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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Sluggish tablet market sees third year of decline

Jun 8, 2023

Global spending on all IT devices including PCs, tablets, and mobile phones has slumped by a massive $122-billion in the past two years, falling from $807-billion to an expected $685-billion in 2023. And while smartphone, laptop, and desktop PC sales revenues are set...

Demand for resiliency, automation drive European software growth

Jun 8, 2023

The European software market grew by 15% year on year in 2022 despite economic turbulence and global instability. This represented the highest growth in the last 20 years, demonstrating the resiliency of demand for software in the face of major macroeconomic factors....

Drones and the cybersecurity threat

Oct 28, 2019

With estimates that between 30 000 and 50 000 drones are currently being operated in South Africa, security experts advise that unmanned aerial vehicles have punched a gaping hole in existing physical and IT security strategies. Interpol warns that the potential use...

Intel debuts Tremont microarchitecture

Oct 28, 2019

Intel has revealed the first architectural details related to Tremont, the newest and most advanced low-power x86 CPU architecture offering a significant performance boost over prior generations. "Tremont is Intel's most advanced low-power x86 architecture to date,"...

Microsoft wins $10bn Pentagon deal

Oct 28, 2019

The Pentagon has awarded a $10-billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft. All the major cloud providers bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) in a process that was racked with controversy. The JEDI system will store and process classified data...

Why this could be a very scary Halloween

Oct 28, 2019

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should be spooked this Halloween. By Aaron Thornton, MD of Dial a Nerd As you carve out your pumpkins and contemplate the sweet rewards of trick or treating this year, we invite you to prepare a pumpkin in honour of your small...

Decision Inc partners with Certent

Oct 28, 2019

Decision Inc has partnered with Certent, a provider of software and services for equity compensation and financial disclosure management and reporting, to enable the global leader in information-driven transformation to further strengthen its financial planning and...

Beware of cryptocurrency scams

Oct 28, 2019

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace and digital wallet provider, Paxful, is shining the spotlight on the escalating need for security awareness amongst users when trading in digital currency. As criminals become...

Business demands more responsive networking solutions

Oct 25, 2019

New technologies are set to fundamentally change the way networks are designed and used, and IT has to align more closely to business needs. These are among the findings of a Cisco survey asking more than 2 000 IT leaders and network strategists how they plan to...

5G set to add security problems

Oct 25, 2019

An overwhelming majority of cybersecurity and risk management leaders believe that developments in 5G wireless technology will create cybersecurity challenges for their organisations. Their top three 5G-related concerns are greater risk of attacks on Internet of...

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