Nvidia accelerates Microsoft’s open Phi-3 Mini language models
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Shortened URLs harbour new threat
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Global energy storage industry primed to treble annual installations
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Massive growth for mobile contactless payments
A new report from Juniper Research has found that transaction volumes for mobile payments will grow from 26-billion in 2021 to 49-billion in 2023; representing a growth of 92%. Growth in mobile contactless transaction volumes will significantly exceed contactless card...
TymeBank in strategic partnership with TFG
TymeBank has entered into a strategic partnership with retail giant TFG (The Foschini Group) that will see the introduction of TymeBank financial products and services both instore and on digital platforms for the benefit of TFG's more than 26-million customers in...
Robust growth ahead for emerging device categories
The total value of three emerging categories of products - augmented and virtual reality headsets, smart home devices, and wearables - is expected to reach $369,6-billion by the end of this calendar year and swell to $524,9-billion by the end of 2025 according to new...
Passport power ranking shows widest ever gap in travel freedom
The latest results and research from the Henley Passport Index show how proliferating barriers to entry over the past 18 months of the pandemic have resulted in the widest global mobility gap in its 16-year history. Based on exclusive data from the International Air...
Operators can avoid 65% of operational costs with IP network automation
Nokia, in collaboration with Analysys Mason, reveals thatoperators can expect up to a 65% cost avoidance after implementing IP network automation across three operations categories. This is one of several key findings from Nokia's commissioned study. Network...
No evidence user data lost as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram come back online
Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up this morning, but the six-hour outage yesterday has left the world with more questions than answers. The company says there’s no evidence that user data was compromised. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
What you need to know about the new Draft Companies Amendment Bill
A new draft of the Companies Amendment Bill has been published. Although the Bill clarifies many important company law issues; several ambiguities related to the current Act remain. Madelein Burger, partner at Webber Wentzel, provides a snapshot of some of the key...
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Bytes SI boosts biometric security
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BT, Dolby transform conference calls
BT and Dolby Laboratories have announced the launch of BT MeetMe with Dolby Voice, an audio conferencing service that can dramatically transform one of business’ most essential, but problem-plagued daily activities - the conference call - by replicating the sound of...
The biggest mistakes call centres make
It’s a fact: a call centre can either be the best tool for improving customer relationships, or the thorn in the proverbial side, says Jed Hewson, director of 1Stream. After all, the contact centre is the “shop window” – it’s the first point of call when a customer...
Senwes migrates to Linux
When Senwes, one of the largest grain handling companies in the southern hemisphere, decided to upgrade its main data centre and disaster recovery site, it was looking for flexibility. The company required a flexible and scalable solution that would allow it to easily...
Etisalat, MasterCard celebrate partnership
Etisalat Group has celebrated an enduring partnership with MasterCard that has brought award-winning technology to the market at GITEX Technology Week. “Over the last few years, Etisalat has used GITEX as a platform to launch innovative solutions that are now being...
IS eases mobility risk, enables compliance
Internet Solutions (IS) this week announced the launch of its mobile device management (MDM) solution. IS MDM assists businesses with the management of the mobile devices that their employees are using to access company resources and information. As smartphone use...
Fujitsu simplifies business continuity
Fujitsu provides fast and consistent data recovery to minimise business downtime and enhance productivity with the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS Snapshot Manager (ESM), an optimised and fully integrated software solution for the ETERNUS DX disk storage family. ESM adds easy...
Seven reasons to start an online business
PayU, SA’s leading online payment solutions provider, has encouraged budding entrepreneurs to become their own boss. “Entrepreneurship is a viable career choice for young South Africans” says PayU CEO, Mark Chirnside. “It is with this in mind that PayU is encouraging...
Experian to acquire 41st Parameter
Experian has announced a definitive agreement to acquire 41st Parameter, the market leader in device identification technology and web fraud detection. 41st Parameter will strengthen Experian’s global web fraud detection and risk-based identity authentication...
Telemarketing is effective lead generation
Like e-mail marketing, telemarketing tends to get a bad rap, because when it is done incorrectly or badly, it can be a great annoyance with which business owners risk driving prospective customers away and even alienating their existing ones. Many naysayers might...
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