Speed bumps on the road to a global energy transition
Developments regarding the multidimensional energy space over the last three years have shaken expectations of a linear global transition as climate goals compete with economic development, energy access, energy security and affordability. The new edition of S&P...
Edge computing investments set to hit $232bn this year
Worldwide spending on edge computing is expected to be $232-billion in 2024, an increase of 15,4% over 2023. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Edge Spending Guide, combined enterprise and service provider spending...
Caution weighs on IoT VC funding
Low-value venture capital (VC) funding deals (investments less than or equal to $10-million) volume also shrank as overall VC funding activity in the Internet of Things (IoT) space declined during 2020 compared to 2019. The share of low-value deals as a proportion of...
Top semiconductor stocks deliver over 100% ROI
Despite the global shortage of semiconductors, the industry's stocks are recording significant returns for investors. The returns highlight the sector's potential despite the shortage. According to data compiled by Finbold, the top five selected semiconductor stocks...
Businesses go beyond VPN to secure hybrid settings
With the migration to remote and hybrid work over the last year, cyberattacks have increased at a rate of three to five times compared to pre-Covid. For a while now, VPNs have been a staple of a standard security setup and a fast track for mobile business security....
Telcos move to better services and choice
Innovation and technological advancements over the past three decades have resulted in more competition across the telecoms value chain (TVC), bringing with it better services, greater customer choice and lower prices. This is one of the key findings of a report...
SA uses double the resources Earth can sustain
South Africans are consuming beyond the capacity of Earth's ability to sustain us, using up resources at double the rate at which the Earth's ecosystem can recover. And we have been failing for 51 years. South Africa's Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) falls on 4 July 2021...
Global plan mooted to spur tourism recovery
The dramatic plunge in global tourism due to the Covid-19 pandemic is having far-reaching and devastating effects, particularly for Small States. Now, the Commonwealth Secretariat proposed the development of a global "Tourism Action Plan" to help spur a much-needed...
Social media adoption could bolster African growth
Social media platforms help to accelerate economic growth and opportunity across the continent. This is one of the findings of a study conducted by Genesis Analytics in eight African countries - Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, the DRC, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius,...
1,1m threats now target gamers
In 2020, as countries around the world were forced into lockdown, the number of online gamers skyrocketed. In fact, by the end of March 2020, the number of both active users and concurrent users actively playing games on Steam (the most popular online gaming platform,...
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Contact centres go social with Aspect Social
Aspect Software, a leading provider of next generation customer contact and enterprise workforce optimisation, has announced the launch of Aspect Social, a cloud-based offering that aligns interactions organisations have with customers on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and...
Multisource brings GSM to rural Zambia
Leading South African wireless communication specialist Multisource Telecoms has won a contract that will see 20 low-cost GSM towers bringing cell phone communications to rural Zambians for the first time. Supplied by US-based wireless telecommunications giant Vanu,...
BMW hosts inaugural e-mobility summit
BMW South Africa held its first-ever electro mobility (e-mobility) stakeholder summit in George, Western Cape, recently as part of a drive to begin unpacking the future of e-mobility domestically. The week-long event was attended by groups of business and motoring...
FET Colleges go live on ITS Integrator
Both the Port Elizabeth and Buffalo City Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges have gone live with its implementation of ITS Integrator. This was provided by ITS Tertiary Software, a leading independent technology solutions and services company and member of...
BBM 7 available on BlackBerry 5 OS
BlackBerry has announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) version 7.0.1,which features voice chatting over a WiFi connection, is now available for BlackBerry smartphones running the BlackBerry 5 OS. BBM version 7.0.1 with BBM Voice is a fast, convenient, and...
500 businesses respond to revised BEE codes
About 500 businesses have submitted comment to the DTI’s proposed revised BEE codes released in October 2012. Keith Levenstein, CEO of EconoBEE, a BEE advisory firm, says the radical ideas in the proposed codes and lack of communication from the DTI left businesses...
Detection, response is key for security
The real target for cybercriminals today is not technology. It’s the employee. With security measures being increasingly more effective, often the only point of entry to a company’s network for a cybercriminal is via an employee. In addition, the mobility of employees...
Telenetix gets a fibre boost from XDSL
Telenetix Technology Solutions, a highly innovative company that manufactures mobile modular containerised data centres, has implemented a 2Mbps fibre optic solution from XDSL at its Samrand, Centurion head office, giving it the throughput and reliability it needs to...
Identifying counterfeit printer cartridges
Counterfeit, or fake, ink and toner cartridges are available everywhere for all the major printer brands, says Tyrone Malan, Lexmark product specialist at distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC). These products are considered trademark violations and are an...
HP streamlines transition to LTE
HP Enterprise Services has announced new solutions that enable communication service providers (CSPs) to streamline the transition to long-term evolution (LTE) networks and embrace a diversity of mobile access networks with a single subscriber management solution. As...
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