Africa’s CEOs expect technology to impact how they create and deliver value
It is imperative for business leaders in Africa to reinvent their business models in the interest of corporate longevity, according to PwC, which says its latest report - Africa Business Agenda: Thriving in an age of continuous reinvention 2024 - indicates that 40% of...
Startups challenge incumbents like Nvidia in AI accelerator chips
Among the several innovations announced at Google I/O 2024, a key highlight was the release of the sixth-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) named Trillium. With its high energy efficiency and significantly higher peak compute performance, the new chip heightens...
SA users take to cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency adoption is on the rise in South Africa, according to Finder.com's latest Cryptocurrency Adoption Index. The study shows that 11% of South African adult Internet users, or an estimated 4,5-million people, owned cryptocurrency in the December survey, up...
What the future holds for our lifestyles
The year that has passed brought us closer to home than we've ever been. As we learned and felt the different speeds and volumes of change, we understood the fast rate we're moving towards the future, and the different feelings tied to it. So, what do these mean for...
Gartner see Q4 drop in PC shipments, but growth for the year
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 88,4-million units in the fourth quarter of 2021, a 5% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results by Gartner. This is the first year-over-year decline following six consecutive quarters of growth. For the...
Tech trends set to dominate business in 2022
Pressure from the global Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to embrace bold changes. Currently, digital transformation has a significant impact on organisations. A recent study forecast the digital transformation market will grow at a compound annual growth rate...
Smart tech critical for airline, airport success
While IT budgets have stayed largely flat in 2021, airport and airline CIOs are betting on technology to support their recovery from Covid-19, with a significant increase in spending on digitalisation and sustainability as key priorities by 2024. This is according to...
Global digital sales passed $1trn over the holiday season
While Cyber Week saw muted digital growth in 2021, early November and late December surges helped retailers break new sales records. Salesforce's 2021 Holiday Shopping Report, which analyses shopping data from over 1-billion shoppers on the Salesforce Customer 360...
Climate failure, social crises top global risks for 2022
Climate risks dominate global concerns as the world enters the third year of the pandemic. According to the Global Risks Report 2022, while the top long-term risks relate to climate, the top shorter-term global concerns include societal divides, livelihood crises and...
These were the top networking challenges in 2021
Responding to disruptions (45%) and accommodating new business needs (40%) have been cited in the report as the top network challenges during 2021. These are among the findings from Cisco's l Global Networking Trends Report, based on a survey of 1 534 IT professionals...
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Local businesses to see greater cloud cover
South Africa’s cloud services space has reached a new level. A reduction in the cost of data and reliability of data on fixed line and wireless media has driven more widespread utilisation of cloud services. Technology experts now believe the market has arrived at a...
Pitney Bowes South Africa offers MYpbVerify
South African consumers are relying more and more on credit. According to the National Credit Regulator (NCR), the number of credit-active consumers is now at 20,29-million, an increase of 0,4% compared to the previous quarter. Based on the growing number of...
Africell Holding acquires Orange Uganda
Africell Holding has signed an agreement with the Orange Group to acquire its majority stake in Orange Uganda. The transaction upon completion, following regulatory approval, would bring Africell’s portfolio to four operations with a total market potential of over...
Two-factor authentication is a must
The repercussions of an online attack could be detrimental to a business, with both financial as well as reputation loss at stake, says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO of ESET. With BYOD, mobility and cloud software becoming a standard for many companies, security should be...
SAP Africa drives tech in Maghreb region
SAP Africa has embarked upon a strategic initiative to facilitate conversation with key governmental, NGO and international funding institutions in specific developing economies across Africa. Having conducted similar engagements in Ghana and Nigeria this week’s...
Trend Micro launches attack info hub
Cybercriminals are becoming more aggressive and are diving deeper into victims’ networks to steal sensitive information. As targeted attacks continue to gain momentum, permeate the Internet and strike without warning, Trend Micro Incorporated, a global developer of...
Can you trust post-call surveys?
Post-call surveys are an essential part of the call centre manager’s toolkit - but, asks Bruce von Maltitz of 1Stream, can companies trust what the surveys are telling them? “Based on after-call surveys, many companies are far too complacent about how well they’re...
Ruckus launches SmartCell Gateway
Ruckus Wireless has unveiled the industry’s first carrier-class virtualised wireless LAN (WLAN) controller, the Ruckus virtual SmartCell Gateway (vSCG), designed to streamline the creation of highly scalable and resilient cloud-based wireless LAN (WLAN) services. The...
Smartphone design now key for consumers
Considering 80% of the world’s population is equipped with a mobile phone, with over 1-billion of these being smartphones, mobile communications technology has entrenched itself into modern day life. As these devices continue to become more integral to our day-to-day...
Is your MSP hindering cloud migration?
With cloud computing already entrenched and proven in some of the world’s most substantial companies (and equally entrenched among the world’s most savvy start-ups), South African businesses should be asking themselves a simple question: why isn’t more of my stuff in...
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CRM Developer at DAV – Gauteng Sandton
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