5G the fastest-growing subscription type in sub-Saharan Africa
The November 2023 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report projects that total mobile subscriptions in sub-Saharan Africa will grow at 3 percent annually from 940-million in 2023 to 1,1-billion in 2029. 5G will be the fastest-growing subscription type between 2023 and...
Proxy macOS Trojan uncovered
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NGOs could buckle under lockdown pressure
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Cell C on track for RAN decommissioning
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Partnership aims to reduce youth unemployment by 10%
As South Africa's youth unemployment rate reaches 46,3%, Accenture has announced a partnership with Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) that aims to give youth increased access to the economy and address youth unemployement at scale. "South Africa has 7.2 million...
Cyberattacks and threats continue to break records
We should be prepared for a further increase in cyberattacks, which could be partly down to major powers leaking cyber superweapons, according to Check Point Research. "We have long warned that organisations of all sizes are being bombarded by a global, fifth...
Huge growth for global public cloud services market
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 40,7% in 2020 to total $64,3-billion, up from $45,7-billion in 2019, according to Gartner. Amazon retained the number one position in the IaaS market in 2020, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and...
Digital banking takes off
Over the last few years, millions of people worldwide turned to digital or app-only banks, choosing them over a traditional high-street financial institution. However, after the pandemic struck, digital banks witnessed an influx of new clients, as mobile banking...
Chief compliance officers must expand role
As demands on the compliance function grow more intense, chief compliance officers (CCOs) must proactively embrace new leadership responsibilities for their role and reposition how their function is thought of among stakeholders, according to Gartner. Gartner has...
Consequential accountability to drive leadership diversity
To achieve and sustain diversity among leadership benches, HR organisations must adopt consequential accountability, which meaningfully impacts behavior and outcomes for individual leaders, according to Gartner. Despite mounting external and internal pressures to...
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Bytes SI offers biometric keyboard solution
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