Machine learning as a subset of Artificial Intelligence is an emerging trend in South Africa, with demand for data scientists rising sharply and university programmes incorporating the discipline in study programmes. However, still a long way... FULL STORY >

The end goal for this database is to pool together photos and videos used by terrorist organisations to recruit people via social media. FULL STORY >

Internet Solutions, the pan-African communications service provider, today announced that through its parent company Dimension Data (Pty) Ltd, it has entered an agreement to acquire the business of MWEB Connect (Pty) Ltd. for... FULL STORY >

Anglo American plc has consolidated three separate data rooms into one smaller, more efficient and easier to monitor data centre. This project has allowed the globally diversified mining business to reduce floor space... FULL STORY >

Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, today published its top IT predictions for 2017, and the focus on digital is set to remain the key trend in the industry for the next 12 months. FULL STORY >

Going from a research project and grand idea to delivering its first fully fledged test, HP's The Machine shows how memory and photonics can work. FULL STORY >

Hinging heavily on public APIs, Twitter is making a concerted effort to keep its users’ data safe from developers creating surveillance tools. FULL STORY >

The vast amount of data generated and collected each day is staggering, and data’s ability to align and grow companies within any single industry – even across industries – is truly unprecedented. Innovation Groups’ Andries van Staden discusses Big... FULL STORY >

the power of computing is moving to the cloud. You don’t need a powerful, clunky machine anymore because data is being accessed through even more powerful infrastructure built around the incredible processing power that now exists... FULL STORY >

Data storage technology company, Verbatim Ltd. - a wholly-owned company of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation - has transferred its South African entity to CrossAfrica Holdings (Pty) Ltd, as a going concern, with effect from 1 October 2016. FULL STORY >

Selling data, data analytics and providing information for good is a business that TransUnion has been involved in for well over a century which only makes its sustainable value that much more apparent, even before digitisation saw data... FULL STORY >

The October Deal of the Month from Telkom is termed as a "broadband bargain" that offers 15 GB of mixed data over a 24 month contract. What can you do with this deal then? FULL STORY >

TechSmart spoke to Megan Nicholas, managing executive: Telkom Consumer and Mobile, about the company's Deal of the Month offers, and their latest 'broadband bargain' for October. FULL STORY >

The growing maturity around the Internet of Things, the massively increasing number of connected devices, the explosion of video, social media, user generated content have all resulted in exponential growth in the amount of data at our... FULL STORY >

Jason Baldwin, consulting director at Acceleration, shares his insight on the benefits of unifying data in order to improve the customer experience. FULL STORY >