloud services. But,...

The fiduciary duties of employees

For employees who think a fiduciary duty - a legal duty to act solely in another party’s interests - exists only between company directors and the company, this is not so, writes Gareth Cremen, partner at Ramsay Webber Attorneys. A fiduciary duty can exist between a...

Moving past the hype of SDN

Software-defined networking (SDN) is already one of the most hyped concepts in IT. Brent Lees, senior product marketing manager for EMEA of Riverbed Technology, looks at ways to start realising the promised benefits. With agility increasingly seen as a key to business...

Adobe unveils suite of mobile apps for iPad

Adobe has unveiled a new suite of mobile apps and complementary hardware that connect Adobe Creative Cloud, the company's flagship offering for creatives worldwide, to iPad. A digital pen, Adobe Ink, and a digital ruler, Adobe Slide, bring true creative freedom and...

Kyocera awards service professionals

Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa recently awarded their top service professionals at their annual Service Awards ceremony.Once a year, Kyocera hosts a competition for engineers that service their products on site. This event is an opportunity for Kyocera to...

Vivotek offers around-the-clock surveillance

When darkness descends it is worrying to think about the criminals that may be trying to sneak onto your business’s property. Night-time surveillance can be a challenge, unless you are willing to seat a guard at every corner.Vivotek, locally distributed through...

WiFi paves the way for e-learning

According to research South Africa is the most dynamic e-learning market in Africa, where over the last two years, many countries across Africa have embarked on new initiatives to integrate learning technology into education and training.  However, as the growth...

Emerge Mobile launches MPOS solution

Emerge Mobile, a South African based technology company in the mobile payments space, has announced the commercial launch of its Edge MPOS payment card acceptance solution. iKhokha, a South African, Cape Town based financial services brand created by Emerge Mobile, is...

No contact centre is an island

The contact centre of today is made up of various communication and management solutions. Despite this inherent complexity, it’s essential that the contact centre does not stand isolated as a silo within the business, says Jeff Bowyer, sales and marketing manager at...

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ENVIRONMENT:Our client, a prominent player in CRM and Contact Centre solutions within the Southern African region, is known for its utilization of cutting-edge technology to serve an enthusiastic customer base. They are currently in search of a First Line Support...

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