Refugees fleeing disaster zones could soon be living in temporary shelters made from 100% recycled materials, which will not only prove safer and more durable than tents but also help to reduce the plastic waste mountain. University of Birmingham sustainable...

Huawei has named the winners of the South African iteration of its annual Huawei ICT Competition, at the kick-off to its 2023 ICT Academy programme. The 2022-2023 ICT Competition is an ICT talent exchange event developed by Huawei for global college and university...

The Telecoms Academy confirms that 086 and 087 numbers have successfully been tested and ported in test environments. The company believes it will only be a matter of time for holders of these numbers, mostly corporate customers with large inbound call-centres, to...

Despite a slight improvement in the second quarter, South Africa's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are struggling under the lash of a tough economic climate. The Experian Business Debt Index (BDI), which reflects the relative ability for business to pay their...

Artificial intelligence (AI) for marketing, customer data platforms (CDPs) and realtime marketing are some of the technologies at the Peak of Inflated Expectations in digital marketing and advertising, according to Gartner. Among the 28 technologies represented in the...

During the second quarter of 2019 Kaspersky experts detected multiple mailshots pretending to be offers for tax refunds worldwide. This period is traditionally used as a deadline for filing tax returns and refunds in many countries. Using the scheme, criminals were...

Intel has announced that Baidu is architecting the in-memory database of its Feed Stream services to harness the high-capacity and high-performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC persistent memory. Paired with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, building a new...

Cell C's Take a Girl Child to Work Day (TAGCTWD) has announved the launch of its new online version of the campaign: the Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work Day Programme. The new online programme, which is available through the CellCgirl web portal, is designed to give...

Facebook has launched #SheMeansBusiness in South Africa, an initiative designed to inspire, empower and train female entrepreneurs to build, grow and start their own businesses. Working in partnership with Siyafunda CTC, the programme will offer practical training in...

The worldwide hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market declined 5,6% year over year with more than 22,2-million units shipped in the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker, both...