AI companies dominate the unicorn club
Last year, fewer than 100 companies joined the global unicorn club - the lowest number since 2017 and a steep drop compared to 2022 and 2023, which saw hundreds of private startups valued at $1-billion or more. Still, in a year that showed becoming a unicorn is much...
Tech industry most geopoliticised in the world
The global supply chains organised to optimise profit and speed - which shaped international trade and delivered benefits to both producers and consumers for two decades under globalisation - have now been twisted out of shape, with the global economy facing...
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...
Government, business leaders agree on priorities for economic recovery
Business leaders from industries affected by the recent violence have, in a virtual meeting convened by President Cyril Ramaphosa, reaffirmed their commitment to work with government in rebuilding South Africa's economy. The meeting followings last week's civil...
International travel back on hold
The biggest crisis in the history of tourism continues into a second year. Between January and May, international tourist arrivals were 85% below 2019 levels (or a 65% drop on 2020), UNWTO data shows. Despite a small uptick in May, the emergence of Covid-19 variants...
Calls for common stand on spectrum management
The sixth edition of the Sub Sahara Spectrum Management Conference kicked off this week with regulators, experts, and other industry players looking for the African common stand on spectrum management. As more and more of the African continent comes online, spectrum...
Kaspersky calls for protection of space infrastructure
The cybersecurity aspects of space travel and the threat that compromised infrastructure could pose to human exploration of space are looked at in detail in a new Kaspersky and Zayed University report, "Cyber threat profile of space infrastructure". Publication of the...
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MDM is crucial to leveraging BYOD
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Canonical, VMware collaborate on OpenStack
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FlightSite uses hosted contract centre model
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NEC delivers new MultiSync EA294WMi
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UC is the way forward for enterprises
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Risk-based billing is the future
“Risk-based billing is set to change the image of the entire IT industry, and the software industry in particular. "The IT giants of the future will be those who can deliver a product according to customer needs and are willing to bet their product delivers, not...
NetIQ releases CloudAccess 1.1
With the onslaught of cloud applications and services, IT teams need to more quickly and easily manage the workload in a controlled, secure and automated environment. By delivering a consistent single sign-on experience to users, protecting corporate data and helping...
E-commerce essential for modern distribution
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Youth Employment Accord to be signed
On Thursday 18 April 2013 President of South Africa Jacob Zuma will with social partners be publically signing the Youth Employment Accord. As part of the process, recruitment portal company Lulaway has been asked to attend in its capacity as a recruitment partner....
Oracle announces in-memory applications
Oracle has announced new Oracle In-Memory Applications for Oracle Engineered Systems leveraging DRAM, flash memories and the near zero latency InfiniBand network fabric to run 10 to 20-times faster than commodity hardware by transforming batch processing to real-time...
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