A third of employees laid off due to AI will need to be rehired

As AI continues to accelerate the pace and scope of work, CIOs must prepare for four shifts that will influence the future of work, says Gartner. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI-era, they will realise their greatest mistake was believing...

IT channel pivots to add value as AI takes off

Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape - Artificial intelligence (AI) may be at the peak of the hype cycle, but this doesn’t detract from the value that the technology will bring to the industry. That’s the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle, who...

Network to the fore as agentic AI adoption takes off

In the era of agentic AI, the network is becoming the critical foundation for trust, security and the seamless operating models through which people and AI can build the future. However, as organisations move quickly to gain an advantage from AI, a significant gap has...

Labour disputes emerge as SA’s top legal concern

Labour matters rank highest among the everyday legal questions that South Africans are asking. This is according to data aggregated by My AI Lawyer, which found that more than a third (37%) of the queries processed on My AI Lawyer in the first six months of 2026 is...

Quantum Internet poised to revolutionise global connectivity

The advent of the quantum Internet, a revolutionary communication system utilising quantum mechanical principles and qubits instead of binary bits, is poised to redefine global connectivity with unprecedented levels of security and performance, according to...

Share-based employee compensation includes ESG targets

Almost two thirds (60%) of companies around the world who responded to the Global Equity Organisation's (GEO) Global Equity Insights Survey (GEIS) apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets to share-based employee compensation. The non-profit body says...

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...

SA-born artist aims to make massive NFT sale

South African-born artist and engineer, Conor Mccreedy has embarked on an ambitious non-fungible token (NFT) project whereby a 2m x 2m oil painting of the moon produced will be divided into 900 squares, each with an Ethereum token, through collaboration with a private...

Legal and compliance issues will extend beyond Covid in 2022

Gartner has identified four emerging risk trends that legal and compliance should anticipate over the next two years. These trends will determine the significance of legal, compliance and privacy risks to organisational objectives and the demand for new legal and...

Labour shortages add to constrained semiconductor supply

With Covid-19 continuing to impact the global economy, the semiconductor market continues to experience uneven shortages and tight supply. The general theme for semiconductors in 2021 was shortages in mature process technology nodes. International Data Corporation...

Electric car shipments to hit 6m in 2022

In 2022, 6-million electric cars (battery electric and plug-in hybrid) will be shipped, up from 4-million in 2021, according to a new forecast by Gartner. “At COP26 in November 2021, the Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council agreed that vehicle manufacturers...

Fewer illicit cyber transactions despite financial crime increase

Reported fraud across the financial services industry in Africa has spiked, particularly in South Africa. Despite this, there has been a decline in illicit crypto transactions according to Chainalysis. This is the word from Eva Crouwel, head of financial crime at...

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VMware expands vertical solutions

VMware has announced that it has expanded its portfolio of validated desktop solutions for vertical industries to address challenges experienced by individual business sectors. The solutions meet specific performance, availability and security needs of vertical...

New appointments to MMA board of directors

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), the leading global trade association for the mobile industry, has announced the addition of 13 new industry leaders to its MMA South Africa board of directors, serving for a one-year term from 1 August 2014. They join an active...

ITIL awareness is key to business success

Increasingly IT departments are being called upon by business to be accountable as part of the business, and not just as part of the IT department. It is with this that Quintica has seen a recent spike in the demand for ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) awareness...

Bytes named official BAE AI distributor

Bytes Universal Systems has announced its appointment as an authorised distributor of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence products in South Africa. BAE Systems Applied Intelligence (formerly known as BAE Systems Detica) provides a suite of products that focuses on...

The rise of software as a service

You know software as a service (SaaS) is a trend. If you’re not already using some of your software solutions over the cloud in a pay-per-use model, you’re definitely considering it. And if you’re considering it, the time is right – SaaS has come of age in South...

Shifting focus from plans to outcomes

Load shedding is back on the cards and with this comes the possibility that with your systems may not be able to handle the fluctuating levels of power as well as the sudden dips and spikes, which could ultimately lead to system and hardware failure. The real question...

Five big data myths dispelled

With all the hype around big data it’s not surprising that people are confused, says Gary Allemann, MD of Master Data Management. This article debunks five common misconceptions that are creating confusion, and is supported by a comprehensive big data analytics e-book...

Medhold Medical revamps comms infrastructure

South African managed ICT service provider, Integr8, has successfully completed a comprehensive revamp of core communications infrastructure for its client, Medhold Medical, an established service provider in the healthcare industry. The result has been a seamless...

Keeping cloud computing secure

Cloud computing is secure. There, I’ve said it. It may sound like an obvious thing to say for someone who works at a company specialising in ensuring a smooth, reliable and secure network, but there are still misconceptions about cloud security, says Martin Walshaw,...

Look before making the cloud leap

Cloud storage is attractive for many reasons. The amounts of data – e-mails, video, documents, images and so on – that businesses produce is astronomical, and storing this data in a data centre can be prohibitively expensive. Cloud storage costs a fraction of this, a...

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