How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Competition Appeal Court clears Standard Bank

The Standard Bank of South Africa has welcomed the Competition Appeal Court’s decision to uphold its appeal by dismissing currency manipulation allegations against Standard Bank. The ruling comes several years after the Competition Commission’s decision to charge...

AMD to debut AI engines, elevated in-vehicle experiences

AMD will showcase automotive innovation at CES 2024 and expand its portfolio with the introduction of two new devices, the Versal AI Edge XA adaptive SoC and Ryzen Embedded V2000A Series processor. Working alongside a growing automotive partner ecosystem, AMD will...

Economic uncertainty to shape cybercrime agenda in Africa

Growing economic turbulence, along with the impact of Covid-19, will contribute to an increase in cybercrime across South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria this year, according to Kaspersky experts. "Even though every country globally has had to deal with the pandemic in its...

Remote work, health monitoring to drive wearables growth

Worldwide end-user spending on wearable devices will total $81,5-billion in 2021, an 18,1% increase from $69-billion in 2020, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. The rise in remote work and increased interest in health monitoring during the Covid-19...

Used smartphone market set to reach $65bn by 2024

International Data Corporation (IDC) expects worldwide shipments of used smartphones, inclusive of both officially refurbished and used smartphones, to reach a total of 225,4-million units in 2020. This represents an increase of 9,2% over the 206.5 million units...

Last chance for SA expatriates to come clean with SARS

South Africans living or working abroad can no longer avoid the long arm of SARS. Under pressure to meet its revenue quotas, the tax authority has started auditing the country's non-compliant expatriates in earnest. "We have been warning expatriates that this was...

Intel introduces on-device facial authentication

Intel has introduced Intel RealSense ID, an on-device solution that combines an active depth sensor with a specialised neural network designed to deliver secure, accurate and user-aware facial authentication. Intel RealSense ID works with smart locks, access control,...

PC sales still on fire

With the pandemic still in full swing, traditional PCs (inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) were once again an in-demand consumer technology. The fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20) saw global shipments grow 26,1% year over year to 91,6-million units,...

Some good news on the tech horizon

In 2020, the future of technology arrived faster than anyone could have predicted. So for 2021, trends that might have been projected for 2024 are accelerating to the near horizon. As the pandemic revealed, being prepared for the unexpected is critical. That begins...

As Covid-19 peaks, healthcare comes under cyber-attack

At the end of October 2020, Check Point reported that hospitals and healthcare organisations had been targeted by a rising wave of ransomware attacks, with the majority of attacks using the infamous Ryuk ransomware. This followed a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued...

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