Supply chain planning threatened by AI hype and ‘agent washing’

Agentic AI is reshaping the supply chain planning landscape, but hype and “agent washing” are creating real risks for organisations under pressure to deliver results, according to Gartner. Supply chain planning (SCP) leaders who focus on proven use cases, strengthen...

AI spend grows 47% – and more is expected

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,59-trillion in 2026 - a 47% increase year-over-year - according to Gartner. “Through the next several years, the need for capacity will make AI infrastructure - including AI-optimised IaaS, AI-optimised servers, AI...

How to raise funds, then scale your African start-up

Kathy Gibson reports from Everything AI and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – For many African start-ups, their biggest challenge is not coming up with solutions or creating systems that work – it is in scaling them effectively. Once the excitement of the initial idea and...

African startups look to new investors

Kathy Gibson reports from AI Everything and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – Africa’s exciting and innovative start-ups are attracting interest from investors in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Investors from these regions are arguably more aligned to the continent’s...

Decline, then growth, forecast for campus switches

Well in excess of $100-billion will be spent on campus switches over the next five years, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group, which says that after three strong years in campus switch sales it foresees a significant correction in 2024, followed by a...

African gains boost Vodacom results

Vodacom has announced that, for the quarter ended 31 December 2023, group revenue increased 26,8% to R38,9-billion, positively impacted by the acquisition of Vodafone Egypt. Group service revenue growth including Vodafone Egypt on a pro-forma basis was 8,8%, at the...

Butterfly inspires young Free State scientist

The graceful flight of a butterfly inspired a Free State learner to undertake a research project into the how of its flying. Amy Pastors watched a butterfly fly past and asked herself if the grace and beauty on display was really as simple and effortless as it looked....

Malicious code spreads through WhatsApp mod

Kaspersky has discovered a malicious version of a popular WhatsApp messenger mod (unofficial modification of the app) called FMWhatsapp. The mod spreads the Triada mobile Trojan, which downloads other Trojans and can launch ads, issue subscriptions, and intercept a...

International travel largely on hold despite May uptick

The biggest crisis in the history of tourism continues into a second year. Between January and May, international tourist arrivals were 85% below 2019 levels (or a 65% drop on 2020), UNWTO data shows. Despite a small uptick in May, the emergence of Covid-19 variants...

Blue Label reports year-end earnings

Blue Label Telecoms has reported core headline earnings for the year ended 31 May 2021 of R788-million, equating to core headline earnings of 89.65 cents per share, of which R763-million related to continuing operations and R25-million to discontinued operations. Core...

July unrest still reverberating through SA’s technical goods sector

South Africa's technical goods retail sector continues to feel the aftershocks of the looting and rioting in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July. That's according to a GfK Lighthouse study of the impact of the unrest on technical goods sales in South Africa which uses...

Global PC sales still rising

After impressive sales figures in 2020 and a record-breaking first quarter of 2021, global PC shipments continued rising in the second quarter of the year. According to data presented by StockApps.com, the total number of PCs shipped in Q2 2021 hit 71,6-million...

Lunga Siyo is new Telkom Consumer CEO

Telkom has appointed Lunga Siyo as the new CEO of Telkom Consumer effective 1 October 2021. Siyo will take over from Serame Taukobong when Taukobong assumes the position of group CEO-designate. Siyo joined Telkom just over three years ago and led the introduction of...

R30bn left on the table by etailers with poor CX

South Africa's ecommerce market has increased substantially since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, but its potential to double by a further 100% to 5,6% of the total retail market is possible if etailers fix issues with their online CX. This is the key finding of...

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Kawasaki rolls out WiFi from Ruckus

Ruckus Wireless has announced that it has been selected to supply high-speed Ruckus Smart WiFi products to Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corporation, a subsidiary of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. The new high-speed Ruckus Smart WiFi system was installed to support...

MicroStrategy named top BI vendor

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Symantec NetBackup tackles data issues

Symantec has announced the latest version of its NetBackup solution, bringing new functionality to protect the largest scale VMware-based environments as enterprises move to a software-defined data centre architecture. NetBackup 7.6 is the only backup product designed...

Technology and business in 2014

Technology in 2014 will play a bigger part in business across industries irrespective of business size. It is becoming a business decision that enables operations to deliver against business strategies, irrespective of how mature or complex the organisations are, says...

Interactive Intelligence releases results

Interactive Intelligence, a global provider of software and services designed to improve the customer experience, has announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December, 2013. “2013 was an excellent year for Interactive intelligence,”...

Keeping home WiFi networks secure

There is more than one type of burglary that can affect a home. The one we are most used to usually involves kicking in the door; the less familiar one involves compromising a computer. And if the intruder in this scenario has compromised a wireless network, users...

Non-repudiation: the new security buzzword

Most fraud is committed by a company’s employees - the old cliché “It must have been an inside job” is right on the mark. Non-repudiation is the buzzword for security systems that discourage such practices and, if a fraud is committed, that enable companies to...

One in a million milestone for Stordoc

Stordoc, a secure electronic FICA & document management solution, recently achieved a milestone after the 1-millionth document was uploaded at the Tygervalley branch of Symington and De Kock Attorneys in relation to a home loan. It was uploaded by Hesna Gerber and...

2014 the year for growth for SMEs

If predictions by industry analysts prove accurate, 2014 is set to be a bumper year for the small-to-medium sized enterprise. Executive management at Network Alliance say the growing relevance of the cloud, along with the increasing need for security and connectivity...

Rdio, Shazam extend music discovery to SA

Digital music service Rdio and media engagement company Shazam have announced an international expansion of their music discovery partnership to include South Africa. South African users of the Free and Encore version of the Shazam App for iOS and Android are now able...

Geospatial (Back-End) Developer – Gauteng Pretoria Region

Develop on cloud and KubernetesParticipate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debuggingWrite clean code to develop functional web applicationsTroubleshoot and debug applicationsPerform UI tests to optimize performanceCollaborate with Front-end...

Scrum Master (CH994) – Western Cape Kuils River

Our client, in the Payments and Lending industry, has a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned Scrum Master who will be responsible for the facilitation of workflows within one or two software development teams to ensure that they deliver on their respective commitments...

C#.Net Software Engineer (CPT Remote) – Western Cape Woodstock

ENVIRONMENT:A young & dynamic EdTech startup seeks the coding talents of a C#.Net Software Engineer to join its team where your core role will be to successfully develop, deliver, and maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation,...

DevOps Consultant 2709 – Gauteng Centurion

Large, international Automotive client actively looking for highly competent DevOps Consultant Product / Feature Team Information (if applicable)Manual Warehouse (MAN)ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:· SAP Technical Operations· Incident Management (IM)· Change Management...

Software Developer

An exciting opportunity for an intermediate developer to join a growing company specialising in the utility and energy management space. You will be responsible for building software by writing code, as well as modifying existing code to fix...

Senior Data Engineer

The Data Engineer skill is required to enable the data lifecycle within, namely the ability to integrate data between the source system (golden/trusted) and the target database, hence providing good quality data by applying the necessary framework/s and governance to...

Control Systems Engineer

Electrical / Electronic Degree or Diploma This Dynamic and Rapidly Expanding Consulting Engineering Organisation in the Oil & Gas and Mining Sectors, require a Junior Control Systems Engineer to do the following : Background in process plant engineering and...

Mid/Senior Level C# Developer

Are you an experienced developer looking to join a dynamic team in the heart of Sandton? We are seeking a skilled developer with 3-5 years of experience in C# to join an innovative fintech company. If you're passionate about writing clean code, have a strong...

Software Developer – KwaZulu-Natal Kloof

An exciting opportunity for an intermediate developer to join a growing company specialising in the utility and energy management space. You will be responsible for building software by writing code, as well as modifying existing code to fix...

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