AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

AI automation is having an impact on entry-level hiring

Nearly a quarter (22%) of CHROs report that at least one business leader in their organisation has stopped hiring for entry-level roles due to AI automation, according to Gartner. The 4Q25 Gartner survey of 110 heads of HR also found that 95% of organisations have...

Africa’s young people want jobs, clean government

Africa’s young people are more optimistic about the future of their countries, economies and the continent than at any point since the pandemic - but they are demanding jobs, cleaner government, safer communities, a stronger political voice and a model of democracy...

Even without data centres, Africa faces water bankruptcy

A new United Nations (UN) report says the world has moved past a water crisis into water bankruptcy – and Africa’s utility numbers already show what that looks like.

Privacy-preserving AI technique improves brain tumour detection

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning - a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach - to help international...

Sharp decline for African smartphone market

Newly-released data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Africa's overall mobile phone market suffered a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 19,9% in Q3 2022 to total 42,2-million units. The feature phone market was down 20,1% YoY to 24,4-million...

HCP growth highlights print potential

The overall Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) hardcopy peripherals (HCP) market posted robust year-on-year growth in both units and value in 2018, says IDC, with 5,44-million units shipped in the region in 2018 for a total value of $1,74-billion, up 8% and 6,4%,...

Safaricom in world-first 400G network rollout

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona - Kenya's Safaricom is to build the world's first end-to-end 400G backbone network. The network operator will deploy's Huawei's end-to-end systems as it upgrades its existing 100G backbone to increase traffic...

Youth prefer digital platforms for banking

Statistical data portal, Statista.com, estimates that the number of smartphone users in South Africa will reach 22-million in 2019 which is in line with FNB data indicating an increase in banking via digital channels by young people. According to the bank, customers...

WE sees steady server growth

Combined revenues from server computing products sold to enterprise customers through the distribution channel in Western Europe (WE) increased by 10,4% year-on-year in 2018, according to the latest distribution data published by research group Context. The product...

Calling all resellers: cast your vote now

It's that time of the year when the Channelwise Awards recognise and salute the cream of our industry.The annual awards are based on the valued and trusted opinion of South Africa's reseller community. "Please take the time to do the survey and vote to ensure that the...

AI and the move to democratisation

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona - Big data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) or other cognitive technologies are at the heart of the future smart enterprise. But enterprises are increasingly aware of the fact that AI could deepen the...

Rain rolls out Africa’s first commercial 5G network

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona - Rain has officially launched the first 5G network in South Africa, making it not only the first in Africa, but among the first global adopters of the technology too. Mobile data-only operator Rain has built the...

The societal impact of mobile money

Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona - Greater financial inclusion has a massive impact on lives, economies and innovation - especially in emerging markets. The GSMA today unveiled its eighth annual State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money,...

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