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...

Geo-distributed businesses most at risk

Over one-third (39%) of geographically distributed companies in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region identify building and maintaining a cohesive IT infrastructure across multiple sites as their primary concern, according to a new Kaspersky survey. At the...

Nutanix and Dell collaborate on hybrid multicloud solutions

Nutanix has announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies aimed at accelerating customers' digital transformation journeys fueled by infrastructure modernisation and modern application development. Through this collaboration, joint customers will be able to...

Voice and text interactions will soon supplement customer surveys

By 2025, 60% of organisations with voice of the customer (VoC) programs will supplement traditional surveys by analyzing voice and text interactions with customers, according to Gartner. Business and CX leaders will continue to seek ways to diminish reliance on...

Esports titles selected for high school championships

The growth of esports starts at school level. Schools are the breeding ground where champions are fashioned by schools that have the interest of learners at heart. So it is not surprising to see that the entire Protea Esports Team that participated in International...

Massive increase in spend by top semiconductor buyers

The semiconductor shortage and the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)’ production in 2021, but the top 10 OEMs increased their chip spending by 25,2% and accounted for 42,1% of the total market, according to preliminary results...

Louise Taute appointed as southern Africa MD of Westcon-Comstor

Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa has announced the appointment of Louise Taute as MD for the southern Africa region. In her role, Taute will assist with the local management of the Westcon-Comstor business to help the global and regional executive drive sales,...

Vodacom revenue growth underpinned by services

Vodacom group revenue grew 6,4% to R26,7-billion for the quarter ended 31 December 2021. Group service revenue was up 5,3%, supported by sustained demand for connectivity and growth in new services such as financial services. In South Africa, service revenue grew...

Water flowed on Mars for longer than we thought

Mars once rippled with rivers and ponds billions of years ago, providing a potential habitat for microbial life. As the planet’s atmosphere thinned over time, that water evaporated, leaving the frozen desert world that NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) studies...

Global power outages impacted 350m people in 2021

Major power outages impacted at least 350 million people - more than 4% of the global population - last year as new power supply challenges have emerged on top of more traditional ones, according to a new report by IHS Markit. The report, entitled Are We Entering an...

Slow Q4 but tablets see solid growth for 2021

Worldwide tablet shipments reached 46-million units during the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21), posting a decline for the second time since the pandemic began in 2020. Shipments declined 11,9% year over year in 4Q21 as demand slowed, according to preliminary data from...

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McAfee positioned in magic quadrant

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AxizWorkgroup, EMC join forces

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ESET integrates with Cyberoam

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Systems of things and the Internet

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Boost open source skills with Obsidian

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Overcoming staff training challenges

Companies need to understand the value of training their employees. Quality training is critical to increase productivity and decrease staff turnover and the need for supervision by making staff more self-reliant, Justine Morgan, GM of Decision Enablement at Decision...

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