Privacy predictions for 2023
This year we will witness the formation of an even more diverse market for behaviour tracking due to local law enforcement. Moreover, smartphones will take over traditional paperwork and the idea of a metaverse will become part of our reality. These are excerpts from...
Intel data centre processors drive next-gen innovations
Dubbing it one of the most important product launches in its history, Intel has unveiled its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), the Intel Xeon CPU Max Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Intel Data Centre GPU Max Series...
E-commerce cements its place in SA retail
E-commerce, and specifically in the retail sector, has broken barriers regardless of the global pandemic's lockdown restrictions. Global business-data platform Statista believes that the South African market will reach just over R62-billion this year, and show a...
SA ramps up locally-developed testing capacity
The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), have made seven funding awards to local companies, organisations and researchers in order to ramp up the country's ability to...
What pre-installed adware means for mobile users
Following analysis of attacks on mobile devices, Kaspersky has uncovered that 14,8% of its users who were targeted by malware or adware in 2019 suffered a system partition infection, making the malicious files undeletable. In addition, pre-installed default...
Cell C Innovation Challenge relaunches
After a brief hiatus due to the Covid-19 lockdown, the Cell C Innovation Challenge, relaunched on 3 July 2020. The program, aimed at providing opportunities for SMEs and entrepreneurs in the ICT sector, was launched back in October of 2019 in partnership with the...
Blue Label Telecoms expects improved earnings
Blue Label Telecoms has published an initial trading statement for the year ended 31 May 2020, alerting shareholders that basic, headline and core headline earnings per share are expected to increase by more than 20% in comparison to the previous year, when a loss was...
Working from home likely to stick post-Covid
Experts around the world have been advocating for increased workplace flexibility and work-from-home arrangements for a long time. In fact, flexible work has been linked to improved employee engagement by the likes of Gallup, Gartner and other highly respected...
TikTok withdraws from Hong Kong
TikTok plans to cease its operations in Hong Kong, following China's imposition of a new security law. The national security law has raised concerns about data privacy. TikTok has gone on record in the past saying it wouldn't comply with requests from the Chinese...
Smart home devices set for decline
Spending on smart home devices in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is expected to decline 6% year on year in H2 2020, according to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC). The global technology research and consulting firm's Quarterly Smart Home...
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Financial institution uses Quintica solution
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Mazda wins with Oracle SPARC T4 servers
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Genesys One to launch in SA
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Aviat provides services to MTN Ghana
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F5 announces new security offerings
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Pick n Pay uses SUSE Linux solution
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A business case for data governance
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BlackBerry, Trend Micro boost security
BlackBerry has announced that it is working with Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cloud security, to expand the protection it already provides to BlackBerry customers against malware and privacy issues related to third-party applications. As part of a...
Westcon vendor tops independent report
Value-added distributor Westcon SA’s security division’s vendor partner Kaspersky Lab has been ranked as a leader in the market of endpoint security solutions by Forrester Research. According to Westcon Security’s Andrew Potgieter, Kaspersky Lab’s corporate solution...
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Understanding and documenting the needs of the business for new systems or changes to existing ones. Facilitating, co-ordinating and managing workshops with business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure the envisaged solution meets the needs of the business....
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