Saffers are generally happy in love, but Gen Z is left out

As Valentine's Day approaches, a new Ipsos Love Life Satisfaction study reveals that South Africans continue to thrive in matters of the heart, with feeling loved and appreciated ranking as the nation's number one source of happiness – even as financial stress weighs...

Stark warning that AI could shut down critical infrastructure

Gartner predicts that, by 2028, misconfigured AI in cyber physical systems (CPS) will shut down national critical infrastructure in a G20 country. Gartner defines CPS as engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to...

Global technology spending set to hit $5,6trn this year

Global technology spending is forecast to grow by 7,8% in 2026 to reach $5,6-trillion, up from $5,2-trillion in 2025. According to Forrester’s Global Tech Market Forecast, 2025 To 2030, despite US tariffs most countries will see similar economic growth in 2026...

OADC buys seven data centres from NTT Data

Kathy Gibson reports - Open Access Data Centres (OADC), part of the WIOCC group of companies, has acquired seven South African data centres from NTT Data. The data centres, in Bryanston, Parklands, Cape Town, Umhlanga, Bloemfontein, Gqeberha and East London, were part...

Online privacy, cybersecurity awareness on a decline

The world's online privacy and cybersecurity awareness is declining, according to new research by NordVPN. Based on 25 analysed markets with the highest numbers of responses, people globally performed best in recognizing various online risks and how to avoid them...

Threat actors get creative, HP study finds

Threat actors are chaining different combinations of attacks together like Lego bricks to sneak past detection tools, according to HP's quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report. Based on data from millions of endpoints running HP Wolf Security, researchers...

The ongoing race for drones in the upper atmosphere

In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook then exited its similar project. And Alphabet has now dumped its...

Huge set to make a firm offer for Adapt IT shares

Adapt IT has confirmed that Huge Group intends to make a firm offer to acquire or any of its shares. The company has constituted independent board of directors, consisting of Craig Chambers, Oliver Fortuin, Zizipho Nyanga and Catherine Koffman for the purpose of the...

5G phones will account for 35% of sales in 2021

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users will total 1,5-billion units in 2021, a 11,4% growth year over year, according to Gartner. "In 2020,consumers reduced spending on smartphones but availability of new products, will see users drive significant uptick in...

Chinese smartphone market declines as Huawei loses ground

The smartphone market in Mainland China finished 2020 with 84-million units shipped in Q4 2020, declining 4% year-on-year. That meant for the full year, the China market declined 11% to arrive at just over 330-million units, as market recovery was stalled by the rapid...

CEOs prioritise employee well-being, worry about remote workforce

A top challenge for CEOs over the next few years will be in managing an "anywhere" workforce, according to a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study. CEOs of outperforming organisations - those who were in the top 20% for revenue growth of those surveyed -...

Xerox spins out three new businesses

Xerox Holdings is branching out and has set up three new businesses - Software, Financing and Innovation - aimed at delivering long-term growth in 2021 and beyond. The company has announced organisational changes to support the new businesses. "We are focused on...

Global cloud services market surges by $10bn in Q4

Cloud infrastructure services spending increased 32% to $39,9-billion in the last quarter of 2020, following heightened customer investment with the major cloud service providers and the technology channel. Total expenditure was over $3-billion higher than the last...

Massive rise in threats from fake learning platforms

As the pandemic continues and schools globally experience either renewed closures or pursue a hybrid model of learning (in-person and remote), the educational sector continues to attract the attention of cybercriminals on the Internet. From July to December 2020, 270...

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Kaspersky bundles security with WoW

Gamers can now take advantage of a special arrangement between Kaspersky Lab and Blizzard Entertainment. The two companies are working together to offer a software bundle that includes Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 (KIS) and World of Warcraft (WoW), the world’s...

Auditors demand good data governance

South African businesses are increasingly being prompted by their auditors to ensure they get their data governance act together since failure to do so, or do so successfully at this stage, derails the auditors’ ability to write them a clean bill of health, says...

Conduct appoints new COO

Following its recent appointment of industry veteran Richard Came, Conduct Telecommunications has again made a key appointment. Dimitri Moussa has joined Conduct as chief operating officer (COO) with immediate effect. He will take the company through its next phase of...

Dell unveils ProSupport Enterprise Suite

As enterprises face an increasingly complex and converged IT environment, they require a higher level of service to maintain and optimise performance. Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of its award-winning Dell ProSupport service that boasts an estimated 95%...

Fontera develops world-first soccer app

Fontera Digital Works, one of South Africa’s only independent development houses with an international footprint, has developed a innovative mobile soccer application for the iPhone and Android mobile devices called My Soccer Life. The application is aimed at the...

Interactive grows customer service in Africa

Interactive Intelligence is launching a year-long campaign to educate African enterprises on customer service best practice. Through a series of Webinars and in-house seminars, Interactive Intelligence aims to help African businesses improve their customer experience...

Panasonic introduces Toughbook, Toughpad

Syntech, a South African based IT hardware distributor, and Panasonic, one of the largest electronic product manufacturers in the world, have announced the launch of the Toughbook and Toughpad at a media and reseller get-together on Thursday. The new Toughbook and...

Strong social media passwords are key

Last week (23 April), the Twitter account of the Associated Press (AP) news agency was hacked and subsequently sent out a hoax tweet reporting that President Barack Obama had been injured in an explosion in the White House. Within seconds, Wall Street was in panic...

MITSUMI wins at BoICT Awards Nigeria

The fourth Annual Beacon of ICT Awards 2013, the annual industry-wide celebration of deserving talents, contributions and commitments to the growth of the ICT industry, was held on Saturday, 20 April 2013 at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos, Nigeria. MITSUMI...

Quintica unveils COBIT 5 training courses

Companies throughout South Africa are fast starting to see the benefits of implementing governance initiatives at the heart of their business. As a result, COBIT and related frameworks are gathering traction and the need for their implementation is foremost on the...

IT Infrastructure Manager at Parvana Recruitment

Client Details:An international and highly regarded philanthropic organisation dedicated to education and social initiatives. Be part of a large global, very dynamic team that is highly ethical, progressive and dedicated to the greater good of society. Role...

Infrastructure Solutions Architect

As an Infrastructure Solutions Architect, your role will entail providing both infrastructure and Cloud architecture related services to the business community. As a champion for innovation and change, you will provide technical guidance and expertise based on...

Infrastructure Solutions Architect – Western Cape Oakdale

As an Infrastructure Solutions Architect, your role will entail providing both infrastructure and Cloud architecture related services to the business community. As a champion for innovation and change, you will provide technical guidance and expertise based on...

Systems and Network Engineer at Nutun

Introduction:Experienced in 2nd and 3rd Line Support Engineering, adept in User Support, Network, Server, Firewall management, and conducting root cause analysis. Proficient in telecommunication operations, dedicated to resolving issues from start to finish. Thrives...

Developer – Back-End (Senior) at Parvana Recruitment

Client Details:Our client is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company, catering to vendors of asset management solutions with their hosted software. They have carved a niche for themselves by offering affordable premium software across various industries. The...

Intermediate BI ETL Developer

ENVIRONMENT:BE responsible for the support, enhancement, and optimization of the current BI Data Warehouse by managing service requests from users and the support of internal data management tasks as the next Intermediate BI ETL Developer sought by a dynamic Financial...

Systems and Network Engineer at Nutun – Gauteng Sandown

Introduction:Experienced in 2nd and 3rd Line Support Engineering, adept in User Support, Network, Server, Firewall management, and conducting root cause analysis. Proficient in telecommunication operations, dedicated to resolving issues from start to finish. Thrives...

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