Cyber resilience the foundation for Africa’s next phase of digital growth

Building strong cyber resilience will be the key to sustaining the current remarkable growth of Africa’s digital economy, according to a new white paper from Mastercard. The report – Africa’s Digital Defence Race - highlights that between 2016 and 2025, mobile money...

Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...

Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

New tools to protect against sextortion and intimate image abuse

Meta says it is testing new features to help protect young people from sextortion and intimate image abuse, and to make it more difficult for potential scammers and criminals to find and interact with teens. It is also testing new ways to help people spot potential...

Canal+ ups its Multichoice share holding

French media company Groupe Canal+ has acquired an additional interest in Multichoice's ordinary shares, and now holds 40,01% of the company's total ordinary shares in issue. As required in terms of section 122(3)(a) of the Companies Act, MultiChoice has filed the...

IBM unveils on-chip accelerated AI processor

IBM has unveiled details of the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in realtime. Announced at the annual Hot Chips conference, Telum is IBM's first processor that contains on-chip...

Key technologies drive innovation through trust, growth and change

Engineering trust, accelerating growth and sculpting change are the three overarching trends on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2021 that will drive organisations to explore emerging technologies such as nonfungible tokens (NFT), sovereign cloud,...

SA’s women entrepreneurs bridge the digital divide

Despite having to contend with gender disparities, women entrepreneurs in South Africa are bridging the digital divide and have adopted and integrated digital solutions into their businesses on a scale comparable to their male counterparts. According to new research...

Learning losses due to Covid-19 cause for concern

The Department of Basic Education is concerned about the learning losses the sector has incurred particularly since the pandemic began last year. Lost school days leads to foregone learning (learning losses) - recent from around the world even before the pandemic has...

Signed Apple II manual goes for $787k

An Apple II manual signed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been sold for more than three-quarters of a million dollars. RR Auction netted a massive $787 484.00 for the 196-page manual, which was signed by Jobs and Mike Markkula, an early investor in Apple and its...

Ransomware increases 10-fold

Threat intelligence from the first half of 2021 demonstrates a significant increase in the volume and sophistication of attacks targeting individuals, organisations, and increasingly critical infrastructure. The expanding attack surface of hybrid workers and learners,...

Solid growth ahead for GRC solutions

Worldwide revenues for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software experienced healthy growth in 2020, growing 8,2% year over year, despite concerns of a market downturn resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, the pandemic highlighted the need for...

New study sheds light on postoperative deaths in Africa

Death after surgery is a major public health problem in Africa. Surgical patients in Africa are twice as likely to die in hospital following surgery when compared to the global average. This is due to a failure to recognise and/or respond to common postoperative...

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Huawei launches transport market solutions

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has launched its innovative eLTE solution in South Africa, at the Africa Transport and Infrastructure Show at the Sandton Convention Centre. Huawei’s eLTE, which features...

Are biometrics solutions really secure?

Biometric access control technology has experienced phenomenal growth in adoption in South Africa over the past few years, with an estimated 80% of all access control solutions using fingerprint readers and other biometrics to enhance security, says Kobus Le Roux,...

Pamoja links FlowCentric, Guideline BizTech

Advanced process technology, Rubi-Flow, from FlowCentric Technologies, a leading local provider of agile, robust, and easily-integrated business process management solutions is being used to automate and power the business process components of Guideline BizTech’s...

BlackBerry Jam sessions come to SA in July

The BlackBerry Jam Africa & Middle East Tour will come to South Africa in July providing South African developers a chance for more hands-on experience with the range of development tools available for the BlackBerry platform. The sessions will take place in...

Cooling modern data centres

Virtually all IT equipment is air-cooled, that is, each piece of IT equipment takes in ambient air and ejects waste heat into its exhaust air, says Kevin Dunlap, general manager of cooling solutions, and Neil Rasmussen, senior VP of innovation for Schneider Electric....

Cloud security key for company data

There’s been a proliferation of cloud service providers on the local scene and this has granted companies the privilege of greater choice around who to entrust their data. The right to choose is one that Richard Broeke from specialist managed IT security services...

New Xerox products offer colour efficiency

Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), the authorised Xerox distributor in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and a division of Bytes Technology Group, has launched several new printers and multi-function devices to help businesses create professional-looking documents...

EMA recognises Riverbed solution

Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, announced that it has been named a "Value Leader" by the Enterprise Management Associates report for Application-Aware Network Performance Management. The Riverbed Performance Management solution achieved the...

Choosing the right collaboration partner

Selvin Kristnen, MD of Avaya South Africa, unpacks tips on how to choose the right audio and video collaboration partner. Issue - just because an application is free to download, it doesn’t mean that anyone can enter a video call on it for free. Although many vendors...

Samsung, Maramedia partner for education

Maramedia Publishing has been named as a provider of local education content for Samsung Electronics South Africa through the use of the Maramedia app, available at no cost from the Samsung app store, during the African Education Week convention and learning expo...

Business Analyst (FBA) at Parvana Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg

About our client:Our client offers financial service solutions helping their clients achieve their dreams. With an emphasis on culture fit, they boast a dedicated team of over 600 employees, many with over a decade of tenure. They have built their culture on a feeling...

Senior Data Engineer

Purpose of the Position:The purpose of the Senior Data Engineer for Insights and Reporting role is to design and implement data models and architectures that enable business stakeholders to gain insights from large-scale datasets. This individual will work closely...

Junior IT Administrator

Minimum Requirements:Matric / Grade 12 Relevant IT Qualifications: A+; N+; Security+; MCSA MCSE Experience knowledgeBasic Networking experience on domain networksExperience in Pastel accounting/ Payroll; Vanilla Payroll; CaseWare Working papers software (Highly...

Junior BI Developer

Our client is seeking a talented Junior Business Intelligence Developer who will be responsible for transforming raw data into visually appealing and informative dashboards using Qlik software. This position is ideal for individuals passionate about data...

Data Engineer

Is this you?Are you a pioneering Data Engineer with a flair for innovation and a passion for data quality? Our client is looking for a self-starter, someone who can independently navigate complex data landscapes and drive excellence in data integration and...

Senior Data Engineer – Gauteng Ferndale

Purpose of the Position:The purpose of the Senior Data Engineer for Insights and Reporting role is to design and implement data models and architectures that enable business stakeholders to gain insights from large-scale datasets. This individual will work closely...

Junior IT Administrator – Eastern Cape East London

Minimum Requirements:Matric / Grade 12 Relevant IT Qualifications: A+; N+; Security+; MCSA MCSE Experience knowledgeBasic Networking experience on domain networksExperience in Pastel accounting/ Payroll; Vanilla Payroll; CaseWare Working papers software (Highly...

Junior BI Developer – Remote Remote

Our client is seeking a talented Junior Business Intelligence Developer who will be responsible for transforming raw data into visually appealing and informative dashboards using Qlik software. This position is ideal for individuals passionate about data...

Data Engineer – Gauteng Sandown

Is this you?Are you a pioneering Data Engineer with a flair for innovation and a passion for data quality? Our client is looking for a self-starter, someone who can independently navigate complex data landscapes and drive excellence in data integration and...

Java Developer Senior

Remote position Our client is looking for a Senior Java Developer who is passionate about technology and delighting our clients, to join our Technical Consulting team. Projects include developing custom software, maintaining and supporting software systems, and...

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