Vodacom launches Eco-Warriors Sustainability Competition
Vodacom South Africa has launched the Eco-Warriors Sustainability Competition, a nationwide learner-led initiative set to mobilise the country’s next generation of environmental leaders. Targeting Grade 9 to 11 learners from Vodacom-supported Schools of Excellence...
SA users continue to invest in crypto
South Africans continue to demonstrate an appetite for cryptocurrency, with more than 530 000 new customers signing up to Luno in the past 12 months. This brings the platform's South African user base to over 6,3-million, out of 15-million customers worldwide. Luno's...
Intel powers PC refresh with silicon-based security
In 2025, it is expected that millions of business PC users will be getting new laptops or desktops. Indeed, this calendar year is expected to be one of the largest computer refresh cycles in recent history, even larger than 2020’s COVID-19 surge driven by remote work...
UCT Professor gets OBE for infectious disease research
Professor Robert J Wilkinson, an honorary Professor in the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Medicine, has been named an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE). The accolade, announced in the UK’s New Year Honours List 2025, is...
California rules that AI can’t deny health insurance claims
The US state of California has passed a law that ensures health insurance claims cannot be denied by artificial intelligence tools alone. This follows widespread anger at how many claims are arbitrarily rejected, many of them by autonomous AI tools. Last year alone,...
Solar probe touches the Sun
Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on 24 December 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just 6,115-million kilometres (3,8-million miles) above the surface of the...
Enterprise WLAN continues growth streak
The enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market grew 5,8% between the second and third quarters of 2024 to reach $2,5-billion, according to results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker. The...
Slight uptick forecast for global car sales
Global new light vehicle sales in 2025 are expected to rise 1,7% year-over-year, to 89,6-million units, according to a new forecast by S&P Global Mobility. The global auto sector remains focused on managing production and inventory levels in response to regional...
Six vendors dominate the SASE market
The global secure access service edge (SASE) market reached $2,4-billion in 3Q 2024, according to a report from Dell’Oro Group. The top six SASE vendors - Zscaler, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom, Fortinet, and Netskope - each with greater than 5% revenue share,...
Big growth for pharmaceutical data and analytics
The global data and analytics market in the pharmaceutical sector was valued at $1,1-billion in 2022 and is forecast to grow to $2,1-billion by 2028, driven by data and content management. According to GlobalData’s latest report, “Market and Opportunity Forecast to...
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Account takeover fraud on the rise
Banking fraud management has always been dynamic, fast paced, and complex, writes Toby Carlin, senior director: fraud, cyber and compliance at FICO. Fraudsters are constantly evolving their tactics to adapt to changes in the banking landscape and exploit weaknesses...
Emerging markets and the bumpy ride to digitisation
Emerging markets have been following the digitisation race. However, a lack of a user-oriented approach when designing e-services has been slowing down their progress, resulting in poor user engagement and unfulfilled expectations of citizens. According to Mindaugas...
Lower sales could mean higher profits
Businesses don't need to sell more products to increase revenues, they should rather focus on selling higher quality products with a longer life. The key lies in the circular economy, writes Wale Arewa, CEO of Xperien, which not only promises higher profits but...
Cellphone snatching on the rise
Opportunistic crime is on the rise and so is the trend of cellphone snatching. Brazen criminals are willing to risk life and limb to snatch a R20 000 smart phone and make off with it - phones left on tables right next to you in restaurants, in vehicles hooked up to...
Truck driver shortage threatens global supply chains
The transportation of goods and products is integral to the functioning of South Africa's economy. As demonstrated during July's unrest, any pause in the movement of essential goods from suppliers could lead to calamitous shortages of vital supplies and food,...
Pinnacle launches online pre-Black Friday specials
Black Friday is coming (26 November), and resellers are looking to secure stock now to make sure they can meet customer demand. Pinnacle wants to help its partners get full stocked ahead of the day and is making a range of pre-Black Friday deals available through its...
First Distribution takes Citrix CSP into Africa
First Distribution (FD), the leading pan-African distributor for Cybersecurity, Datacentre, Enterprise, Networking and Cloud solutions, has expanded its Citrix footprint beyond South Africa with its appointment as a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) distribution partner...
Omnisient wins African startup award
Omnisient has been recognised by US-based Startup City as one of Africa's Top Ten Startups, having recently also won Best Brand Award from the World Marketing Congress, and achieving a second round of funding in July 2021. Based in San Francisco, Startup City aims to...
Ukheshe partners with African tech unicorn
Fintech enablement partner Ukheshe Technologies has announced a new partnership with Chipper, one of Africa's most valuable startups, to enhance and accelerate the rollout out of Chipper's digital payment offerings. These include free and unlimited P2P payments across...
Disruptive behaviour can cost your career
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What will you do?The role of IT Risk Manager resides in the Governance, Risk and Business Engagement function of the company that is responsible for Governance and IT Risk Management within the company. The IT Risk Manager will be actively involved in defining,...
Senior Remote Systems Engineer
Seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with proven experience in Managed Services (MSP) environments. Key Requirements Minimum 3 years of experience in an MSP environment (essential)Strong experience with Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, Security &...
Technical Support Architect at Parvana Recruitment – Remote Remote
About our client:Our client, a listed global leader that provides innovative solutions, is committed to helping some of the world's most well-known brands tackle their most pressing business challenges. With a reputation as a trusted partner to global organisations,...
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What will you do?The role of IT Risk Manager resides in the Governance, Risk and Business Engagement function of the company that is responsible for Governance and IT Risk Management within the company. The IT Risk Manager will be actively involved in defining,...
Senior Remote Systems Engineer – Gauteng Pretoria Region
Seeking a Senior Systems Engineer with proven experience in Managed Services (MSP) environments. Key Requirements Minimum 3 years of experience in an MSP environment (essential)Strong experience with Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, Security &...
Technical Support Analyst at Parvana Recruitment
About our client:Our client, a listed global leader that provides innovative solutions, is committed to helping some of the world's most well-known brands tackle their most pressing business challenges. With a reputation as a trusted partner to global organisations,...
IT Risk Manager
IT Risk ManagerThe role of IT Risk Manager resides in the Governance, Risk and Business Engagement function of the company that is responsible for Governance and IT Risk Management within the company. The IT Risk Manager will be actively involved in defining,...
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Seeking a mid-level Security Engineer with 3-7 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations. Key Requirements 3-7 years' experience in information security or a related roleProficient in cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001) and remote workforce...
Technical Support Analyst at Parvana Recruitment – Remote Remote
About our client:Our client, a listed global leader that provides innovative solutions, is committed to helping some of the world's most well-known brands tackle their most pressing business challenges. With a reputation as a trusted partner to global organisations,...
IT Risk Manager – Western Cape Cape Town
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