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...

Internal audit could be overstretched in 2021

Internal audit organisations are facing both declining budgets and a significantly expanded workload in 2020, according to a study by Gartner. "For many heads of audit, it's not clear where the extra capacity is going to come from," says Margaret Moore Porter,...

Double-digit growth forecast for smart home devices

Worldwide shipments of smart home devices reached 801.5 million units in 2020, an increase of 4.5% over 2019, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Shipments are forecast to surpass 1,4-billion in 2025...

Vodacom’s Neotel acquisition to go ahead

The Competition Commission has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that Vodacom’s intended acquisition of Neotel be approved, with conditions. Following the merger, Vodacom will have sole control over Neotel, which will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of...

Collins takes the reins at Acer Africa

Paul Collins has been confirmed as Acer Africa’s country manager. Collins previously held the position of commercial channel manager and, in his new role, will focus on the Acer growth areas within the education and government sectors, along with Acer’s continued...

Huawei debuts Digital inCloud in SA

Huawei has launched its Digital inCloud Eastern and Southern Africa regional centre, and announced that two South African service providers have already signed up to offer their apps to a global audience. GlobeTom will list its billing products, while GM Gaming will offer its gaming apps on the Huawei platform.

SA gets Apple Music at launch

Apple Music was yesterday rolled out to 100 countries, including South Africa. The new app is a streaming music service and worldwide live radio station from Apple broadcasting 24 hours a day, as well as a platform to allow music fans to connect with artists. Apple...

Unemployment burdens youth

While unemployment across the board in South Africa is increasing, the youth aged 15 to 34 have borne the brunt of the global economic crisis and the subsequent sluggish employment recovery with a higher unemployment rate than adults. According to Statistics SA’s report, National and provincial labour market: Youth – Q1: 2008 – Q1: 2015, the unemployment rate among youth rose from 32,7% in 2008 to 36,1% in 2011, and has remained between 35% and 37% every year.

200 days the average to ID cyber-attacks

Advanced cyber threats are the most serious security challenge retail organisations face. Despite these concerns, retailers struggle to identify attacks once within the network, according to a new Ponemon Institute Survey, sponsored by Arbor Networks. Known as “dwell” time, the time it takes to identify these attacks is, on average, 197 days for retail organisations. Despite this, 71% of the retail organisations surveyed said they are not optimistic about their ability to improve these results in the coming year.

Facebook opens Africa office in Jo’burg

Facebook has opened its first office in Africa, based in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, and headed up by Nunu Ntshingila. The office will support the significant growth in businesses and people using Facebook. The service’s active user population in Africa has grown 20% to 120-million in June 2015 from 100-million in September 2014. More than 80% of these people access Facebook from their mobile phones.

Connected products drive new revenue streams

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought with it increased focus on "connected products”. As manufacturers work to retrofit existing products with connectivity and build it into new products, they are faced with the question of how these connected products...

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