New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation

Kathy Gibson reports - Actom has opened a new assembly line for locally-assembled LiFePO₄ battery energy storage systems (BESS). Yesterday, the company also announced that is expanding manufacturing capacity for its high voltage equipment. These moves are significant...

Herotel brings Amazon’s Leo satellite services to SA

Kathy Gibson reports – Herotel has signed a distribution agreement with Amazon to bring its Leo Constellation satellite service to South Africa. Set to go live in 2027, South Africa will be among one of the first countries in the world to connect to the low earth...

Social media the top culprit as deepfake fraud grows

Deepfake attacks are growing, and costing people more. Scial media is the main culprit

Muse highlights privacy, copyright issues in AI training

Copyright and privacy issues under the spotlight as Meta withdraws Muse feature

Why SA inflation should come down

Schroders believes that South Africa's inflation should come down, and monetary policy should start easing soon. By David Rees, senior emerging markets economist at Schroders Inflation in South Africa has continued to surprise to the upside in the past couple of...

IBM, universities in $100m pact to develop a quantum supercomputer

At the G7 Summit in Japan, IBM announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100 000 qubits. Quantum-centric supercomputing is an entirely new, and as of...

5G tests prove case for connected cars

Nokia has provided an end-to-end 5G portfolio to SoftBank to become first in the world to have successfully completed tests demonstrating that non-standalone 5G technology can be used to commercially operate connected cars. Using state-of the-art equipment from...

New CEO for iTMaster

Stanton Pillay has been appointed as CEO of iTMaster. iTMaster started life in 2001 in Polokwane. Today it has a staff complement of 150 people, with offices in all of South Africa’s provinces. Pillay joined the company in 2004 as a driver turn technician. He worked...

It’s getting easier for cybercrooks to access your networks

A massive 60% of initial entries into victims' networks that were observed leveraged either previously stolen credentials or known software vulnerabilities, allowing attackers to rely less on deception to gain access. This is one of the findings from the IBM's X-Force...

5G boosts spend as PC slowdown, Covid-19 slow growth

Worldwide IT spending is set to increase by 5% in constant currency this year as software and services investment remains stable while smartphone sales recover on the back of a 5G-driven upgrade cycle in the second half of the year. However, risks remain weighted to...

5G, mobile apps characterise this decade

5G will support more than 10% of the world's mobile connections by 2023, with an average 5G speed of 575 megabits per second, or 13 times faster than the average mobile connection. This is according to the latest Cisco Annual Internet Report, which notes that its...

China’s smartphone sales down, set to drop further

According to IDC's Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 366,7-million smartphones were shipped in the saturated China market in 2019, a 7,5% decline from a year ago. In 4Q19, 86,2-million units shipped, down 15,6% year-on-year due to both Huawei's large inventories as well...

This Valentine’s Day, beware malware in disguise

With Valentine's Day approaching, singles and couples alike are under intensifying pressure to solidify their plans for this Friday. While choosing the right partner is a matter of paramount importance, there is another matter that should be treated with care:...

Unemployment rate highlights jobs crisis

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) yesterday reported that South Africa's unemployment rate was unchanged at 29,1% during the fourth quarter of 2019. By Lullu Krugel chief economist at PwC Strategy&, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC Strategy& economist With this...

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