Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...

Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

SA must put jobs at the centre of its AI future

South Africans are embracing AI, but turning that appetite into economic opportunity will require trained educators, reliable Internet, affordable access, recognised skills pathways, scaling of existing financing models, and investment in the country’s own languages,...

Workers turn to robots for career support

People are turning to robots to support their career development after the Covid-19 pandemic left them feeling lonely and disconnected from their own lives. An Oracle and Workplace Intelligence study of more than 14 600 employees, managers, HR leaders, and C-level...

Citizen satisfaction at five-year low

Consulta's 8th South African Citizen Satisfaction Index (SA-csi) shows that Citizen Satisfaction and trust in local municipalities to deliver basic services has dropped to its lowest ebb since the index's inception. Of the eight metropolitan municipalities polled in...

Telkom BCX goes live with SAP HEC

Telkom Business Connexion (BCX) today launched its SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud (HEC) solution in partnership with SAP Africa. Isaac Mophatlane, CEO of Telkom BCX, says the new offering complements the existing SAP services that the company has provided for the last 20...

Pokémon Go app threatens Android users

Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a new malicious app on the Google Play store: "Guide for Pokémon Go", capable of seizing root access rights on Android smartphones and using that to install/uninstall apps and display unsolicited ads. The app has been downloaded...

Demand for African peering grows

Pan-African terrestrial Network Service Provider, Workonline Communications, has seen increased demand since turning up remote peering services to the London Access Point (LONAP) Internet exchange point a little less than a year ago. London is one of the most densely...

Chinese wearables makers go global

China shipped 9,54-million wearable devices in the second quarter of 2016, an increase of 13,2% from the previous quarter and up 81,4% from a year earlier, IDC's China Wearable Device Market Quarterly Tracker, 2016Q2 report shows. Shipments of basic wearable devices...

Canned lion petition handed over

Four Paws has handed over a memorandum with more than half a million signatures, calling for an end to the barbaric and archaic practice of intensive breeding and hunting of ranched lions in South Africa, to Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party...

HPE, Dell lead declining server market

In the second quarter of 2016, worldwide server revenue declined 0,8% year over year, while shipments grew 2% from the second quarter of 2015, according to Gartner. There was some shuffling among the top vendors in the second quarter, as Dell moved into the top spot...

EOH reports impressive 2016 results

EOH has reported revenues up by 31% to R930-million for its 2016 financial year. Earnings per share (EPS) and headline earnings per share (HEPS) have grown by 25% and 25% respectively. Cash has increased by 17% to R1 949-million, and the dividend increased by 23% to...

Back to normal after El Niño

Not too hot, not too cold - instead, water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean should be just around normal for the rest of 2016, according to forecasts from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, or GMAO. With these neutral conditions, scientists with...

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