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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...

The latest issue of Channelwise is out. We cover where the channel stands as we enter the second half of 2025; how we ca...
13/07/2025

The latest issue of Channelwise is out. We cover where the channel stands as we enter the second half of 2025; how we can solve the IT skills crisis; updates on storage and accessories; and the women driving FD's Microsoft team.

Meet the women driving First Distribution's Microsoft Team, IT skills development" challenges and opportunities, accessories in the spotlight, a focus on storage, and the 2025 state of the Channel.

First they mapped the human genome, now researchers are looking for ways to create their own. And it could happen within...
27/06/2025

First they mapped the human genome, now researchers are looking for ways to create their own. And it could happen within the next decade …

A team of UK-based scientists are developing technology to create the first synthetic human chromosome. The ability to write large genomes has the potential to transform our understanding of human health, opening opportunities to develop cell therapies, climate-resistant crops and more. Ever since t...

AI has become a big part of our working lives, but with some significant gaps. A new BCG X study unpacks AI's impact on ...
26/06/2025

AI has become a big part of our working lives, but with some significant gaps. A new BCG X study unpacks AI's impact on work.
Boston Consulting Group

Kathy Gibson reports – While artificial intelligence (AI) is being integrated into most types of work, there are signs it might be flagging. This is among the headline findings from BCG X’s AI at Work report, which uncovered some unexpected trends as companies start integrating AI into their wor...

Maybe time to think about changing your passwords?
21/06/2025

Maybe time to think about changing your passwords?

What’s believed to be the single biggest data breach ever – a massive 16-billion records – has been exposed. Investigators at Cybernews, which uncovered the breach, believe the records are scattered across 30 different databases, and some records are or might be overlapping. Importantly, this ...

has overcome the major scientific hurdles, and believes it is now on track to build the world’s first large-scale faul...
10/06/2025

has overcome the major scientific hurdles, and believes it is now on track to build the world’s first large-scale fault-tolerant computer before the end of this decade.
IBM

IBM is on track to deliver scalable quantum computing by the end of this decade. Scientists from the IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, believe they have cracked the science for quantum error correction and will be able to build the world’s first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum...

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