As cost pressures mount, consumers shift spend to essentials

South African consumers are adjusting their financial behaviour in response to ongoing cost pressures, with TransUnion's Q1 2026 Consumer Pulse Study revealing meaningful shifts in how households spend, save and manage credit. While many households remain under...

Memory and SSD shortage set to impact SA

The memory and SSD crisis is real – and it’s broader and faster‑moving than many in the IT industry expect. This is the stark warning from Craig Nowitz, CEO of Syntech, who recently returned from the Hong Kong electronics shows and a week of factory visits in China....

Your next smartphone could be powered by a recycled toaster

For the past 20 years, the consumer electronics playbook has been simple: make it smaller, make it faster, and seal it shut. Manufacturers utilised industrial adhesives, proprietary screws, and integrated designs to create sleek devices that were virtually impossible...

SA family businesses outperform global peers

In a time of uncertainty and rapid change, South African family businesses are showing exceptional resilience and growth – with many reporting double-digit sales growth in 2025. PwC’s South African Family Business Survey reveals what truly sets top-performing family...

Paratus SA inaugurates vendor neutral teleport

Representing the Group's largest investment in South Africa to date and built to serve Sub-Saharan Africa, the newly constructed Paratus South Africa Teleport - The Goedehoop Teleport in Doornkloof, Pretoria - has entered the final stages of completion. As the...

NAPAfrica achieves 4Tbps milestone

TikTok has joined Internet eXchange Point (IXP) NAPAfrica's growing community. At the same time, NAPAfrica announced a significant milestone in its growth journey by surpassing the 4Tbps (Terabits per second) traffic milestone. NAPAfrica reached the 3Tbps traffic...

Partnership aims to unlock sustainable African investment

The African Development Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to promote sustainable private sector development in Africa. The memorandum of understanding will help catalyse new...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter flight rendered in 3D

When NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took to the Martian skies on its third flight on April 25, the agency's Perseverance rover was there to capture the historic moment. Now NASA engineers have rendered the flight in 3D, lending dramatic depth to the flight as the...

Hackers thought to have scored $5m ransom payout

Colonial Pipeline is believed to have paid a ransom of almost $5-million to the hackers that shut down its networks this week. Although companies are discouraged from bowing to ransomware demands, it's believed that many of them pay up in order to get their systems...

AWS, Microsoft vie for top public cloud spot

The worldwide public cloud services market, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), System Infrastructure Software as a Service (SISaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), grew 24,1% year over year in 2020 with revenues totaling...

How SA users spend the time while devices update

Installing updates is considered a routine boring task and half of the respondents to a study commissioned by Kaspersky in April 2021 commonly snooze them. At the same time however, four-in-ten (47%) respondents in South Africa admit that the time spent waiting for...

April sees resurgence in ransomware attacks

For the first time, AgentTesla has ranked second in the Check Point Research (CPR) Global Threat Index, while the established Dridex trojan is still the most prevalent malware, having risen to the top spot in March after being seventh in February. This month, Dridex,...

Soshanguve youth set to launch his own laptop

Entrepreneur Mpumelelo Mahlangu has developed, and is about to launch, what he believes is the first-ever entry level South African laptop. The DTC400 is understood to be the first laptop launched by a South African township-based company and entrepreneur, competing...

NextNow unveils African e-hailing platform

NextNow, an African e-hailing company that aims to put the continent on the ride-sharing map, has launched its services in Johannesburg. Mlungisi Ntombela, head of operations: South Africa at NextNow, explains that the homegrown e-hailing service's competitive pricing...

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AccTech deploys Sage CRM for SEC

The Swaziland Electricity Company (SEC), the organisation responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Swaziland, has selected Sage CRM as a business enabler to help streamline their operations and customer service divisions. Sage...

Panda offers Cloud Office Protection v.6.70

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, has released Panda Cloud Office Protection (PCOP) version 6.70, featuring significant technological and functional improvements, to help SMBs combat the growing number of cyber-attacks they are experiencing. According to...

Fujitsu releases new PRIMERGY systems

Fujitsu has enabled businesses of all sizes to thrive in an age of exploding demand for applications, data and digital content with the introduction of its new generation of Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY Systems. This intelligent server backbone is the cornerstone of...

PCI-DSS compliance: now for everyone

With fraud and cybercrime proliferating, PCI-DSS compliance is an issue businesses of every size need to address, says Perry Hutton, regional director for Africa at Fortinet. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) has been in place for some time,...

Size immaterial when it comes to security

IT security has no respect for size. A hacking group can have hundreds or thousands of members globally, like anonymous, or just a handful, like the group that mounted the successful Eurograbber attacks against banks in 2012 – but in either case, the disruption to the...

RDB keeps Vodacom Mozambique up and running

RDB Consulting is ensuring that Vodacom Mozambique's databases enjoy maximum uptime. The Johannesburg-based database consulting specialist signed a two year contract with BCX Mozambique in April this year to provide monitoring and administration services for the...

SA’s lagging broadband requires action

South Africa currently ranks 123rd in terms of Internet download speed, with an average of 4.03 Megabits per second (Mbps). Furthermore, according to the Net Index results by broadband testing company, Ookla, the country ranks 63rd in cost per Mbps, and averages...

Plan for a successful data migration

Data integration and migration challenges arise every time an organisation moves to a new data system, or wishes to combine multiple data systems, either internally or as a result of a merger, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management. This is a significant...

IP VPNs – the evolution of communications

Choosing a technology partner provider for your voice, video and data traffic can be complex. This is particularly relevant in business competitive environments where delays, information loss and downtime are truly worst case scenario, says Dean Young, senior sales...

HR technology reinforces management

Technology to regulate human resources (HR) remains one of the fastest growing and most relevant within business management solution development. Today, the emphasis is on big data management and analytics to strengthen operations – with security the first priority....

Angular Developer (CH978)

Our client, a company that provide various HR Solutions is looking for an experienced Angular Developer to assist with the designing of products that are easy to use and provides value to the business.As an Angular Developer, you'll work with other team members like...

Senior Front End Developer (Angular 2) (CPT Hybrid)

ENVIRONMENT:A dynamic Software Service Delivery Provider seeks the coding expertise of a Senior Front End Developer whose core role will be to develop and maintain a high-quality single-page application using Angular 2. A strong focus on test automation and a...

Angular Developer (CH978) – Gauteng Johannesburg

Our client, a company that provide various HR Solutions is looking for an experienced Angular Developer to assist with the designing of products that are easy to use and provides value to the business.As an Angular Developer, you'll work with other team members like...

Senior Java Developer

Purpose of the role:We are seeking a Java Spring Developer to join our dynamic development team.As an essential member of our technology department, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining Java Spring applications.Your expertise will...

Snr Data Analyst

We are looking for a dynamic Data Analyst to join our team...OverviewThis role is individually accountable for turning data into actionable insights. The incumbent will be responsible for providing first-line analysis and support and escalation of data reconciliation...

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Desired Skills: Strong knowledge of Scrum Solid Agile coaching experience Strong Understanding of software development project management Desired Work Experience: 5 to 10 years Desired Qualification Level: Degree About The Employer: - Key deliverables: Scrum Master...

Senior Java Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg

Purpose of the role:We are seeking a Java Spring Developer to join our dynamic development team.As an essential member of our technology department, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining Java Spring applications.Your expertise will...

Snr Data Analyst – Western Cape Cape Town

We are looking for a dynamic Data Analyst to join our team...OverviewThis role is individually accountable for turning data into actionable insights. The incumbent will be responsible for providing first-line analysis and support and escalation of data reconciliation...

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