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...

Procurement offers opportunities for digital solutions

A good number of South African companies find themselves in a fairly precarious position when it comes to procurement because they have yet to properly integrate their basic processes - and their weaknesses have become more apparent during a pandemic that limits...

E-commerce proved to be a lifeline for retailers in 2020

As Covid-19 kept consumers around the world at home, nearly everything from groceries to gardening supplies was purchased online - leading to an additional $900-billion being spent in retail online around the world in 2020. Put another way: in 2020, e-commerce made up...

Airbnb aims for growth in SA

Airbnb has been officially launched in South Africa as part of the company’s plans to accelerate its growth in the country and on the African continent. “South Africa is an incredibly beautiful and diverse country, with so much to offer visitors,” says CEO Brian...

Workstations disappoint, but set to rebound

Workstation shipments in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region contracted by 3,4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2015. Global research and advisory company IDC expects the decline to extend to -5,2% for the full year. "The decline in Euro value is...

Cutting through the hype and ICT jargon

The ICT industry is particularly bad at using jargon that can confuse outsiders. Doug Crawford, manager: service delivery at Entelect, helps to decode technology buzzwords. Sometimes a buzzword emerges out of necessity – there simply is no other way to describe a new...

Trust key in consumer markets

An incisive new report has found that 61% of senior executives in the consumer markets industry have cited building consumer trust as a core value; and 32% say trust is, and will continue to be, one of their biggest challenges over the next one to two years – second...

Local Android devices make Google Play list

Mecer, one of South Africa’s best-selling desktop PC brands, has announced that three models of its Android tablets are now officially listed on the Google Play supported devices list. The models are the Mecer 101P51C, 800P31C, and TEI11011 – from the Mecer Xpress...

Employers ignore the threat from BYOD

BYOD (bring your own device) threats are still often overlooked by businesses. Many small-business owners believe BYOD poses no threat to their company and have no interest in spending effort on mobile device security, while employees themselves think security is the...

No skills, but are there jobs anyway?

South Africa needs more than 49 000 scalable SMEs, growing at a rate of 20% per annum, to create 11-million jobs by 2030 and meet the National Development Plan (NDP) target. This is according to Sean Jones, a co-founder and director of Artisan Training Institute...

Technology drives African financial services

The African financial services industry is rapidly evolving as a result of advancing technology which is fuelling innovation and growth in the sector. While the sector is mature in most developed countries, it is less saturated in Africa, therefore offering many...

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PHP Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg Region

Job DescriptionThe company is seeking a developer with experience in building scalable, high-quality and high-performance digital applications.The developer will form part of a team of professionals and will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining...

Server Specialist – KwaZulu-Natal

The Role: A position is available requiring a skilled and experienced server support [URL Removed] primary focus will be Microsoft and Linux related server environments.Responsibilities:Performance monitoring, reporting and tuning of server environmentDesign,...

Database Administrator – Gauteng Johannesburg Region

This role supports, maintains, and develops databases and their applications to support the systems, testing, QA and production environments.The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts. Desired Skills: MS SQL High Availablilty...

Senior IT Project Manager at Imperial – Gauteng Johannesburg

Imperial is an African focused provider of integrated market access and logistics solutions. With a focus on the following key industries - healthcare, consumer, automotive, chemicals, industrial and commodities - we take our clients' and principals' products to some...

.NET Developer at Outsurance Insurance Company – Gauteng Centurion

Responsibilities: You write understandable, testable code (with proven coverage) with an eye towards maintainabilityHelp perform code reviews on all pull requestsActively invest time in learning better process, practices and techniques for the benefit of your career...

Business Inteligence Analyst/Developer at Reverside

Job BriefThe Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst/Developer is responsible for building, implementing and supporting Microsoft BI solutions. The right individual will possess experience in all stages of BI project work (requirements and logical design, physical design,...

Systems Specialist Infrastructure

The Role: We are recruiting a Systems Specialist Infrastructure to join our team in Randburg, Gauteng.Role Objective:Configuring and managing servers of mainly MS operating systems, configuring, and managing servers of different Hyper-Visors, manage and support of AD...

DevOps Engineer (Senior) at Parvana Recruitment

Client Details: Our client is an international highly successful software development house with a niche focus in the telecommunications and payment gateway sector. With 20 years of proven success and phenomenal growth, this client has an incredible training and...

Senior Sales Application Engineer (Standby & Solar)

We are hiring a Senior Sales Application Engineer to prospect for new and maintain existing customers. Solicit orders by understanding their needs and submitting the relevant quotations/proposals for Railways, Petrochemicals, UPS and Telecommunication productsDuties...

Business Analyst – Western Cape Cape Town CBD

The Business Analyst is responsible for the reviewing and analysis of business requirements, performing system impact assessments, proposing solution designs, defining the scope thereof and the creation of functional specifications to meet the client's needs. He/she...

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