Mastercard opens nominations for Women SME Leaders Awards
Mastercard has announced the return of Women SME Leaders Awards for its third edition, shining a spotlight on the achievements of women-owned and led businesses across Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA). Nominations are now open for the awards, inviting...
Why range records set for hydrogen cars may not matter
At the end of February 2024, the UK ran its second Hydrogen Week. During this week, Hyundai set two new records for the driving range of its fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). While certainly a significant achievement, will the ultimate range of FCEVs impact...
Global energy storage industry primed to treble annual installations
The global energy storage market continues to prove resilient to the impacts of Covid-19 and supply constraints for Li-ion batteries and will enter a prolonged period of growth this year, with annual installations reaching more than 30 GW by 2030 - up 250% from 2021...
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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Sophos positioned in Gartner quadrant
Sophos has announced that it was, once again, positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s 2013 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection. The quadrant is based on an assessment of a company’s market understanding, strategy and completeness of vision within the...
The implications of mobile for business
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Intervate wins at Microsoft Partner Awards
Enterprise information management solution provider Intervate IT has emerged as the major winner at Microsoft’s annual Partner Network Awards, announced at a gala dinner in Johannesburg last night. The annual awards honour Microsoft partners for delivering innovative...
Creating truly Agile development teams
Agile development is the trending buzzword in the software development world, and for good reason. It is arguably the major revolution in the software development process over the past decade, says Clinton Bosch, architect at BSG Africa. Scrum gatherings are a regular...
Best practices make BYOD simple and secure
As consumerisation continues to transform IT, organisations are moving quickly to design strategies to allow and embrace bring your own device (BYOD), says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix South Africa. Empowered to choose the best device to get their work...
ESN can filter out unnecessary data
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Local retailers have advantage in Africa
With international retail chains eyeing the African market, South African retailers will need to beef up supply chain efficiencies at scale but could easily outdo competitors with their built-in understanding of apportioning their offering to meet regional or local...
Seven steps for SMS success
Given that mobile penetration rates in SA are higher than any other medium, mobile communication is undoubtedly one of the best ways to reach the widest audience, says Desere Orrill, is group CMO of Ole! Media Holdings and MD of MobiMedia. Text messaging is quick,...
NetApp to deliver cloud data management
CIOs are moving from being builders and operators of data centres to becoming brokers of application and information services. They are embracing new technologies and service models to deliver IT faster, cheaper, and smarter, while making their companies more...
Kaspersky Lab wins AV-Test award
Kaspersky Lab is pleased to announce it has received a coveted AV-Test Innovation Award for its protection of online financial transactions. The experts at AV-Test were unanimous in recognising the overall effectiveness of Kaspersky Lab’s ability to protect financial...
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To efficiently code, debug and unit test simple to moderate programs. This includes new development and or modifications to existing programs on a Supply Chain system. Compile designs for simple to moderate programs. Prepare complete system documentation in...
Senior Project Manager
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Agile Master (Senior) 2274 TT
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Jnr IT Support Technician
Remote working opportunity with a High speed, low cost, uncapped fibre internet provider providing connectivity and Voice solutions to both Business and Consumer clients. Role: Remote ISP and Voice Support Technician with proven experience maintaining and monitoring...
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