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...

4th Gen AMD EPYC powers Amazon EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, which offer next-generation performance and efficiency for applications that...

Adobe co-founder Dr John Warnock dies

Adobe co-founder, Dr John Warnock, died on Saturday (19 August 2023), at the age of 82 Dr Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, new technology that sparked the desktop...

Still serious misunderstandings about Covid-19 in SA

Despite a ubiquitous presence in news coverage and headlines and concerted testing and awareness campaigns by the government, South Africans are still not entirely sure about how the Covid-19 coronavirus works. A survey conducted by gig economy company M4Jam and...

Telecoms spend should be flat at $1,6bn

Based on its latest Black Book release, International Data Corporation (IDC) expects telecommunication services spending to reach $1,6-billion in 2020 with nearly flat growth compared to 2019. The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the market in several ways. On the...

SophosLabs uncovers fleeceware apps hitting iPhones

A new SophosLabs report, "Don't Let Fleeceware Sneak into Your iPhone", shows how Apple device users are being targeted by applications that overcharge users through costly subscriptions or unscrupulous in-app purchases. Sophos calls this kind of app "fleeceware" and...

22m business hacks in the last week

According to data compiled and analyzed by Atlas VPN, hackers attacked businesses more than 22-million times during the last week worldwide. More than 63% of these hacking attempts were malware attacks. On average, there were 3,26-million cyberattacks daily throughout...

Pandemic drives rise in banking fraud

Amidst a pandemic, Investec is warning businesses and consumers to be on the lookout for online fraud and phishing scams as fraudsters try to take advantage of Covid-19. "Given the speed at which organisations are being forced to respond to the pandemic, the rise of...

Major dive in vehicle production expected

Global commercial vehicle production (GVW 4-8) volumes in 2020 compared to 2019 are forecast to be down 22% (more than 650 000 units) to 2,6-million units, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the most recent analysis from IHS Markit. Individual regional...

Which DJs’ names are most used to hide malware?

The current situation, when most of the global population is forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, has already had huge effects on the electronic music industry. As major music events like Coachella, Ultra, SXSW, Glastonbury, Time Warp have either...

EOH disposes of remaining 30% of CCS and LSD

EOH has disposed of its stakes in Construction Computer Software (CCS) and LSD Information Technology (LSD). Both transactions will strengthen the group's balance sheet in line with EOH's strategic intent. In July 2019, EOH Mthombo sold 70% of its shares in CCS to...

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