These are the top 10 social media LLMs
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Nvidia accelerates Microsoft’s open Phi-3 Mini language models
Nvidia has announced its acceleration of Microsoft's new Phi-3 Mini open language model with Nvidia TensorRT-LLM, an open-source library for optimizing large language model inference when running on Nvidia GPUs from PC to cloud. Phi-3 Mini packs the capability of 10x...
Formbook is now top malware
Formbook is now the most prevalent malware, taking over Trickbot, which has fallen into second following a three-month long reign. This is according to the Global Threat Index for August 2021 from Check Point Research (CPR), the threat Intelligence arm of Check Point...
Mustek reports higher revenue, earnings
Mustek has reported revenue of R8,04-billion for the financial year ended 30 June 2021, 25,6% higher than the previous year. Gross profit percentage increased to 14,8% (2020: 14.2%), while the operating profit of R472,46-million was up 135,1% (2020: R200,96-million)....
SA savers are super-optimistic
South Africans are more optimistic than at any point in the past five years, expecting their future investment returns to average 15,2% per year for the next five years, an increase of 2,5% since last year. Their expectations are substantially higher than global...
In the midst of Covid, SA mobile telcos come up short
In a year dominated by Covid-19, lockdowns and work-from-home arrangements where mobile data and connectivity is critical, South Africa's mobile telco providers have struggled to rise to the challenge of keeping customers with higher expectations satisfied. This is...
Business confidence down but not out
After surging by 15 points to 50 in the second quarter, the RMB/BER Business Confidence index (BCI) retreated to 43 in the third quarter. The index is now back in net negative terrain, where the number of respondents unsatisfied with prevailing business conditions...
World faces an uneven post-Covid recovery
The Covid-19 pandemic plunged the world economy into the worst recession experienced in post-war history. However, the World Bank predicts a return to global growth of 5,6% for 2021. This would mark the strongest growth rate in economic activity since 1973 and it...
Suspicious phishing emails are rampant
A massive 33% of emails employees report as phishing are either malicious or highly suspect, according to new research. The finding comes from an analysis of emails reported by employees from organisations across the globe during the first half of 2021, and highlights...
Campus switch market roars back to life
The worldwide Campus Switch market revenue surged in 2Q 2021, growing 15% year-over-year. This is according to a recent report by Dell'Oro Group, which points out the last time such a robust performance was experienves was in 4Q 2018 when Cisco initiated its Catalyst...
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IM landscape changes rapidly in SA
The rapid growth of the WhatsApp instant messaging (IM) client and the decline in the volume of chat messages going through MXit over the past 12 months in South Africa, are indicative of the change in the way people are using their mobile phones to communicate with...
Vicitude, Yellowfin SA ink BI partnership
Cape Town-based software specialist, Vicitude Business Solutions, has signed a reseller agreement with Yellowfin South Africa, the official distributor for Yellowfin in sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement will see Vicitude offering Yellowfin’s easy-to-use business...
Pannar Seed buys digital Xerox press
In a move away from outsourced litho printing, Pannar Seed’s in-house media and printing service department has bought a Xerox Colour X1000 digital press from Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), Africa’s leading document management technology and services company, and the...
Mimecast offers Large File Send for Outlook
Mimecast announced Large File Send for Outlook a new service that makes sending large files secure and easy for users but meets the governance and management needs of IT staff. The service will eliminate a common data security or "Shadow IT" threat caused when users...
E-learning enhances business performance
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Tecovation appointed as Kounta POS reseller
Des Parker, CEO of Tecovation, part of Bothongo Group Commercial, has announced that they have been appointed as the regional reseller for Kounta in the southern African region. “Retail and hospitality businesses can get a quick start in the cloud with Kounta’s new...
C-COM, Vox Telecom announce partnership
C-COM Satellite Systems, the leading global provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, has announced that it has started supplying South Africa’s largest independent telecommunications firm with iNetVu Mobile antennas. The C-COM manufactured antennas...
M-KOPA Solar rolls out Sage 300 ERP
M-KOPA Solar was in need of a system that could provide for integration, flexibility and detailed reporting. Sage 300 ERP Standard Edition (formerly Sage 300 ERP Accpac) presented itself as the perfect solution to address the company’s business needs and...
Meeting the demand of the African data boom
Africans like their mobile phones, too. So surely the African continent will simply follow the same telecom development and usage pattern as the rest of the world - perhaps just a little later? Well, not quite, says David King, CEO, Flexenclosure. Africa has proven to...
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