Financial barriers are primary reason for property rentals
The majority of people who rent residential accommodation in South Africa do so for financial reasons - with nearly half admitting they can't afford to buy a property, according to credit bureau TPN's latest Tenant Survey Report. The annual survey provides the...
SA’s online retail market is booming
Kathy Gibson reports - In 2023, the online retail market was worth R71-billion, making up 6,15% of the total R1,1-trillion retail market. "At the current rate, this means online retail will reach 10% of the total retail market by the end of 2025," says Arthur...
Altron issues trading statement
Altron has issued a trading statement, for the six months ended 31 August, alerting shareholders of a big decrease in earnings. The group warns that it is likely to report basic earnings per share of between -16 cents and -3 cents, being a decrease in excess of 100%...
Huge investment needed to achieve circular plastics economy
Ambitious goals for attaining a circular plastics economy could be achieved by shifting a portion of the future investment required to meet the growing demand for plastics towards advanced recycling methods, according to a new analysis by IHS Markit. Approximately...
Resellers gear up for major cloud investment
Nearly half (49%) of European resellers are preparing for a significant cloud push in the coming year, to meet rising customer demands for digital transformation, according to new data from Context. A preview of Context's upcoming ChannelWatch survey found that 73% of...
Dell Technologies Commits to Driving South Africa’s ICT Agenda Towards a Digital Ready Economy of the Future
With digital transformation being a major area of focus for businesses and government across South Africa, Dell Technologies has reinforced its commitment to advancing the country’s ICT agenda. Dell Technologies Forum South Africa 2021 will be held virtually this year...
Digital gender gap costs developing countries $1trn
New research has found that low and lower-middle income countries have lost an estimated $1-trillion in GDP in the last 10 years because of barriers preventing women from accessing the Internet and participating online. The study, conducted by the World Wide Web...
Young scientists beat the odds
An experiment to establish the effect of garden lights on swarms of honeybees awarded Rebecca Leisegang of Parktown Girls High School the top junior prize and a cash amount of R50 000 in the annual Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair awards...
Manufacturing and production companies least likely to pay out for ransomware
Companies in the manufacturing and production sector were the least likely (at 19%) to submit to a ransom demand to have encrypted files restored, and the most likely (at 68%) to be able to restore data from backups. This was among the results from a new sectoral...
Industrial businesses invest in digital transformation, sustainability
A massive 85% of businesses plan to increase their investment in digital transformation over the next three years in order to tackle climate change, embrace automation and unlock the performance benefits of advanced technologies. This is among the findings from an...
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The draft IP Policy document
The Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property, 2013 (the Policy) is an important document. That’s because it provides an insight into how government is thinking about IP and where it should be headed. In a sense, it is a statement of intent and an opportunity for...
BT lauches HD collaboration services
BT has announced the launch of a series of new services that promise to transform the quality of business conversations and greatly improve the way people work together within and between large organisations. Meetings using conferencing services, video and online...
Grab a cab with SnappCab
Getting around town has never been easier now that SnappCab, the taxi aggregating app, has launched in Johannesburg, with Cape Town and Durban to follow hot on its heels. It is the one smartphone app that everyone needs, from socialites getting to and from the hottest...
IS, DiData unite to manage BYOD WiFi
Dimension Data South Africa and Internet Solutions (IS) today announced the launch of Enterprise WiFi, a fully managed solution that integrates a secure, enterprise WLAN deployment with the advantages of the AlwaysOn Hotspot service. “The need to cater for smart phone...
Olivetti SA partners with Huge Telecom
Durban-Data Imports, the official importer and distributor of Olivetti's range of colour and mono digital photocopiers, facsimiles, printers, calculators and cash registers for the Sub-Sahara Region, is partnering with Huge Telecom by adding GSM-based telephony...
Remote working isn’t detached working
Governments, multinationals, SMEs - organisations worldwide are turning to remote working as a way to attract talent, retain it, and help their staff manage job and home-life more productively, says Kirsten Morgendaal, Regus area director for South Africa. Sometimes...
Compliance bug bites SA companies
South African companies outside of the financial services industry are earnestly looking for data or information governance frameworks to meet statutory and regulatory requirements on the one hand and handle their data management lifecycle (DMLC) on the other. That’s...
SA data users need the cloud
The rollout and adoption of cloud services in South Africa is inhibited by extraneous circumstances. And there is currently little optimism that these constraints will soon be overcome, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID). In the world...
Become a data naturalist
Are we "drowning in data"? Davide Hanan, MD of QlikView SA explains how all humans are naturally data analysts if we’re presented with information in the right way. I’m often asked if we are now faced with too much data to analyse; a ‘data deluge’ if you will. People...
HP announces mobile print solutions
HP recently announced secured mobile print solutions that make it easier for business customers to print whenever and wherever they need. HP also announced new single-function printers, multifunction printers (MFPs), scanners and solutions that streamline customers’...
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