Biometric security falls to AI-driven fraud

The systems designed to verify identity and secure financial transactions are rapidly becoming the weakest link in the fight against fraud, as new data reveals the scale of AI-driven impersonation across Southern Africa. According to the Smile ID 2026 Digital Identity...

Job requirements evolve as AI economy goes mainstream

Artificial intelligence (AI) exposure among South African professionals has shifted from niche to mainstream. This is one of the findings from the Pnet Job Market Trends Report for March, which includes an analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI) skills are...

Industrial AI moves into physical operations

AI is now delivering measurable operational benefits in use cases such as process automation, automated quality inspection, predictive maintenance, logistics, and energy forecasting says the latest Cisco State of Industrial AI Report. However, many organisations are...

Gen Z is more resentful of AI as adoption stagnates

Gen Z is growing increasingly angry about the role of artificial intelligence in their lives. A new Gallup survey by the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures shows that a generation once seen as AI’s early adopters is now sounding the alarm on its risks,...

Nvidia debuts Omniverse cloud services on Microsoft Azure

Automotive companies are transforming every phase of their product lifecycle -- evolving their primarily physical, manual processes into software-driven, AI-enhanced digital systems. To help them save costs and reduce lead times, Nvidia is announcing two new...

Irish Tech Challenge startups chosen

The Embassy of Ireland in South Africa, in partnership with Wits University's Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and Dogpatch Labs Ireland has selected five tech startups for...

Dell reports a record year

Dell Technologies has announced record financial results for its fiscal 2022 first quarter, with revenue up 12% to $24,5-billion. The company generated operating income of $1,4-billion, a 96% increase over the same period in the prior year, and non-GAAP operating...

Innovation and tech critical to get vaccines into hard-to-reach places

As South Africa's Covid-19 vaccination programme ramps up, with a target to vaccinate 41-million people by the end of March next year, health NGO Right to Care is deploying teams to vaccinate people living in hard-to-reach places in remote parts of the country. Dr...

Electronic payments at the epicentre of industry transformation

The financial-services industry is in the midst of a significant transformation, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Given the key role digitisation plays in the financial lives of more and more of the world's population, electronic payments are at the epicentre of...

Insights into Africa’s infrastructure finance

Infrastructure remains a top priority for economic and social development for Africa. The Africa Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI), which tracks the progress of infrastructure development across the continent, shows that sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest stock...

EMEA smartphone market retains shine despite lockdowns

The EMEA smartphone market grew to a first-quarter record of 93,06-million units, according to the latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). This was a 20,9% increase over 1Q20, while the value increase, at...

Top 10 security misperceptions

The Sophos Rapid Response team has compiled a list of the most commonly held security misperceptions they've encountered in the last 12 months while neutralizing and investigating cyberattacks in a wide range of organizations. These are the top 10 misperceptions,...

EU falls short on AI, blockchain investment

The European Union has an annual shortfall of up to €10-billion in investments that would be needed to keep it in the global artificial intelligence and blockchain race. Although it excels in research related to both technologies and has a large pool of digital talent...

SAP SAPPHIRE NOW 2021 an immersive virtual event

SAP SAPPHIRE NOW brings customers a truly immersive multimedia event through live presentations, digital showcases and the ability to network for SAP experts and fellow attendees. The free-to-attend virtual event kicks off on 2 June with a global keynote by SAP CEA...

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Oracle announces StorageTek T10000D

Continuing to drive new innovation into tape storage, Oracle today announced the StorageTek T10000D tape drive, the industry’s fastest, highest capacity tape drive, providing a breakthrough opportunity for cloud service providers to monetize faster than any other...

Oracle upgrades In-Memory Applications

With the ever-expanding volume of cost data within and across organisations, existing tools are often unable to perform complex cost analysis which prevents organisations from identifying optimal profit margins to help make informed cost management decisions. To...

The role of design in innovation

In the mobile, telephony and technological industry, we hear a lot about “innovation”. We are told that our products need to be innovative. We are told that we need to be and employ creative people to help us do this, says Larking Huang, country director, Huawei...

System 5 opts for CA ARCserve

IT services company, System 5 has selected CA ARCserve as the technology of choice for its backup and disaster recovery offering. System 5 boasts extensive experience in the delivery of managed backup solutions. The company identified CA ARCserve after an exhaustive...

Remote realtime data recovery from CSSI

Computer Storage Services (CSSI) has announced the release of its real time remote data recovery service. Now, should a client experience a data loss event, hard drive crash or data corruption, a CSSI engineer can remote log-in and recover the data onsite. CSSI has...

NetTraveler is back with new tricks

Kaspersky Lab researchers have announced a new attack vector of NetTraveler (also known as “Travnet”, “Netfile” or "Red Star" APT), an advanced persistent threat that has already infected hundreds of high profile victims in more than 40 countries. Known targets of...

Accounting for the value of data in business

While IT staff talk about "data as an asset" rather glibly in the boardroom, the value of digital information in an organisation is interpreted quite differently from the accounting department's perspective, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management (MDM)....

BDS bolsters colour printing with Impika

Following Xerox’s acquisition of France-based industrial inkjet manufacturer Impika, authorised Xerox distributor Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), has released the Impika iPrint Compact printer in South Africa. Impika technology will help Xerox compete in the...

Outsource service management infrastructure

There is a rising trend amongst tower companies across the African continent to outsource their service management portfolio. The question that begs answering however is why? Why would a business look to outsource such a key component of its organisation and what...

Aspect targets Africa’s oil distribution

Moving to target the burgeoning downstream oil distribution sector throughout Africa, Aspect Enterprise Solutions today underscores how the core functionality at the heart of its AspectCTRM trade and risk management system can help specialist African oil bulk...

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Requirements:Relevant IT Qualification advantageous.1yr or more Support experienceMicrosoft OS Experience essentialOffice 365 experience advantageousSQL experience advantageousValid driver's licenseOwn reliable transport essentialKey Performance Indicators:Provide 1st...

Software Developer C#.NET – Western Cape Parklands

Senior Full Stack Developer Required skills: C#. Net development MVC MS SQL Server Advantageous skills: Azure (Cloud development) jQuery, HTML5, CSS UML Agile and scrum Should be a team player, have attention to detail and is passionate about development. We only have...

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Design and implement robust, scalable, and optimally performing systems using Oracle-related technologies, according to provided specifications, standards and procedures, while ensuring compliance with the architectural standards and guidelines. RESPONSIBILITIES:...

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