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Africa Tech Festival, together with a host of sideline events, wraps up today in Cape Town.Africa Tech Festival
13/11/2025

Africa Tech Festival, together with a host of sideline events, wraps up today in Cape Town.
Africa Tech Festival

Cape Town hosted the 2025 Africa Tech Festival this week. Kathy Gibson attended to find out what the continent can look forward to in the coming months.   AI key for Africa to unlock youth dividend By 2030, more young Africans will enter the workplace than the rest of the world combined – and it....

Recognising the importance of developing next-generation data centres to drive digitalisation and improve its economies,...
05/11/2025

Recognising the importance of developing next-generation data centres to drive digitalisation and improve its economies, the Data Centre Associations of Europe are working together to keep the continent competitive in the global market.
https://it-online.co.za/2025/11/04/europe-stands-united-in-data-centre-race/
Vertiv

Kathy Gibson reports from Tognana, Italy – Europe is standing as one in the development of a globally competitive data centre industry. At a meeting of Data Centre Associations hosted by Vertiv, industry leaders came together to identify common issues and areas of collaboration. Recognising that d...

In a constrained market, where consumers face massive financial stresses, gambling is taking its toll as South Africans ...
29/10/2025

In a constrained market, where consumers face massive financial stresses, gambling is taking its toll as South Africans bet more of their incomes – and experience significantly higher default levels.
A study by Experian and Vault22 uncovers the stark realities.
Experian South Africa Vault22

Kathy Gibson reports – Online gambling, a very topical and sensitive subject at the moment, is having a negative impact on consumers. A new study by Experian and Vault22, using reliable and representative data, concludes the gambling is a challenge for South African consumers, and is one of the fa...

Boston City Campus once again scooped CompTIA’s top partnering award, joining a pantheon of winners across various categ...
10/10/2025

Boston City Campus once again scooped CompTIA’s top partnering award, joining a pantheon of winners across various categories.
Boston City Campus CompTIA, Inc. Eduvos SA Northlink College The Good Work Foundation RISA Sol-Tech Digital Youth ICT Academy New Horizons Nigeria Digititan Hein Wagner Academy Netcampus CTU Training Solutions

Kathy Gibson reports – Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to have a profound impact on how we learn, what we learn and how we teach. This is the word from Kobus Olivier, senior manager of Boston City Campus, speaking at the biennial CompTIA Partner Awards held last night in Johannesburg. He poi...

African authorities, working with security companies and Interpol, have arrested 260 scammers in a pan-African cybercrim...
26/09/2025

African authorities, working with security companies and Interpol, have arrested 260 scammers in a pan-African cybercrime operation.
Trend Micro Home Interpol

Authorities in 14 African countries have arrested 260 suspects and seized 1 235 electronic devices in a coordinated international operation against cyber-enabled crime. The crackdown targeted transnational criminal networks exploiting digital platforms, particularly social media, to manipulate victi...

Nvidia is investing $5-billion in Intel stock as the two companies sign a deal to jointly develop multiple generations o...
19/09/2025

Nvidia is investing $5-billion in Intel stock as the two companies sign a deal to jointly develop multiple generations of custom datacentre and PC products to accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets.
NVIDIA Intel

Nvidia and Intel have announced a collaboration to jointly develop multiple generations of custom datacentre and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets. The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting Nvidia and Intel architectures...

South Africa’s online retail market is on track to hit R130-billion this year – and will soon account for 10% of all ret...
12/09/2025

South Africa’s online retail market is on track to hit R130-billion this year – and will soon account for 10% of all retail sales.
This is according to Arthur Goldstuck, presenting the Online Retail in South Africa 2025 study by World Wide Worx, with Mastercard, Peach Payments and AskAfrica.
Arthur Goldstuck, Author and Speaker World Wide Worx Mastercard

Kathy Gibson reports – Online retail is set to account for 10% of all retail spend in South Africa within just a few months, reaching a value of R130-billion by the end of this year. Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, points out that the online market was worth R96-billion in 2024, and accou...

Nazia Pillay has taken over the reins of SAP Southern Africa, tasked with steering the software giant through a challeng...
10/09/2025

Nazia Pillay has taken over the reins of SAP Southern Africa, tasked with steering the software giant through a challenging and dynamic business and technology landscape.
SAP

By Kathy Gibson – Nazia Pillay has been confirmed as the MD of SA Southern Africa, taking the reins at a particularly crucial time for the IT industry. Technology has seen exponential leaps over the last couple of years, and Pillay points out that SAP customers have to negotiate not only the dynam...

South African channel partners got the inside story on IBM’s new Power 11 at a Johannesburg launch today. The new techno...
30/07/2025

South African channel partners got the inside story on IBM’s new Power 11 at a Johannesburg launch today. The new technology promises to improve customers’ productivity and reduce costs, while paving the road to full artificial intelligence (AI) value.
First Distribution IBM

Kathy Gibson reports – IBM’s Power 11 launch is one of the company’s most significant in recent years: the new technology promises to improve customers’ productivity and reduce costs, while paving the road to full artificial intelligence (AI) value. The last couple of years have seen massive...

High-profile users alike – including South Africa’s National Treasury and the US’s weapons agency - have fallen victim...
24/07/2025

High-profile users alike – including South Africa’s National Treasury and the US’s weapons agency - have fallen victim to a newly-uncovered vulnerability in , which nation-state actors are believed to be exploiting.

High-profile local and global sites alike have fallen victim to a newly-uncovered vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint. In South Africa, National Treasury is among the customers affected, while international users like the US nuclear weapons agency have also been targeted. The Microsoft Security Re...

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