Nvidia takes over as most valuable company
On Tuesday, Nividia shares rose 3,6%, lifting its market value to $3,35-trillion and making it the world's most valuable public company, powering past Microsoft and Apple. Nvidia's success rest on its leadership in graphic processing units (GPUs) used to power the...
AI-enabled vision finds a home in warehouse operations
By 2027, 50% of companies with warehouse operations will leverage AI-enabled vision systems to replace traditional scanning-based cycle-counting processes, according to Gartner. AI-enabled vision systems are novel hyper-automation solutions that combine industrial 3D...
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...
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...
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Stratasys helps Whale cut lead times
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Analytics to improve banking, profitability
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Automation eases IFRS compliance burden
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Xpertek Contact, Turnstyle partner on WiFi
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Successful businesses will need video tech
Not many technologies have enjoyed such a fast-paced growth in the past few years as video conferencing – most noticeable as part of an overall unified communications platform. According to Nicolette Kruger, country manager of NFS Technology, the developer and...
Compliment business calls with SMS
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Education department endorses EOH initiative
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Security is no longer a catch-up game
Up until now, security has been mostly a catch-up game. A vulnerability is discovered, a patch is issued and applied, and so on and so forth. However, as with all catch-up games, it will inevitably fail. By the time a new threat has taken hold, or the vulnerability...
AccTech Systems wins Microsoft award
AccTech Systems today proudly announced that it has won the 2014 Microsoft 'Country Partner of the Year' award for South Africa. The company was honoured amongst a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of...
CA Southern Africa announces ARCserve UDP
CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies recently unveiled CA ARCserve Unified Data Protection (UDP). This is an easy-to-use solution providing cost-effective backup and Assured Recovery across mixed IT environments – helping businesses boost the...
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