SMEs are under attack
South Africa ranks as the sixth most targeted country for cyberattacks, resulting in an estimated annual cost of R2,2-billion to the economy. And, despite the view held by many of the country's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that their ventures are too...
Learners urged to unleash their creativity
Samsung South Africa is calling all learners in grade 10 and 11 from public schools in underserved communities to unleash the spark of innovation within them. The Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition is the perfect platform for learners to display their scientific...
Cell C on track for RAN decommissioning
Cell C has successfully decommissioned 34% of its physical Radio Access Network (RAN) sites, while seamlessly migrating prepaid and Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) customers to roam solely on its partner network, MTN, via a virtual RAN. In this first phase, the...
Partnership aims to reduce youth unemployment by 10%
As South Africa's youth unemployment rate reaches 46,3%, Accenture has announced a partnership with Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN) that aims to give youth increased access to the economy and address youth unemployement at scale. "South Africa has 7.2 million...
Cyberattacks and threats continue to break records
We should be prepared for a further increase in cyberattacks, which could be partly down to major powers leaking cyber superweapons, according to Check Point Research. "We have long warned that organisations of all sizes are being bombarded by a global, fifth...
Huge growth for global public cloud services market
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 40,7% in 2020 to total $64,3-billion, up from $45,7-billion in 2019, according to Gartner. Amazon retained the number one position in the IaaS market in 2020, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and...
Digital banking takes off
Over the last few years, millions of people worldwide turned to digital or app-only banks, choosing them over a traditional high-street financial institution. However, after the pandemic struck, digital banks witnessed an influx of new clients, as mobile banking...
Chief compliance officers must expand role
As demands on the compliance function grow more intense, chief compliance officers (CCOs) must proactively embrace new leadership responsibilities for their role and reposition how their function is thought of among stakeholders, according to Gartner. Gartner has...
Consequential accountability to drive leadership diversity
To achieve and sustain diversity among leadership benches, HR organisations must adopt consequential accountability, which meaningfully impacts behavior and outcomes for individual leaders, according to Gartner. Despite mounting external and internal pressures to...
Intel core processors, Bridge Technology ready for Windows 11
New PCs enabled by Intel Core processors and Intel's portfolio of intellectual property and platform technologies are ready to deliver the full potential of new Windows 11 experiences -- allowing people to collaborate, create and connect in ways that are meaningful to...
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Text messaging drives recruitment
Global messaging solution specialist, Dialogue Communications, says text messaging is essential to driving an effective recruitment process. This announcement comes at a time when unemployment rates are high and the recruitment industry is as important as ever....
BDS appoints new GM for services
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), Africa’s leading document management technology and solutions company and the largest Xerox distributor in the world, has appointed Anton van den Berg to the position of general manager: services. Van den Berg has significant management...
Cherry picking suppliers grows efficiencies
The supply chain looms ever larger as a component of today's business. However, while the logistics and management of the supply chain have been focus areas for many channel players looking to improve their business, the benefits of rationalising the supply chain have...
A little security for big data
Bringing the issue of security into the big data discussion often produces two divergent schools of thought from IT professionals − categorical denial that big data should be treated any differently from existing network infrastructure, and an opposite response...
PVision arms 2RM with video solution
Local display technology provider, PVision, has concluded an agreement with one of the South Africa’s foremost security and risk management groups, 2RM Security, to furnish a new Johannesburg command centre with advanced video technology and applications. The...
Mobile connectivity enables business
Being connected has become such a part of daily routines that it is unheard of to not check e-mail, send a social network update, or edit a document in the cloud wherever users find themselves. And given the increase in WiFi hotspots, people could live "always on"...
How vertical markets embrace big data
It’s recognised that big data not only exists but that it has great potential to disrupt well-established vertical markets. Google commented on the fact that every two days, users generate as much information as was created between the dawn of civilisation and 2003,...
Using mobile devices for hotel bookings
While mobile device usage is no stranger to the hotel industry, the rate of proliferation in their usage is staggering – and is likely to become the primary way of connecting to hotels in the near future, says Nicolette Kruger, country manager of NFS Technology, the...
BYOD leads to big data and virtualisation
Despite it becoming a more prevalent trend around the world among both big and small businesses, some employers are still wary of embracing the “bring-your-own-device” (BYOD) concept of allowing their workers to bring their personal laptops, smartphones and tablets to...
A virtual business environment
Today’s business environment is defined by the strategic application of unified communications (UC) technology, underpinned by virtual and cloud applications, to establish and sustain operations, says Robert Sussman, joint CEO, Integr8 Group. It does not really...
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