AI is changing enterprises, and already driving value

By Kathy Gibson - Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to pay off for early enterprise adopters. More than half of companies that have implemented AI are now seeing a return on investment, with the most value reported by future-built organisations. This is the...

Tech giants raise the AI safety bar

The risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) are back in the spotlight with the news that rogue agents have been responsible for multiple attacks on government sites in Australia and the US. Even the FBI has not been immune to attacks from autonomous agents....

AI makes critical thinking a workforce priority

A new global study from the IBM for Business Value points to a disconnect between the skills chief human resource officers (CHROs) say AI requires and those employees prioritise. While 71% of CHROs identify the ability to supervise, validate and override AI outputs as...

Today’s data centre build-out dwarfs previous infrastructure investments

Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the biggest infrastructure build-out in human history – bigger than the railroads or the Industrial Revolution. “People assume AI is a bubble, but it is showing no signs of...

AI helps KLM to combat food waste

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is wasting less food on board aircraft thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). AI programs enable the company to better predict how many passengers who have booked will actually board a flight. This allows the exact number of required meals to...

New Intel processors bring the AI experience closer

Kathy Gibson reports – End users and partners need to prepare for what’s coming in the technology world – and artificial intelligence (AI) is going to being driving a lot of the changes. Intel South Africa’s Kobus de Beer, speaking at a Pinnacle SME Windows 11 event,...

Learn and innovate together at SAP’s SAPPHIRE NOW

This year SAP's flagship event SAPPHIRE NOW is a free-to-attend virtual experience that brings live panels, round tables, expert conversations and immersive virtual experiences to delegates around the world. The SAPPHIRE NOW 2021 program kicks off on 2 June 2021 with...

Americans set to lose over $5bn to Internet crime

Cybercriminals in America are getting richer. According to the Atlas VPN team's analysis, Americans are estimated to lose $5,6-billion to internet crime by the end of 2021. Cybercrime losses are expected to grow by nearly a third (32%) in 2021 from 4,2-billion in...

IDC forecasts growth for carrier VNF/CNF and NFVI markets

International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide revenue for telecommunications network functions virtualisation (NFV) software, including virtual network functions (VNFs), network functions virtualisation infrastructure (NFVI), and cloud-native network...

Cold chain tracking solutions market bolstered by Covid

Berg Insight, the world's leading IoT market research provider, today released a new market report covering the cold chain tracking market. The number of active tracking devices deployed for refrigerated cargo loading units including trailers, intermodal containers,...

Treated right, Born Digital workers can deliver big profits

Today's young employees are the engines of the knowledge economy and tomorrow's business leaders - and according Citrix Systems' "The Born Digital Effect" research, they're primed to deliver an extra $1,9-trillion in corporate profits. But they'll need some help to...

USSD still key for omnichannel strategies in Africa

As companies forge ahead with their digital transformation, many are inadvertently excluding large parts of their customer base who don't own smartphones, alienating vital demographics and crippling their digital inclusion agendas. A technology they should not forego...

MEA’s PC shipments on a 15-year high

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, recorded incredible year-on-year growth of 36,6% in the first quarter of 2021 -- the highest annual growth seen in the region...

Chip shortage fails to dent global PC growth

Despite ongoing concerns around semiconductor shortages the PC market continues to be one of the many consumer technology markets that is thriving. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device...

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Bytes awarded Cisco certification

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HR experts advise school-leavers to upskill

Those leaving school are advised to earnestly embark on study to acquire a qualification, be it a degree, diploma or even a one-year certificate. This is according to human resource (HR) and recruitment experts, who state that it is best to initially start and...

Six priorities for contact centres in 2013

If contact centres aren’t preparing to embrace these six key trends, they have already fallen behind, says Ian Goss-Ross, CEO of Elingo. Too many contact centres have relied on tried-and-trusted technologies for too long. But emerging trends and technologies that have...

Predictive analytics for BI

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Triple Point acquires WAM Systems

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FrontRange launches HEAT Cloud 2012.3

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Turn any TV into a Smart TV with Nology

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mPowa a company to watch in 2013

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Analyst Developer: Actuarial Values – Western Cape Cape Town

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