Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...

IBM unveils next chapter of watsonx and AI

IBM has announced several new updates to its watsonx platform as well as upcoming data and automation capabilities designed to make artificial intelligence (AI) more open, cost-effective and flexible for businesses. "We firmly believe in bringing open innovation to...

Microsoft SA invests R1,3bn in SMMEs, youth

Kathy Gibson reports - Microsoft is making about R1,3-billion available in an equity equivalence agreement with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) for a fund supporting skills and capability development and enterprise development for youth and...

NFC-ready PoS shipments reached 67,2m in 2021

According to a new research report from Berg Insight, the market for NFC-ready point of sale (PoS) terminals continued to show strong momentum in 2020 with annual shipments reaching an estimated 67,2-million units worldwide. The attach rate for NFC was highest in...

Poorest of the poor are still offline despite Covid connectivity boost

An estimated 37% of the world's population - or 2,9-billion people - have still never used the Internet. New data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), also...

Online Cyber Week sales hit record highs

In 2021, global online sales hit an all-time high of $275-billion, up 2% compared to 2020. This is among the findings from Salesforce's annual Cyber Week report, which analyses shopping data from over 1-billion shoppers on the Salesforce Customer 360 platform and...

Black Friday drives buy now pay later shopping

Buy now pay later online sales this Black Friday and Cyber Monday were triple those recorded in 2021, driven overwhelmingly by South African women. "By 10am on Black Friday, sales value had already surpassed Black Friday 2020. By the end of Cyber Monday, sales value...

How African governments can ignite innovation-based growth

The digital industrial revolution has the potential to unleash a surge of innovation that could transform industries and improve well-being across the Africa region. However, for nations to compete in the new globalisation environment, they need to set their sights on...

2021 Africa Investment Forum postponed

The three-day 2021Africa Investment Forum, scheduled to start today in Abidjan, has been postponed until further notice. The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, comments: "The Africa Investment Forum is the premier investment...

WISPs and their role in the connectivity economy

Average revenues for Internet service providers (WISP) who responded to the Wireless Access Provider's Association (WAPA) survey (76% of all members) exceed R3-billion, employing 2 785 people and serving more than 200 424 home and business customers. The vast...

Vulnerabilities affecting 150 HP printer models uncovered

HP Inc has issued patches that fix security vulnerabilities that cyber security provider F-Secure discovered in over 150 of the vendor's multifunction printer (MFP) products. According to research published today by F-Secure, attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities...

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Citrix XenMobile boosts enterprise mobility

Citrix recently announced new security and feature enhancements to the Citrix XenMobile solution. The new release empowers organisations in highly regulated industries, such as government agencies, to embrace device choice, improve productivity with quick access to...

SAP Business Suite sees market growth

SAP Business Suite software, powered by SAP HANA, continues to experience strong market momentum. Since its launch in January 2013, SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA has enabled customers to run their businesses in realtime by bringing together business...

CommVault protects cloud data

CommVault’s Simpana 10 software platform has become the data protection platform of choice for more than 200 certified service providers, which provides cloud solutions to millions of client systems worldwide and protects hundreds of petabytes of data. The company...

NSA surveillance hype must not be ignored

Last year, when Edward Snowden dropped the revelation that the United States National Security Agency was peering into the private data of individuals and companies, the world sat up and took notice. All the hype that security companies had been generating over the...

Rectron wins at D-Link awards

At a recent awards ceremony in Rome, Italy, D-Link, a global leader in design, manufacture and marketing of advanced networking, broadband, digital, voice and data communications acknowledged its channel partners in the annual Distributor Excellence Awards. A major...

Cloudgate ends 40-year reign of desktop PC

Desktop computers have become a drain on the IT resources of organisations. “An IT department has a primary function: to deliver applications to end-users. Everything else - security, uptime, backups, support and maintenance - are important, but secondary to the...

Surge protection key for the SOHO

Lightening strikes, unstable power and voltage fluctuations are a common occurrence in South Africa, says Elrica Quick, APC specialist at Drive Control Corporation. Power surges and dips, as well as the massive voltage fluctuations caused by lightning, can damage...

Cloud bursting solves network overload

Research from World Wide Worx shows that e-commerce is growing at around 30% a year in South Africa, and that total spend on goods, services and Internet infrastructure is R59 billion. Although this is great news for business, we have to consider how servers will cope...

Orange joins EU ERP initiative

Orange Business Services has joined a European Union-sponsored initiative to play a key role in the development of new business intelligence and IT standards that are set to improve management tools used by the shipping industry. A key goal is to help shipping...

Technology trends yield to social trends

2014 will be far less about new technologies and much more about how existing technologies and trends are going to change the workplace and our social lives. That's the word from Richard Firth, serial entrepreneur and CEO of MIP Holdings. "Every year sees various...

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