How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Plenty of room for players in the VR headset market

Global shipments of virtual reality (VR) headsets grew 52,4% year over year in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21), according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker. Standalone headsets,...

Vodacom Business Africa extends pan-African network to South America

Vodacom Business Africa has taken a step into Brazil, increasing its fixed-connectivity coverage to five continents across the globe. The trans-Atlantic connection has been made possible through the undersea South Atlantic Cable System, the first to directly link the...

Business inkjets see solid growth

Business inkjet shipments maintained their momentum in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15) with 2,2-million units shipped and 16,3% year-over-year growth. The overall worldwide hardcopy peripherals market recorded a year-over-year decline of -6.3% in 3Q15, according to...

Asteroid makes Xmas Eve flyby

Asteroid 2003 SD220 will safely fly past Earth today (24 December) at a distance of 6,8-million miles (11-million kilometers). Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have generated the highest-resolution images to date of this asteroid...

China leads manufacturing changes in 2016

Innovations in nearly every sector are setting the stage for technology market growth and even more rapid change in 2016. Shifts in global technology manufacturing trends and processes -- with an even greater emphasis on the manufacturing powerhouse of China -- will...

Financial services spend hits $114bn

According to a new IDC Financial Services Insights Perspective, Worldwide Financial Services 3rd Platform IT Spend 2014-2019 – Opportunities Abound, the financial services industry spent $114-billion worldwide on mobility, cloud, and big data and analytics (BDA)...

Skills key to Africa’s development

With a high unemployment rate, Africa is sitting on a largely untapped pool of resources that has the potential to drive economic growth. The problem, says Pitso Kekana, head of public affairs and corporate citizenship for Samsung Africa RHQ, lies in both the lack of...

1bn cellular M2M subscribers by 2022

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the global number of cellular M2M subscribers increased by 23% during 2015 to reach 265,2-million at the end of the year. Over the next five years, the installed base of cellular M2M devices is...

Huawei hits 100m smartphones in 2015

The Huawei Consumer Business Group shipped more than 100-million smartphones worldwide in 2015. Over the last five years, shipments of Huawei's smartphones have increased more than 3 000%, from 3-million in 2010 to 100-million in 2015. This year’s performance...

Thin client market in decline

The global thin and terminal client market deteriorated during the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), declining -6,7% year over year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. Shipments continued to be...

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