A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

AI and the human factor

Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 – Artificial intelligence (AI) still needs people to be able to function properly. This is the word from Peter Blignaut, manager: pre-sales at SAP South Africa, who points out that computers can do nothing without instruction....

BMW boosts modernisation, productivity with automation

Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 – BMW South Africa has saved a massive 60 000 days in application modernisation as a direct result of intelligent automation. Intelligent automation can help to address challenges in SAP custom codes, says Arndt Hoffman, chief...

Will homes on the Moon and Mars be made of fungi?

Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand. But the reality may be even stranger - and "greener". Instead of habitats made of metal and glass, NASA is...

New head for Google SA

Google South Africa has appointed former Ogilvy SA chief executive Alistair Mokoena as its new country director. He will take up the position in April and oversee the commercial business for Google SA. Google Africa director Nitin Gajria says the company is excited to...

Microsoft plans to eliminate its carbon footprint

Microsoft has announced an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by...

Cloud IT infrastructure spend declines but beats non-cloud

Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments - including public and private cloud - declined in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19). This was against the backdrop of the overall IT...

In 2020, everyone is at risk from cyber-attacks

Cryptomining, botnets and ransomware are still the biggest security threats that businesses face. This is according to Check Point Research's 2020 Cyber Security Report, which highlights the main tactics cyber-criminals are using to attack organisations worldwide...

Scammers latch on to data leak compensation

Kaspersky experts have detected a new online fraud scheme designed to trick people into thinking they are owed compensation. Under the pretext of offering compensation for personal data leaks, scammers instead urge users to buy 'temporary US social security numbers'...

Online reviews key in customer service

A new report underscores how increasingly important it is for local businesses to engage effectively with the rapidly-growing number of consumers who leave online reviews on multiple social media platforms. Martech firm Social Places has released its first Annual...

Surprising growth in industrial 3D printing

Shipments of Industrial 3D printers priced at more than $100 000 were up by +8% in Q3 2019 compared to the same period the previous year. This key sector - which accounted for almost 70% of all 3D printer revenues for the period - saw even more impressive shipment...

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