South Africans under increasing attack by fraudsters

A massive 68% of South Africans have been targeted by email, online, phone call or text messaging fraud in the last three months, with 13% saying they had become victims. Among those who said they were targeted, the most common reported schemes were phishing, where...

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic...

Joburg is still Africa’s top data centre location

Johannesburg officially confirmed its position as Africa’s digital infrastructure powerhouse. The new Cushman & Wakefield 2025 Global Data Centre Market Comparison ranks Johannesburg as the continent’s leading data centre market and places it in the top 10...

IBM unveils scalable, fault-tolerant quantum roadmap

IBM is on track to deliver scalable quantum computing by the end of this decade. Scientists from the IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, believe they have cracked the science for quantum error correction and will be able to build the world’s first...

SA young scientists to compete at Taiwan International Science Fair

Innovative research projects by South African young scientists focused on AI-driven customer insights and sustainable plant propagation solutions, will be on display at the Taiwan International Science Fair 2025. More than 600 young scientists from 27 countries...

How much content governments ask Google to remove

Government requests for content removal on Google climbed to nearly 330 000, with an annual average growth rate of 34% since 2020. This is according to a global Surfshark study, which found that the number of requests has more than doubled, having started at over 44...

Vodacom to boost network in KwaZulu-Natal

Vodacom is investing over R800-million this financial year on building new network sites, modernising its mobile networks, full fibre broadband rollout, and energy projects to accelerate its broadband connectivity throughout KwaZulu-Natal - including new sites in deep...

Phil Duff to step down as SA’s Syspro is sold

Syspro, the South African software company that became a global success story, has been sold to private equity investor Advent International for an undisclosed sum. Syspro was founded in September 1978 by brothers Phil and Chris Duff, who spotted a gap in the market...

AI key for effective security

Kathy Gibson reports - Artificial intelligence (AI) has a huge role to play in securing our future. This is the word from Callan Abrahams, principle AI consultant at iOCO, speaking at the Veeam Unplugged event in Johannesburg. “We spend a lot of time talking about the...

Data resilience at the heart of business survival

Kathy Gibson reports – There are four key structural trends in the industry today, shaping the industry and making the role of IT more challenging. The first is explosion of data. “In the digital-first world, every company is a software business,” says Brendan...

Warming could destroy Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is under significant pressure, with warming sea temperatures and mass coral bleaching events threatening to destroy the remarkable ecology, biodiversity and beauty of the world's largest coral reef, according to new research. Led by University...

IBM, WWF harness AI to save endangered species

IBM and the World Wide Fund for Nature - Germany (WWF) are to work together to explore developing a new solution to support the monitoring of keystone species - starting with the critically endangered African forest elephant. Combining IBM's expertise in...

Strong growth forecast for 5G in healthcare

The global 5G in healthcare market is expected to reach $454,7-billion by 2030 - expanding at a CAGR of 40,5% from 2024 to 2030 - according to a new report by Grand View Research, which says the IoT ecosystem is developing and is expected to enable networks to connect...

Scammers prey on business travellers

As a business traveller, you carry more than just your laptop: between your tech, your corporate credit cards, and your watch, you could be toting around R50 000 to R200 000 in value. That's quite the tempting target for those with less-than-honest intentions....

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Smart locker growth to mirror e-commerce boom

The smart locker industry is about to undergo a similar growth surge to the one we’re currently experiencing in South Africa. By Herman Meyer, technical director of Ricoh South Africa Much of this is a result of the change in work and buying patterns as a result of...

SA cybersecurity experts recognised on a global stage

IronTree has received The Acronis #CyberFit Loyalty Award in the US, given to partners for working and continuously growing with Acronis for over five years. This is the second year in a row that IronTree was recognised at the annual Acronis Cyberfit Summit in Miami....

Deloitte wins 2022 Regional and Global AWS Partner Award

Deloitte Africa has been named as Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) EMEA Partner of the Year at the 2022 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning/ Artificial Intelligence Regional and Global Partner Awards. The award recognises leaders around the...

Zoho launches Blended Conversations for Zoho Desk

Zoho has launched new tools for Zoho Desk, the anchor application in the company's customer service platform, to help customer service teams evolve with the changing needs of customers and meet heightened business expectations. Zoho Desk, which has achieved 40%...

How to strengthen the supply chain

Relationships are key to building enduring supply chains and driving value, writes David Steyn, customer engagement business manager at Decision Inc. The supply chain has changed. Digital transformation has shifted the ways in which companies and individuals engage...

Avoid these pitfalls when managing hybrid cloud environments

The uptake of the cloud has been anything but linear. Some early adopters migrated everything, only to discover that not everything was suitable to sit in the cloud, and many ended up having to move critical data and systems back in-house. By Marius Maritz, technical...

December is a time to recharge but what about the planet?

Those of us who are lucky enough to be traveling this December are looking forward to a well-earned break. It may be somewhere along our staggeringly beautiful coast, in our majestic mountain ranges, or to one of our many game and nature reserves. Mother nature's...

An even more challenging cybersecurity landscape is on the horizon

If Check Point Software's Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023 are anything to go by, then next year will see even more global cyberattacks, government regulation, and consolidation of security solutions take place than we have ever seen. By Lindsay Blackie, channel...

Rebuilding trust and efficiency in the public sector

The public sector plays by different rules. Unlike the private sector, where customer service and differentiation by excellence are mandatory for survival, the public sector has a de facto monopoly on the services that it delivers. If a citizen has a negative...

Don’t let cybercriminals ruin the holiday cheer for your kids

While parents and schools have measures in place to keep children safe at school, on the playground and at home, it's important to remember cybercriminals don't take a break during weekends and school holidays, writes Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO of ESET South Africa....

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