WaterWeek highlights urgency for water resiliency interventions
South Africa's National Water Week (20-26 March), and World Water Day (22 March), coincide this year with uproar in Johannesburg as large swathes of the city have been facing recurrent water outages or low supply - not for days, but for months. The challenges that...
SA unveils infrastructure plans
South Africa's latest infrastructure developments and investment opportunities were unpacked by a high-level panel of government stakeholders at the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa in Cape Town earlier this week. "Infrastructure...
SASE solutions the future for security
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Protecting your biometrics is your birthright
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HP believed to be dropping PageWide line-up
Almost 10 years after launching the PageWide printers into the market, it is believed that HP is discontinuing the product category. PageWide technology has a fixed print head that prints the entire width of the page. Sources reveal that HP is set to drop the A4 and...
Campaign aims to bring corporates, SMEs together after unrest
One Linkage is putting its weight behind efforts to help small South African businesses recover from the spate of unrest that affected parts of the country in recent days. A week of looting and rioting has seen the destruction of thousands of businesses in the Gauteng...
Transnet container terminal systems interrupted
Speculation about a cyberattack at Transnet is rife as the state-owned logistics company is experiencing interruptions to its container terminal operations. Very little information is available, with the Transnet web site currently down, but some customers have been...
Weaponised cyberattacks may soon kill people
By 2025, cyber attackers will have weaponised operational technology (OT) environments to successfully harm or kill humans, according to Gartner - and CEOs could be held liable. Attacks on OT - hardware and software that monitors or controls equipment, assets and...
Quantum computing set for growth surge
Confidence that quantum computers will solve major problems that are beyond the reach of traditional computers - a milestone known as quantum advantage - has grown fast in the past 12 months, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) titled What...
Competitive advantage, customer experience drive cloud migrations
Organisations are moving to the cloud in big numbers to drive competitive strategies and provide richer customer experiences, a shift from earlier adopters that looked to the cloud primarily for operation efficiencies. As companies recognize the high stakes of a cloud...
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Not all BI service providers are equal
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Konica Minolta wins Microsoft certification
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BlackBerry launches Q5 smartphone
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Logikal enhances Indian office
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Yellowfin appoints AIGS as local distributor
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Choosing the right display for the job
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Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant
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Alexander Forbes rolls out green data centre
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UPSes important for SOHO, SME market
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