NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Gloomy outlook for global economies as geopolitical tensions worsen

Coface’s latest risk review, Rates Against the Machine, has confirmed what the world dreaded just a few months ago has come to pass – rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again. This, Coface says, puts upward pressure on commodity...

Banks are still missing the links between fraud and money laundering

Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report...

A year into Covid, how are people coping with rising costs?

After a full year of battling the Covid-19 pandemic, the cost of living for South Africans has become an issue that is as pressing as the country's need for vaccination rollout. For many, who have either lost regular work as a result of lockdown restrictions and...

Huawei commits to cloud business in SA

Kathy Gibson reports - 2020 was a tough year for Huawei as US sanctions took their toll, but the company still managed to grow its business. This is the words from Stone He, president of Huawei Cloud (Southern Africa), who adds: "We have already built our Plan B - we...

Face-to-face contact key for CRM success

A new IDC Financial Insights study, Branch Transformation in a Digital World, highlights that bank branches can elicit more customer retention and more cross-selling than any other method as the time to talk to customers remains the best way of understanding how to...

CMOs pay lip service to customer obsession

Marketers pay lip service to putting the customer at the centre of everything they do - but, in practice, many roadblocks still stand in the way of making customer obsession a reality. In a new Forrester/ANA survey of 61 marketing leaders, 87% agree that adopting a...

More women are gaining access to credit

More women than ever before are entering into the world of credit, according to data from credit bureau Compuscan which shows there has been a steady and significant increase over the past two years in the number of credit-active women in South Africa. Jacobus...

Yahsat closer to expanding African services

Yahsat has announced a major milestone in the construction of its third satellite, Al Yah 3, due to be delivered by the end of 2016 to expand broadband services across Brazil and Africa. In partnership with Orbital ATK, Yahsat has now completed the Critical Design...

Microjobbing site buys online researcher

M4Jam (Money for Jam), the microjobbing platform, has acquired digital market research company Pondering Panda for an undisclosed amount. Co-inciding with M4Jam’s first anniversary, the acquisition will see the two companies joining forces to harness the power of the...

Decline in printer sales expected, says IDC

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multi-function (MFP) market decreased 2,6% in unit terms compared with the same period a year ago, with negative performances on both inkjet and laser segments but in line...

Massive Android flaw uncovered

Check Point Software Technologies has uncovered a vulnerability in Android that affects devices made by major manufacturers including LG, Samsung, HTC and ZTE. The team disclosed its findings during a briefing session at Black Hat USA 2015 in Las Vegas this week. “Certifi-gate” is a vulnerability that allows applications to gain illegitimate privileged access rights which are typically used by remote support applications that are either pre-installed or personally installed on the device.

IT professionals are still in high demand

The number of IT jobs advertised in Q2 2015 in South Africa has increased by 3% compared to Q1 2015.  This is according to figures from the Robert Walters South African Jobs Index, which charts vacancy numbers posted to online platforms, has revealed that the demand...

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