AI, automation will give CIOs agility, insights
A recent IDC FutureScape report finds that, by 2028, 80% of CIOs will leverage organisational changes to harness AI, automation, and analytics, driving agile, insight-driven digital businesses. This prediction highlights the role of CIOs as key players in shaping the...
More than half of companies use AI, IoT in business processes
A recent Kaspersky study has revealed that more than 50% of companies surveyed have implemented artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) in their businesses' infrastructures. Additionally, 33% are planning to adopt these interconnected technologies...
Spoofing attacks have doubled in recent months
Email spoofing involves the creation of fake emails that seem legitimate to trick users into taking action that will benefit the attacker. This can be downloading malware, providing access to systems or data, offering up personal details, or transferring money. Often...
Young scientists fly the SA flag at Hong Kong science fair
Innovative South African scientific research about detecting and classifying cardiac arrhythmia and prosthesis control using muscle impulses will compete against other high-tech studies in the 2021 Virtual Global Youth Science and Technology Bowl (GYSTB) Science Fair...
Wesbank systems are back online
WesBank's systems are back up and running. Ghana Msibi, CEO of WesBank Motor, confirms that a resolution to the technical issues experienced last week has been found and systems have resumed. "Our IT teams are still hard at work to ensure a seamless transition and...
5G smartphone, macrocell base station semiconductor market to hit $260bn
Two new forecasts from International Data Corporation (IDC) shed light on the sizable opportunity for 5G-related semiconductors in smartphones and macrocell base transceiver stations (BTSs) for the period 2021–2025. Over the next five years the cumulative market size...
Cellular IoT shipments exceeded 300m units
Berg Insight estimates that global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 14% to a new record level of 303-million in 2020. Annual revenues grew slower at 8% to reach $3,4-billion. While the Covid-19 pandemic affected demand in several major application areas in...
Software-defined infrastructure software pushed past $12bn in 2020
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Software-Defined Infrastructure Tracker, the worldwide software-defined infrastructure (SDI) software market reached $12.17 billion during calendar year 2020, an increase of 5% over the...
SA’s consumer debt surges to R1,9trn
The rate people defaulted on their loans for the first time increased in the first quarter of the year, according to Experian South Africa's Consumer Default Index (CDI). The index deteriorated from 4.02 in December last year to a reading of 4.33 in March 2021, as...
BNPL consumer spending on track to triple by 2025
Since the start of the pandemic, the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market has experienced exponential growth. According to the research data analysed and published by Definanzas.com, the top BNPL apps in the market have seen the number of their monthly active users (MAUs)...
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Oracle announces MySQL 5.6
Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL 5.6, the world’s most popular open-source database. With increased performance, scalability, reliability and manageability, MySQL 5.6 helps users meet the most demanding Web, cloud and embedded application...
Survey: SaaS customer support lacking
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Why companies need a go-to-market plan
With the dawn of a new year, many new innovative startups are also bound to see the light as young entrepreneurs with stars in their eyes and dreams of becoming the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Shuttleworth, put their ideas into what they surely hope will...
Realtime bidding to change Web ad sales
Realtime bidding for online display advertising could help South African publishers to sell more of their inventory at a lower cost and for a higher price if it is wisely exploited. So says Attila Bernariusz, divisional head at Kagiso Digital, one of South Africa's...
DVT develops mobile app for MUA clients
MUA Insurance Acceptances, a leading insurance underwriter specialising in tailored personal lines insurance solutions for high net worth individuals, has launched a mobile application developed by DVT in an effort to streamline communications with its clients and...
Does cost efficiency cost money?
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Financial institution uses Quintica solution
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Mazda wins with Oracle SPARC T4 servers
Mazda Motor Corporation has modernised and consolidated its Mazda Digital Innovation (MDI) system on Oracle’s SPARC T4-4 and T4-2 servers running Oracle Solaris 10. The MDI system is critical to Mazda product development and provides technologies which span the entire...
Genesys One to launch in SA
Promising leading contact centre technologies up and running in 30 days, Genesys One is coming to market in SA through implementation partner Bytes Connect. Genesys a leading provider of customer service solutions, has just launched its Genesys One solution, which...
Aviat provides services to MTN Ghana
Aviat Networks, a leading expert in microwave networking solutions, has announced that it is providing comprehensive Spares Management Services in addition to its AviatCare services to MTN Ghana, a subsidiary of pan-Africa mobile telecom leader MTN Group. Aviat...
SAP Test Analyst at QES – Western Cape Bellville
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