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...

Business Confidence Index ticks down

The RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) slipped by two points to 31 in the fourth quarter of 2023, with less than a third of respondents to the survey satisfied with prevailing business conditions. Business confidence was largely unchanged in three of the sectors,...

AI drives massive data centre investments

Kathy Gibson reports from Zagreb, Croatia - The data centre today is becoming an artificial intelligence (AI) factory, and this means organisations have to find new ways to quickly build capacity. This is the word from Vladimir Galabov, research director: cloud and...

Massive growth for global tablet shipments

The worldwide tablet market delivered solid results in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) with 24.9% year-over-year growth and shipments totaling 47,6-million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal...

MTN increases subscribers and revenues

MTN increased its subscribers by 12-million in the quarter ended 30 September 2020, to reach a total of 273,4-million. Active data subscribers increased by 5,3-million to 107,2-million, which active MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) customers increased by 3,5-million to...

Apple embraces 5G, but there are still challenges

Apple has integrated 5G into all four recently-announced iPhones. In the launching event, Apple demonstrated a fast speed up to 4Gbps on the iPhone 12 Pro, even when networks are crowded. The news sends a positive signal to the 5G industry, but many challenges await...

All the winners at the 2020 MTN Business App of the Year Awards

The reached an epic conclusion tonight, at its first-ever virtual awards ceremony. EasyEquities was announced as the overall winner of the ninth annual edition of the MTN Business App the Year Awards, topping a range of apps in the top spots across 15 categories....

DDoS attacks show signs of normalising

The number of DDoS attacks decreased in the third quarter of 2020, according to data from Kaspersky DDoS Protection. Analysis of commands received from command and control servers also demonstrates this decline. However, despite the overall stabilisation of the DDoS...

Emerging tech trends to watch in 2021 and beyond

The next decade will require CIOs to both respond to digital acceleration and proactively manage uncertainty, according to Forrester. Rapidly changing consumer trends, complex security concerns, the ethical use of artificial intelligence, and the increasing impacts of...

Vodacom opts for Nokia’s 5G services

Vodacom opts for Nokia's 5G servicesNokia it is enabling ultra-fast 5G services for Vodacom South Africa's customers by deploying its 5G radio, core and fixed network solutions across Vodacom's network. Vodacom is using Nokia's 2G, 3G, 4G and fibre access networks, as...

Is SA’s take-home pay back on track?

South Africa's take-home pay numbers appear to be returning to their normal levels, recording a slight increase as seen in the latest data from the BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI) for September 2020. The slight increases experienced over the past months mark...

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