Can AI help to boost African economies?
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa 2024 – As the world’s economies become increasingly digital, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to play a major role in boosting GDPs around the globe. Lavina Ramkissoon, UN University Centre of Policy Research, points out...
AI and a question of ethics
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa Morocco 2024 - When it comes to using artificial intelligence (AI), ethics is a key issue, and organisations are advised start formulating clear policies around trusted and responsible AI. Rohan Patel, senior vice-president:...
Fujitsu, MIT develop AI that recognises unseen data
Fujitsu and the Centre for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) headquartered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have achieved an important milestone in a joint initiative to deliver improvements in the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) models. The...
Challenging year-end for MEA PCs
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations and tablets, is expected to suffer a year-on-year decline in shipments of 8,3% in shipments for the final quarter of 2021, according to...
Emotet is back, 140k victims hit
Check Point Research (CPR) warns of potential ransomware attacks, as it sees samples of Emotet fast-spreading via Trickbot. Since Emotet's takedown by law enforcement, CPR estimates there have been 140 000 victims of Trickbot, across 149 countries in only 10 months....
When should you ignore an instruction from your boss?
As organisations around the world spend ever more on cybersecurity tools, cyber criminals are increasingly using a simple yet effective way to access organisations' data or money - business email compromise (BEC) or CEO fraud. International security awareness...
This is what the future looks like for customers and consumers
The Future of Customers and Consumers predictions for 2022 from International Data Corporation (IDC) show that technology will be the cornerstone of brands that try to reestablish relationships with customers and consumers in a new version of the physical and digital...
Trust must be hard-wired into the business
There is an old saying about trust: it takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair, writes Tom Rosamilia, senior vice-president of IBM Software. The saying is spot on, and there are critical lessons here for all of us in business, particularly those...
Middle East and Africa fertile ground for the growth of super-apps
From ride-hailing services to grocery delivery, and financial services such as buy-now-pay-later to microfinancing, super-apps development in the Middle East and Africa is emerging fast as the region proves to be a potentially fertile ground for its growth. In a study...
Rapid growth for PCD market in southern Africa
Southern Africa's personal computing devices (PCD) market, which comprises desktops, notebooks, workstations and tablets, recorded year-on-year (YoY) growth of 44,4% in Q3 2021. The latest Quarterly PCD Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC) reveals that...
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Symantec opens Customer Management Centre
Symantec has established and opened a new Customer Management Centre (CMC) to provide a world-class experience for its customers across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Symantec will make it easier for customers and partners to interact with the company by bringing...
Big data is pointless without analytics
Talk of “big data” challenges is making a lot of noise. Data is growing at an almost unmanageable pace. In fact, data types and sources of all kinds – from enterprise resource planning or software, server logs and social media, and even unstructured data from voice...
CA Technologies integrates with Samsung Knox
CA Southern Africa has unveiled CA Technologies’ solutions aimed at securing the mobile enterprise and accelerating innovation to capture growth in the global mobile economy. CA Mobile Device Management (CA MDM) is to be compatible with Samsung Knox - Samsung’s...
Avoiding the common failure points of ITSM
Many organisations embark on service management improvement programmes, particularly with regard to IT service management (ITSM), only for the projects to fail to deliver the anticipated benefits, says Edward Carbutt, executive director at Marval South Africa. This...
Maximise CCTV solutions using the right HDD
Closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras have long been a core component of security solutions for retailers and businesses. However, as security in the home has become more of a concern and technology evolution has made CCTV technology more affordable, many...
The ultrabook: where laptop meets tablet
There can be no doubt that the emergence of the tablet changed the face of computing dramatically, offering unprecedented levels of portability, intuitive touch screen technology and the ability to complete certain tasks on the move with ease, says Farhad Alli, Dell...
ARM, NetClean fight child exploitation
Cybercrime is not new, and organisations across the globe have tools and systems in place to defend their networks against these crooks. However, there are far worse offenders out there. Ones that aren’t interested in stealing your money or intellectual property, they...
FAW SA roll out SAP solution
FAW SA will implement 4most Enterprise Manager for Automotive (OEM and DMS), powered by SAP Business One, to assist them with current operational needs and future growth expectations. As the local representative of FAW Group, China’s oldest and largest vehicle...
Customer, employee retention key for tourism
Taking a peek into the hospitality and leisure industry it looks like it is in much better fettle going deeper into 2014, with customer loyalty being the number one issue to aim at, says Nicolette Kruger, GM of NFS Technology, the software solutions company which...
Getting e-mail to be POPI compliant
Most businesses are becoming aware of the implications of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act that will regulate the manner in which personal information is processed, says Craig Freer, head of Product at Vox Telecom. The Act requires, among other...
Tax Technical Consultant
Duties & Responsibilities Manage Client Queries: Efficiently handle queries from clients, providing timely and accurate responses.SARS Liaison: Facilitate the escalation and finalisation of client queries with SARS. Act as the primary point of contact for...
Data Manager (Wits ILTBRU) – Eastern Cape Gqebera
Main purpose of the job:Coordinate the data processing and management activities of research projects such as developing standard operating procedures, overseeing data capturing, and providing analysis output and data quality controlLocation:Jose Pearson TB Hospital,...
Senior Control Software Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town
The Senior Control Software Engineer plans, implements, modifies, administers and evaluates Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software and systems for the company-Mid telescope. As a senior member of the team, they work with the company Observation Monitoring and...
Application Analyst at Electrolux – Gauteng Benoni
Reports To - IT ManagerFunctional Area- ITDivision-Sales Area Southern Africa YourRole Understand Sage X3 processes in Sales, Purchasing and Distribution (Manufacturing Advantageous) Fundamental accounting knowledge. Understand Business processes used in South Africa....
Tax Technical Consultant – Gauteng Menlyn
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Application Developer
Are you looking to grow in one of the leading B2B services, trading and distribution companies?Then this on site role is for you!My client is looking for a Application Developer to develop, test, document and implement application/systems using the latest version of...
Information Security Officer
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IT Support Analyst
Reportsto Operational Manager -ITEmployee Experience Lead ZAFunctionalArea - ITDivision- IT BA EA YourRole The Technical Support Engineer main role is to ensure proper IT operations so that end users can accomplish business tasks. This includes resolving network...
IT Service Delivery Manager
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Application Developer – Gauteng Gauteng
Are you looking to grow in one of the leading B2B services, trading and distribution companies?Then this on site role is for you!My client is looking for a Application Developer to develop, test, document and implement application/systems using the latest version of...
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