Mankind’s first journey to another star set for 2029 launch

Plans are underway for mankind’s first journey to another star – a trip that is expected to take about 80 000 years. The Fermi Explorer Mission, a nonprofit organisation, hopes to set off for Alpha Centauri by 2029. The more than 40-trillion kilometre journey is...

IT spend will breach $7trn for the first time in 2027

Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $7,35-trillion in 2027, up 15% from 2026, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Collectively, the market forces are reinforcing spend around AI infrastructure, AI-enabled cloud platforms, and advanced software...

As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

Business printer sales recover, set for growth

Sales of printers through European distributors were up strongly in June 2021 (by +17,2% in units year-on-year), and revenues grew even more (by +21,8%), according to the latest data published by Context. Consumer printers, which were in very short supply during April...

MTN ups the prize for business app of the year

In its 10th year of recognising app development, this year the MTN Business App of the Year competition will be giving away R1-million in prize money to entrepreneurs and app developers with creative ideas and solution-driven apps. "To mark the milestone of ten years...

Absa pilots social analytics platform

Absa Bank has launched an internal pilot of its social media and wider unstructured data analytics platform, Barclays Pronto, to select colleagues. Built in-house and entirely on open source technology, Barclays Pronto brings the voice of customers and other users...

Why you need disaster recovery

The average cost of downtime globally for mission-critical applications is almost $80 000 per hour. For non-mission-critical applications, this decreased to just under $60,000 per hour. This is according to the Veeam Availability Report for 2016, which finds that it...

Technology meets education at EduWeek

Intel is once again throwing its weight behind the EduWeek conference and exhibition, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary. The event will take place on 29 and 30 June at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg. EduWeek has signed a new...

UCT physics department chills right down

The Physics Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) recently acquired a Dilution Fridge, which is officially the coldest place in Africa with a temperature of 8,190mK (milli Kelvin) - or 122 times colder than the known naturally coldest place in the universe -...

AR system could help predict flooding

Fujitsu has built a river information system that incorporates augmented reality (AR) technology to help monitor water levels and warn against impending disasters. The system was developed for Manado in Indonesia, at the request of the Japan International Cooperation...

City, business can help to relieve M1 impact

The Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) urges both business and the City of Johannebsueg take a proactive approach to minimise the significant impact that the M1 freeway rehabilitation is going to have on road traffic. "While this is an essential...

Free WiFi for Cape Town Carnival

VAST Networks working with the City of Cape Town to provide all Cape Town Carnival spectators with free WiFi for the event on Saturday 12 March 2016. Grant Marais, CEO of VAST Networks, says: "We are thrilled to be able to work with the Carnival organisers for this...

New car sales set to decline in 2016

WesBank has forecast that total new vehicle sales will decline 12% this year. Compared to 2015's industry total sales of 617 691 vehicles, 2016 will end the year with total sales of 543 306 units. WesBank CEO Chris de Kock cites many of the current macroeconomic...

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Senior Developer – Eastern Cape Port Elizabeth

Design, Develop and Maintain softwareRecommend patterns and technologies to wider teamLiaise with project owners to help define business requirements.Participate in code reviews across all project teams Desired Skills: Degree or Diploma in Software Development 3-5...

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Mid C#.Net Developer (JHB) at Datafin Recruitment

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The primary responsibility of the TS Implementation Engineer is to ensure that client solution requirements are resolved in line with Service Level Agreements (SLA). They perform configurations, action installations and attend to break/fix events. Key Roles and...

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