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...

Key genAI announcements affect global IT economies

Key generative AI (genAI) announcements made in recent weeks have the potential to significantly threaten cloud platform rivals and reshuffle the industry's AI ecosystem, while directives by national governments will impact global IT economies. This is according to...

Mobile a bright spot for Telkom

Telkom has reports group revenue up 3,8% to R10 668-million for the quarter ended 30 June 2023. Group EBITDA was down 4,2% to R2 235-million. Telkom Mobile saw positive growth, with mobile revenue up 5,2% to R5 448-million This comprises a 6,5% increase in mobile...

New energy vehicles sales grow by 50%

According to the latest research from Canalys, 160 000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) were delivered to customers in Europe in Q4 2019, a 52% increase over the previous year. Despite the growth, NEVs still only represented 4,4% of the 3,7-million cars delivered in Q4...

Latest oil demand fall the worst in history

World for the first quarter of 2020 is expected to decline by the largest volume in history - even exceeding the declines during the 2009 financial crisis. IHS Markit vice-presidents Jim Burkhard and Dan Evans, and executive director Das Premasish offer this...

Watson gets better language understanding

IBM has announced a number of new IBM Watson technologies designed to help organisations begin identifying, understanding and analysing some of the most challenging aspects of the English language with greater clarity, for greater insights. The new technologies...

Modest growth for enterprise WLAN

Worldwide revenues in the combined consumer and enterprise wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments declined 6,5% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19) and fell 3,9% for the full year. According to results published in the International Data...

ITU postpones key conferences at Covid-19 spreads

Given the global Covid-19 outbreak, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its partners have decided to postpone the dates for the upcoming World Information Society (WSIS) Forum (originally in April and now from 31 August to 4 September 2020), as well as...

Poor planning leaves companies unprepared for virus impact

Just 12% of more than 1 500 respondents believe their businesses are highly prepared for the impact of the novel coronavirus, while 26% believe that the virus will have little or no impact on their business. This is the shocking finding from a Gartner business...

Plan now for Covid-19 disruptions

With the spread of Covid-19, CIOs should focus on three short-term actions to increase their organisations' resilience against disruptions and prepare for rebound and growth, according to Gartner. "With such a dynamic situation like Covid-19, it has the potential to...

Earwear leads massive growth in wearable tech

The worldwide market for wearable devices grew 82,3% in the fourth quarter of 2019 (4Q19), reaching a new high of 118,9-million devices shipped according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. The massive...

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Senior JAVA Developer – Gauteng Centurion

Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.We are looking for a Senior JAVA Developer to join our financial services client based in Centurion.What you will be doing: Develop, maintain and...

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