Electric vehicle growth in SA set to accelerate
As the global community celebrated World EV Day in September, South Africa reflected on the structural challenges standing in the way of better uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) to help reduce carbon emissions. Although the South African EV industry is currently small...
Phishing mimicking WormGPT surfaces on dark net
Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence experts have uncovered a series of websites on the shadow Internet that appear to be selling fake access to the malicious AI-tool WormGPT. These sites have phishing-like characteristics including varying designs, pricing,...
Resilience, inclusion could be latest Covid victims
Covid-19 has not only claimed millions of lives, but it also risks widened long-standing health, economic and digital disparities. Billions of caregivers, workers and students - especially minorities who were disadvantaged before the pandemic - could be at risk of...
Schooling, education left behind as Covid bites
Parents around South Africa are both cautious about their children returning to school and frustrated by the time lost through 2020. Given relatively low internet connectivity in most areas of the country, online learning has largely failed as a stopgap during...
Work from home drives home improvement trend
Since March 2020, 70% of consumers have reported making changes in their living environment due to spending more time at home during the pandemic, and more than half (51%) have reported purchasing at least one smart device during that period. According to a study from...
Continued education rollouts drive EMEA tablet market
The tablet market in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region totaled 14,6-million units in 4Q20, growing 11,7% year on year (YoY), according to data from IDC ' s Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. The continued demand generated by the...
Pat Gelsinger takes the reins at Intel
Pat Gelsinger has officially become the eighth CEO in Intel's history, having taken up the position yesterday (14 February). Gelsinger brings more than four decades of technology and leadership experience to the job, including 30 years at Intel, where he began his...
Consumers are soft targets as fraud increases
As South Africans waved goodbye to 2020, they looked forward to 2021 with a lot of anticipation that the year would not be filled with the same challenges that had to be dealt with over the previous 12 months. Unfortunately, this has not materialised, and the Southern...
Expected growth hides real downturn in vehicle sales
Suth Africa's 2021 new vehicle sales will show double digit growth off 2020's unforeseen low base but will also continue to show a decline in real economic terms says WesBank. WesBank CEO Chris de Kock says two distinct considerations need to be separated in...
Long, hard road ahead for Eskom turnaround
Kathy Gibson reports - Eskom is attempting to pivot its business in line with global energy trends while simultaneously pulling itself back from the brink after years of poor management and maintenance - all while splitting into three operating entities. That's the...
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SA’s solar energy debate
South Africa is the third best solar location globally, as it has one of the highest and most stable solar radiations in the world. With 2 500 hours of sunshine annually - equalling one third of a year or four entire months including nightly hours - the opportunities...
Avaya hosts partner conference
Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, hosted its annual PartnerConnect Conference on 23 January in Johannesburg. The conference focused on helping partners throughout the African continent grow their regional...
Make sense of data by mining it
As the year starts, the media is filled with analysts and experts from various sectors and industries and their predictions about what the most notable trends will be in the year ahead. Those who are gazing into the proverbial crystal ball on behalf of the IT industry...
Epson launches EB-1900 projector range
Epson, one of the leading projector manufacturers since 2001, has launched the EB-1900 range of projectors. These have been designed to meet the needs of both corporate and education environments in South Africa by offering a combination of high-quality output,...
HTML5 favoured among developers
Choosing what mobile platforms to support continues to be a vexing problem for developers both big and small. Supporting one platform can be difficult enough, but now developers not only have multiple operating systems to consider, but multiple device types as well....
CIH enhances processes with PPO
Capricorn Investment Holdings (CIH), a Namibian-based financial services group with interests in banking, insurance, asset management, investments and microfinance, is improving project status reporting, resource utilisation as well as timesheet management, with the...
Cloud an opportunity for the channel
A depressed economic climate, coupled with the ever-present challenges of shrinking IT budgets, reduced spend and lower margins, are issues which have plagued the channel for many years, says Alain Schram, chief operating officer at Kathea. More recently the...
Seagate wins Best of CES 2013 award
With a "Best of CES 2013" win, Seagate’s Wireless Plus is destined for great things, says local distributor Platinum Micro. The Wireless Plus mobile storage device was singled out by international consumer technology news site CNET for the award in its Networking and...
DiData launches cloud readiness services
To support the expanding role cloud services are playing across enterprise information technology, Dimension Data, an ICT services and solutions provider, has launched several new cloud readiness services designed to help organisations assess their ability and...
Making the move to mobile
With mobile penetration in South Africa already well over 100%, an increasing number of enterprises are turning to this medium as a means of communicating with their customer bases. Mobile communications tools like SMS represent an immediate, personal and...
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