A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

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...

Tesla overtakes Samsung’s market cap

It took electronic vehicle manufacturer Tesla at least four times fewer years to amass a higher market capitalisation than South Korea's electronic giant Samsung, according to data calculated and analysed by Finbold. By 23 March 2021, Tesla was only 18 years old with...

Acer believed to have been hit by ransomware

Acer is believed to have been compromised by the REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware group. The notorious ransomware group is on a spree, with at least nine victims in two weeks, says Candid Wuest, Acronis vice-president of cyber protection research. The list of victims is...

Cell C voices concern on Vodacom-Neotel merger

Cell C has issued a statement voicing its concern that, since the apparent approval of the Vodacom-Neotel transaction, ICASA has not published its decision nor explained the reasons for this decision. “With the exception of comments attributed to the outgoing...

Novatel aims to buy out Digicore

US-based machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions provider Novatel Wireless has made a bid to buy out South African telematics supplier Digicore Holdings. The two companies have published the firm intention from Novatel to make an offer to acquire (either itself or through...

CA buys Agile developer Rally Software

CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rally Software Development, a provider of Agile development software and services, for $19.50 per share, which equates to approximately $480-million, net of cash acquired. The transaction has been...

Child porn case ready for court, say police

An investigation into child pornography in South Africa is ready for trial, police have told the regional court in Knysna. William Beale (37) appeared in the court this week on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography images, and the state indicated...

Beware of new jobs scam

The Gauteng Provincial Government has issued a warning to the public about a scam by impostors who use the name of Premier David Makhura and make promises of jobs, investment opportunities and social grants. The imposters have created a fictitious Yahoo e-mail address...

IBM commits to open source Spark

IBM has announced a major commitment to Apache Spark, potentially the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data. At the core of this commitment, IBM plans to embed Spark into its industry-leading analytics and commerce platforms,...

Enterprise app demand to exceed supply

By the end of 2017, market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organisations’ capacity to deliver them, according to Gartner.
Gartner forecasts mobile phone sales will reach 2,1-billion units by 2019, which will fuel demand for apps in the enterprise that meet the high performance and usability of consumer apps. Gartner principal research analyst Adrian Leow says enterprises find it a challenge to rapidly develop, deploy and maintain mobile apps to meet increasing demand, as it is exceedingly difficult and costly to hire developers with good mobile skills.

Millennials are overhyped in retail

Retailers should stop obsessing over Millennials and instead turn their attention to older generations with greater financial power. This is according to Forrester's Sucharita Mulpuru, who argues in new research that many of the opportunities and challenges...

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