Kaspersky research highlights that malware is rife across Africa with various countries exhibiting strong growth in all malware types in the first half of 2021, when compared to the same period last year. This is a 5% increase in the region, as cybercriminals and...

CES is set to go ahead in Las Vegas from 5 to 8 January 2022 - but only vaccinated delegates will be allowed to attend. More than 1 000 companies, including major brands and start-ups, have committed to be in Las Vegas, where CES 2022 will feature the latest tech...

EOH Holdings is to acquire 100% of Randburg-based value added reseller (VAR) Aptronics for a total of R194-million. Aptronics' core business is in the high-end data centre and end-user computing space and its services include networking, virtualisation, servers,...

More than 80% of banks surveyed recognize that online and mobile banking channels improve customer engagement - and 93% of banks expect customer satisfaction to improve if a high quality video banking service were to be implemented. A newly-released research report,...

As risks continue to pile up, companies are looking to their internal audit functions to deliver value by educating stakeholders on emerging risks and leading risk management practices that will improve the business. According to a recent report by PwC of over 1,600...

Insurers today need a unified platform to provide better and faster customer service at a lower cost if they want to turn sceptical millennials into loyal customers. According to senior executives from analytics company Verint, such a platform will help streamline...

Almost three quarters (73%) of companies globally are relying on standard endpoint security-class solutions to protect their virtual environments, which could lead to reduced performance and create an excessive load on their systems - with one-third of businesses...

SMEs should treat the personalisation of communications as a huge opportunity rather than focusing on the potential impact of poor communications as a risk to their businesses. This is according Jacques van Wyk, chief operating officer of Ricoh SA, writing that...

Facebook is opening up its platform to developers, and will focus on both artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality in its 10-year strategic plan. Chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer took the stage at the F8 conference this week to show the company's work...

The annual Entelect Challenge (formerly known as the Entelect 100K Challenge) has launched, and is more up for grabs in prize money this year, as well as a few important changes to the competition's structure which gives contestants a greater chance of walking away...