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...

Fintech investments plummeted during pandemic

The year 2020 was a challenging year for many fintechs. The global slowdown in funding caused by the Covid-19 led to a significant drop in the number of venture capital deals and brought uncertainty for many companies operating in this market. According to data...

Euro smart home market bounces back

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the smart home market in Europe grew 12,2% compared to the same period of 2019, according to research by International Data Corporation (IDC). 41,3-million units were shipped to the region between October and December. "After a negative...

KZN university wins MTN challenge

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has won the inaugural MTN SA Foundation ICT Challenge and the overall National Championship title at the recent Enactus National Competition 2015. The championship title has qualified UKZN to represent South Africa at the...

Western Cape signs LAN deal with Sizwe

The Western Cape government signed a five-year LAN (local area network) contract with Sizwe Africa IT Group, for the provision of LAN equipment and services to schools in the Western Cape. Premier Helen Zille and Minister Debbie Schäfer say in a joint statement that...

Gloomy picture for SA jobs

Although unemployment improved during the second quarter of 2015, overall figures paint a gloomy picture. Statistics SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the second quarter of 2015 show that South Africa’s working-age population was 36-million people, 15,7-million employed, 5,2-million unemployed and 15,1-million “not economically active”.

Load shedding the main concern for SMEs

Frequent and prolonged power failures are the top concern for South Africa’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs), overtaking other pressing concerns like access to finance, competition and crime.This is one of the findings from the SME Survey 2015, released today,...

SMEs take to the cloud

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are recognising the benefits offered by cloud computing and, in 2015, 39% of them are using cloud services – up 10% from 2014. This is according to Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, releasing results from the latest SME...

Internet of Things drives software shift

The Internet of Things (IoT) is turning many manufacturers of "things" into first-time software vendors that need licensing and entitlement management (LEM) solutions, according to Gartner. By shifting product value from device hardware to the software running on the...

Tablet market continues global decline

The worldwide tablet market declined -7% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15) with shipments totalling 44,7-million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Marked by little...

Chinese currency payments on the rise

Recent SWIFT data shows that the number of South Africa’s Renminbi (RMB) payments increased by 33% over the last 12 months and by 191% over the last two years. In June 2015, 31,3% of direct payments value between South Africa and China/Hong Kong were in RMB versus...

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