Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

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...

Vehicle hijacking levels continue to rise

Tracker's vehicle crime statistics for the period July to December 2021 reveal that the nature of vehicle crime has changed. For the past three years, hijacking has been on the rise and has overtaken theft as the predominant percentage of vehicle crime activities....

Top 5 automotive technology trends for 2022

Research group Gartner has identified the top five technology trends for 2022 that CIOs need to consider to better prepare for the software, hardware and digital transformations occurring in the automotive sector. "For the last 100 years, automakers have focused on...

Opera invests $100m to grow Africa’s digital economy

Mobile browser developer Opera plans to invest $100-million (R1,3-billion) over the next two years to facilitate the growth of African digital economy. The company will use the investment to speed up internet adoption in Africa and strengthen the Internet ecosystem...

ZACR gears for mass deletion of org.za domains

ZA Central Registry (ZACR) confirms that 12 677 org.za domain names are set to be deleted on 1 September 2017. This is after 15 420 org.za domain names were suspended on 1 September 2016 following an extensive pre-deletion public awareness campaign by ZACR. Deletions...

Things you didn’t know about SA’s interest rate

Maura Feddersen, economist: financial risk management at KPMG in South Africa, lays to rest four common misconceptions about South Africa’s interest rate policy Unsurprisingly, South Africans keep a close eye on the outlook for interest rates. Local consumers are...

New streaming video service debuts in SA

A new video on demand (VOD) player, JustFlicks, has launched in South Africa, targeting the mass market with the largest catalogue of titles at an affordable price. The technical platform for JustFlicks was developed last year. Recent approval from the Film &...

Telkom expects earnings to be higher

Telkom expects its earnings to be higher for the financial year ended 31 March, according to trading statement from the company. The prior year’s reported earnings were impacted by voluntary severance packages (VSPs) and voluntarily early retirement packages (VERPs)...

Van Graan joins Altron board

Stewart van Graan is joining the board of Altron as a non-executive director. Van Graan retired from Dell last month, having worked for the PC vendor for the last 14 years and becoming Enterprise Systems vice-president for EMEA and emerging markets. This portfolio...

The IT outlook for 2017

Kathy Gibson at IDC’s CIO Summit in Johannesburg – Forecasts for 2017 have been affected by turmoil in South Africa and the world at large, and CIOs may need to reconsider what they can expect to see in the industry this year. Business confidence had dropped before...

The challenges and opportunities in blockchain

Kathy Gibson at IDC’s CIO Summit in Johannesburg – Blockchain goes way beyond bitcoin, and some pundits are calling it the future of the Internet. It is certainly a reality, says Mike Rosen, vice-president: research strategic architecture at IDC. In South Africa,...

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