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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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Malicious IoT botnet activity skyrockets

Jun 8, 2023

IoT botnet DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) traffic, originating from a large number of insecure IoT devices with the aim of disrupting telecom network services for millions of users, increased five-fold over the past year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine...

Township consumers prioritise value over brand loyalty

Jun 8, 2023

As residents adapt to a number of challenges including high unemployment, power cuts, poor service delivery, and rising food prices, South Africa's townships are seeing a significant shift in consumer behaviour with a growing preference for value over brand affinity....

Joburg slowly comes back online

Oct 29, 2019

The city of Johanneburg says its systems are slowing coming back up following last week's ransomware attacks - and it has no intention of paying the 4-bitcoin ransom demanded. Starting on Thursday 24 October, city employees attempting to log on to their computers were...

Content providers and the war against fraud

Oct 29, 2019

South Africa's mobile content and applications industry is steadily winning the war against fraudsters attempting to target local cellular users with unauthorised micro-billing. This was communicated to an assembled gathering of the world's leading players in direct...

CIOs must get to grips with CEO concerns

Oct 29, 2019

Gartner has identified re-globalisation, economic slowdown and "digital dithering" as the top three concerns for CEOs in 2019. CIOs need to understand these concerns and address them in their strategic planning over the next 12 to 18 months, says Kristian Steenstrup,...

Drought still reigns in Cape Town

Oct 29, 2019

Recent torrential rains have led to Cape Town's dams reaching 82,9%, up by 3,3% from the previous week. Although this was a welcome boost, rainfall this winter was still below average. Collective water consumption for the past week has decreased to 625-million...

CEOs turn attention to climate change

Oct 29, 2019

Climate change has emerged as the most frequently mentioned theme among the world's leading CEOs on Twitter, with 200% growth in conversations from the second quarter (Q2) to third quarter (Q3) of 2019. An analysis of GlobalData's CEO Influencer platform, which...

Vodacom sends R3,5m for drought relief

Oct 29, 2019

Vodacom has committed R3,5-million to the Eastern Cape government's drought relief funds, aimed at assisting drought-stricken municipalities in Eastern Cape as the province is grappling with the worst drought in 15 years. The commitment follows a productive engagement...

SITA signs up Microsoft for government cloud

Oct 28, 2019

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and Microsoft South Africa have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which paves the way for government adoption of public cloud services. The MOU, announced at Govtech in Durban, allows for government departments,...

AI set to guide autonomous ship across the Atlantic

Oct 28, 2019

IBM has joined a global consortium of partners, led by marine research organisation ProMare, that is building an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship that will cross the Atlantic on the fourth centenary of the original Mayflower voyage in September 2020. The Mayflower...

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