AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...

AI leaders join call for a slowdown in new developments

The call for a global slowdown on artificial intelligence (AI) development is gaining traction, with the leaders of the some of the world’s largest AI companies adding their voices. On Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dr Dario Amodei penned an essay calling for AI companies to...

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...

How scammers use phishing kits

In 2021, Kaspersky researchers blocked 1,2-million individual phishing pages based on 469 phishing kits - which are ready-made fake page templates - that allow cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks effortlessly. Since a phishing site can be blocked quickly,...

15m new jobs needed to combat Africa’s unemployment crisis

More than 15-million decent jobs must be created for Africa by 2025 if governments are serious about making a dent in its unemployment crisis, according to a new charter launched today. The People's Charter on Jobs in Africa - created by the Jobs Now Africa Coalition...

WannaCry hero arrested for Kronos malware

The man hailed as a hero for discovering the WannaCry ransomware kill switch has been arrested in connection with another malware program. UK researcher Marcus Hutchins was credited with identifying how to disable WannaCry and potentially saving millions of...

Cloud, IoT, security drive WiFi investment

Investments in WLANs continue unabated, driven by growth in users, a shift toward mobile devices and wireless access, adoption of IoT, and the need for greater security and network performance. Security in particular is the number one network change by a wide margin,...

Top five, plus one, drive smartphone growth

Preliminary data from IHS Markit shows that the global smartphone market grew by 7% year-over-year, to 350,9-million units, from 320-million units in Q2 2016. Leaders of the pack Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Oppo and vivo all grew, while Xiaomi reversed its recent...

iPhone shipments return to growth

Samsung continued to lead the worldwide smartphone market in Q2 2017 with shipments of over 79-million units, leaving growth relatively flat. Apple held on to second place by shipping 41-million iPhones, increasing its annual shipments volume by 2%, despite...

Data must fall campaign has merit

The South African mobile communication services market needs more regulation to encourage competition in order to instil a free and open environment, which will then lead to better and more affordable pricing. This is according to Chris Daffy, chief commercial officer...

Manufacturers take to IIoT

Driven by globalisation, intensifying competition and rising customer demand for more options and higher quality products, a connected plant floor has become a necessity, and the number of organisations achieving a fully connected factory is expected to rise...

Africa’s biggest data centre set to open

Having broken ground in February this year, Teraco will go live with its new data centre - the biggest commercial facility in Africa - in November. Teraco's Riverfields Hyperscale Centre east of Johannesburg boasts more than 24MW of power and 6000m² of technical...

Cognitive computing improves IT security

Kathy Gibson at the IBM Watson Summit 2017 in Kyalami - Cybercrime is out of control, it is a systemic problem and it is getting worse. In fact, it is estimated that about 4-billion records were breached last year because of cyber-attacks. But why is it happening,...

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