Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis

A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...

A third of employees laid off due to AI will need to be rehired

As AI continues to accelerate the pace and scope of work, CIOs must prepare for four shifts that will influence the future of work, says Gartner. “When business and IT executives look back on the early AI-era, they will realise their greatest mistake was believing...

IT channel pivots to add value as AI takes off

Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle TechScape - Artificial intelligence (AI) may be at the peak of the hype cycle, but this doesn’t detract from the value that the technology will bring to the industry. That’s the word from Tim Humphreys-Davies, CEO of Pinnacle, who...

Network to the fore as agentic AI adoption takes off

In the era of agentic AI, the network is becoming the critical foundation for trust, security and the seamless operating models through which people and AI can build the future. However, as organisations move quickly to gain an advantage from AI, a significant gap has...

Global IT spend on track to reach $4,4trn this year

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4,4-trillion in 2022, an increase of 4% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. "This year is proving to be one of the noisiest years on record for CIOs," says John-David Lovelock, distinguished research...

Digital processes the new normal for procurement

Investment in digitalisation of procurement functions has brought mixed levels of success for organisations. This is one of the findings from PwC Global's fourth edition of its global study of the digitalisation of procurement functions, which polled more than 800...

Malware targets taxi, ride-sharing apps

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new modification of the well-known mobile banking Trojan, Faketoken, which has been developed and is now able to steal credentials from popular taxi applications. The mobile app market is growing and offering more and more...

Discover Digital buys IKON Interactive CMS

South African on-demand solutions provider, Discover Digital International (DDI), has completed its acquisition of Turkish firm IKON Interactive's content management solution (CMS) and source code, in a multi-million dollar deal to support its aggressive international...

Cell C reshuffles board

Following its recent recapitalisation, Cell C has appointed Kuben Pillay as its new chairman and Larry Nestadt as deputy chairman. "We are honoured to have two of South Africa's most astute business leaders join the Cell C Board at a time when the company enters a new...

Adobe outlines Flash end-of-life plans

Adobe has announced the end-of-life (EOL) for Flash, the once-ubiquitous plug-in that played a pivotal role in bringing video and gaming to the Web. Adobe plans to stop updating and distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020, and is encouraging content creators to...

Innovation: Disrupt or optimise?

Every 60 seconds, the world creates an average of 98 000 tweets, 695 000 Facebook updates, 11 million instant messages, 168 million emails and over 1,820 terabytes of data which today's businesses have to search through to find trends in order to build products and...

Trend for wider smartphone screens grows

The trend in equipping newer smartphone designs with wider screens is giving rise to the 18:9 aspect ratio, with the display shipments expected to reach 611-million units by 2021, according to the latest analysis by IHS Markit. The Samsung Electronics Galaxy S8...

Fewer deaths from terror attacks in 2017

During January to June 2017, a total of 10 352 non-militant fatalities were caused by non-state armed groups, down 20% from 13 025 deaths in the previous six months, according to a new report from IHS Markit. "While the number of fatalities dropped significantly in...

SAIPA argues against scrapping maths

The South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) has expressed its concern about the proposed amendment to repeal the compulsory offering of accounting with mathematics. The Department of Basic Education published a notice on 21 July in the Government...

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