Retailers diversify to get a slice of shopping season bonanza
South African retailers are expected to adopt diversification strategies such as adding new product lines and new service offerings to win a bigger share of an expected R60,4-billion in retail spending over November and December. This Black Friday and festive season...
Bare minimum of companies stuck to carbon emission reduction targets
Despite a responsibility to mitigate the crisis with emissions reductions in their operations and supply chains, companies have not made much progress in comprehensively measuring and reducing their emissions over the past year, according to a new study by CO2 AI and...
Africa gets $80m in development finance
The G7 DFIs, the IFC, the private sector arm of the African Development Bank, EBRD and the European Investment Bank have committed to investing $80-billion in the private sector over the next five years to support sustainable economic recovery and growth in Africa....
SA workers start returning to the office
Since the easing of the hard lockdown restrictions, thousands of workers have returned to the office in towns and cities across South Africa. New data from IWG shows that visits to its South African centres are up by 25% since the beginning of January. Research by IWG...
Game source code stolen in Electronic Arts hack
Source code of some popular Electronic Arts games has already been offered for sale of the darknet, following a breach of the games company’s systems last week. The company has been quick to reassure players that their security has not been compromised. Electronic...
Spoofing attacks have doubled in recent months
Email spoofing involves the creation of fake emails that seem legitimate to trick users into taking action that will benefit the attacker. This can be downloading malware, providing access to systems or data, offering up personal details, or transferring money. Often...
Young scientists fly the SA flag at Hong Kong science fair
Innovative South African scientific research about detecting and classifying cardiac arrhythmia and prosthesis control using muscle impulses will compete against other high-tech studies in the 2021 Virtual Global Youth Science and Technology Bowl (GYSTB) Science Fair...
Wesbank systems are back online
WesBank's systems are back up and running. Ghana Msibi, CEO of WesBank Motor, confirms that a resolution to the technical issues experienced last week has been found and systems have resumed. "Our IT teams are still hard at work to ensure a seamless transition and...
5G smartphone, macrocell base station semiconductor market to hit $260bn
Two new forecasts from International Data Corporation (IDC) shed light on the sizable opportunity for 5G-related semiconductors in smartphones and macrocell base transceiver stations (BTSs) for the period 2021–2025. Over the next five years the cumulative market size...
Cellular IoT shipments exceeded 300m units
Berg Insight estimates that global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 14% to a new record level of 303-million in 2020. Annual revenues grew slower at 8% to reach $3,4-billion. While the Covid-19 pandemic affected demand in several major application areas in...
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Infor unveils new Rhythm platform
Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70 000 customers, has announced Infor Rhythm, a cloud-based e-commerce platform. Infor Rhythm is built on a complete and proven e-commerce platform and now complemented with beautiful designs...
The cloud is here to stay
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DVT, FICO bring Blaze Advisor to SA
Specialist software and services company DVT and leading analytics software company FICO have announced a strategic partnership that will see DVT market, implement and support FICO’s business rules management system Blaze Advisor in South Africa. The partnership comes...
globetom named a Red Hat Premier partner
South African ICT provider globetom has been appointed as a Red Hat Premier Business Partner; a status held by only a handful of local companies. As a premier partner which specialises in Red Hat Infrastructure, globetom is regarded as an expert business partner...
How big is big data?
A client recently complained that he was struggling with a reporting requirement because his technology platform could not cope with big data. Upon investigation it was found that he was dealing with approximately 20 million rows from a relatively small table, says...
Smart collaboration could help government
Private-public sector collaboration, underpinned by smart technologies, stand to significantly reduce South Africa’s crime levels, says IBM South Africa. Speaking from GovTech 2013, IBM South Africa sales lead Hamilton Ratshefola noted that the most recent crime...
Intervate, AvePoint introduce SharePoint kit
Intervate, South Africa’s foremost provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) and Microsoft SharePoint solutions, has collaborated with AvePoint, the leader in governance, compliance, and management solutions for social enterprise collaboration platforms, to...
IS Mozambique supports prepaid roll-out
Internet Solutions Mozambique has embarked on the implementation of the second phase of state electricity supplier Electricidade de Moçambique’s (EDM) extensive metering and vending upgrade. Following the successful roll-out of the first phase in Maputo and surrounds,...
Dell delivers new slim workstation
Dell has launched a thin, light 15-inch true mobile workstation, the Dell Precision M3800, to its family of the world’s most powerful mobile workstations. Merging beautiful design in an ultra-thin form factor with workstation-class performance, Dell has delivered an...
Avaya offers business collaboration solution
Avaya recently announced a breakthrough in communications-enabled applications development designed to drive the next wave of transformation in business collaboration. With the release of a new development platform, Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, makes it easy...
Senior Java Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg Region
An international FinTech client is looking for Senior Java Developer to perform high-complexity analysis, design, development and unit testing of software applications. Key Requirements 5+ years' experienceBachelor's Degree /...
Project Manager (Wits RHI) – Gauteng Berea
Main purpose of the job:To provide oversight, high-level planning, and project management support in ensuring the efficient operation of the HE2AT CenterTo provide HUB Administration within the [Email Address Removed]ifically, to provide support on grants and contract...
3rd Line IT Support – Western Cape Cape Town Region
Red Ember is looking for a 3rd in line Information Technologist to join a dynamic company in Cape Town near Century City. Purpose of role: To ensure network stability and uptime.To manage the local networking environment ensuring that it is patched and...
PHP Developer
To analyse, design, develop, maintain, and support all aspects of the Company's Core System and the Nashua Enterprise Portal (NEP). Application Requirements• Assist business with requirements for system development through user and 3rd Party interactions, workshops,...
PHP Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
To analyse, design, develop, maintain, and support all aspects of the Company's Core System and the Nashua Enterprise Portal (NEP). Application Requirements• Assist business with requirements for system development through user and 3rd Party interactions, workshops,...
User Experience Designer (UX Designer) at Accenture
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance public...
User Experience Designer (UX Designer) at Accenture – Western Cape Cape Town
About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance public...
Software Site Support Engineer
To supports and promotes research and human capital development through funding, the provision of National Research Facilities and science outreach platforms and programmes to the broader community in all fields of science and technology, including natural sciences,...
Azure Data Engineer
ENVIRONMENT:A prominent multinational Digital Solutions Tech firm is in search of a skilled Azure Data Engineer with 5 to 7 years of expertise in designing and modeling databases for data warehousing and business intelligence purposes, encompassing relational database...
SQL Database Administrator/DBA (EE) Hybrid (TB)
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