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...

SA users aware of online privacy issues

Almost a fifth (18%) of online users in South Africa always give apps and services permission to access their microphone or webcam, according to a global study of 15 000 people conducted by Kaspersky. However, overall awareness of webcam security is promisingly high,...

Data volumes set to grow faster than storage capacity

The amount of data created and replicated experienced unusually high growth in 2020 due to the dramatic increase in the number of people working, learning, and entertaining themselves from home. This is according to the annual DataSphere and StorageSphere forecasts...

E-commerce lags in SA, says ISP

All indicators reflect that e-commerce in SA is still in its infancy compared to the rest of the world. This is according to Dieter Febel, MD of the ISP SA Gateway, who adds: “Frankly, compared to the rest of the world, we are not even close. Research shows that there...

Dino sheds light on Gondwana

South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new early dinosaur from South Africa. The specimen was found in the late 1930s in the Zastron area of South Africa, about 30km from the Lesotho border. For a long time the remains of the dinosaur just languished on the shelves in the collections at the Evolutionary Science Institute (ESI) (then the Bernard Price Institute) in Johannesburg. A few years ago it was studied and considered to represent the remains of another South Africa dinosaur, Aardonyx.

SA set for massive IP growth rates

South Africa will have about 27-million Internet users by 2019, up from 15-million in 2014. At the same time, South African IP traffic will grow six-fold by 2019, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 44%, according to the 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index...

Lifestyle leads interest in connected homes

Most people have a strong interest in the idea of a truly connected home, with health and wellness being among the areas of greatest interest. This is one of the findings from an Ericsson ConsumerLab study, Connected Homes, which examined attitudes to connected homes,...

C-suite must lead customer engagement

C-suite-led customer experience (CX) initiatives can increase revenues and customer satisfaction while reducing costs. Genesys has released a global study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit with 516 senior level executives in 21 countries to explore the...

Telkom debuts flexible Voice bundles

Telkom has introduced a range of mobile voice bundles aimed at offering customers greater flexibility in managing their fluctuating business and personal voice usage demands without incurring the higher cost of out-of-bundle voice minute usage. Now, once customers have depleted their available voice allocation, they can purchase voice bundles at an in-bundle rate instead of having to go out-of-bundle at a higher rate. This flexibility allows customers to better manage their spending and offers more value for voice calling.

Contract cancellations blocked, says Cell C

Cell C says it’s concerned that there are deliberate attempts by some of the other network providers to prevent customers from cancelling their contracts early by charging these customers excessive and unreasonable cancellation penalties. In a statement, the network...

Human error is the biggest security risk

Carelessness was the primary root cause of data breaches in 2014, according to a report released by IBM and the Ponemon Institute. A staggering 40% of breach incidents involved a negligent employee or contractor. The root cause of 38% of incidents involved a malicious...

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