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Book and check-in via WhatsApp? FlySafair is on it [promoted]
Never mind the convenience of a mobile app for booking and managing your flights: how great would it be to be able to do all that using WhatsApp? The customer-centric and innovative team at FlySafair are committed to driving digitisation while remaining agile and relevant – all while maintaining their…
Why Dell's next-gen PowerEdge servers change the game [promoted]
There are big technological changes happening in the sometimes arcane world of server computing, as Pinnacle ICT’s Ricky Pereira and Peter van der Merwe reveal in this episode of the podcast. Pereira, who is Pinnacle’s Dell Enterprise product manager, and Van der Merwe, a pre-sales engineer, unpack the new range…
Demystifying the complexity of AI – fact vs fiction [promoted]
There are many preconceived ideas and myths about what AI is and value it can or cannot bring to an organisation. This interview, with CallMiner vice president of AI Rick Britt, centres on a selection of myths around AI, what it is, and the value drawn from using it. Many…
How your organisation can triage its information security risk [promoted]
Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World, the largest benchmarking study of C-level cybersecurity decision makers, found that leaders who adopt a risk-based approach experienced considerably less breaches than others. Additionally, their time to respond to and mitigate a breach was significantly faster. To be considered a risk-based leader, organisations need…
The youth might just save us [promoted]
In order to effectively defend ourselves and our organisations’ critical assets, we need to increase the global cybersecurity workforce. According to the research compiled by Fortinet, 80% of organisations experienced at least one breach in the last 12 months that they could attribute to a lack of cybersecurity skills or…
Everything PC S01E06 - 'Apple Silicon'
In the final episode of season 1 of TechCentral’s Everything PC show, hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius discuss Apple’s decision to design its own chips for Mac. There’s no doubt that Apple’s decision to ditch Intel in favour of its own silicon designs – the chips are made by…
Everything PC S01E05 - 'Nvidia: The Green Goblin'
Nvidia is one of the most interesting – and controversial – companies in the computer industry today. In episode 5 of TechCentral’s new podcast series, Everything PC, show hosts Gerhard Pretorius and Duncan McLeod tackle the “Green Goblin” – Pretorius’s description for Nvidia – and have a look at why…
e4's Kevin Halkerd: Popia compliance should not be a checkbox exercise [promoted]
While we are all acutely aware of the Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia), are we considering the most appropriate approach to safe guarding our organisations against the risks and inevitable consequences? TechCentral spoke to Kevin Halkerd, information security officer at e4 Group, for his insights into what the Popia…
Everything PC S01E04 - ‘The story of Intel - part 2’
We continue our exploration of the Intel Corporation this week in episode 4 of Everything PC, this time looking at the current challenges facing the chip giant — and what comes next under the leadership of CEO Pat Gelsinger. In part 1 of this double episode of Everything PC, your…
The threat is real: CipherWave makes the case for Zero Trust [promoted]
Zero Trust. You’ve heard the term, but what exactly does it mean, and what are the benefits of adopting it as a security model? In this podcast, TechCentral’s James Erasmus is joined by CipherWave CEO Wayne D’Sa and chief cloud officer Casper van der Walt who share best practice in…
Wapa's Paul Colmer on why Icasa should open up 6GHz for Wi-Fi
The Wireless Access Providers Association (Wapa) recently called for government to free up vast tracts of radio frequency spectrum in the 6GHz band, claiming that doing so could drive a wave of economic growth. Wapa executive Paul Colmer joins the TechCentral podcast (listen below) to unpack why the association has…
Spectrum auction opens up big growth opportunities - Ruckus Wireless [promoted]
Having concluded a successful spectrum auction and collected more than R14.4-billion in proceeds, communications regulator Icasa has opened the pipeline for considerable economic growth in South Africa. TechCentral jumps straight into what this means with Riaan Graham, director for sub-Saharan Africa at Ruckus Networks, in this podcast interview. “Put the…
Everything PC S01E03 - 'The story of Intel - part 1'
In the third episode of Everything PC, we begin our adventure into the world of Intel, the company that in many respects started it all back in 1968. In this episode, the first of a two-parter, Everything PC hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius look at the storied history of…
Cybersecurity: mind the gap [promoted]
Huge skills gaps in the cybersecurity sector mean that self-starters who upskill themselves now could quickly put themselves on rewarding and lucrative career paths. TechCentral chatted in this podcast to Anna Collard, senior vice president of content strategy and evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa, about the company’s recent Cyber Security Skills…
Dean Broadley on why product design at Yoco is an evolving art [promoted]
Dean Broadley, head of product design at Yoco, an African technology company, talks to TechCentral in this podcast interview about why and how the firm has deliberately not painted all customers with the same brush, but rather built relationships and maintained trust as an open commerce ecosystem for small businesses…
Everything PC S01E02 – ‘AMD: Ryzen from the dead – part 2’
Welcome back to Everything PC, and to the second episode of this brand new South African podcast that’s aimed at computer enthusiasts and technologists. In the second part of a two-parter on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Everything PC hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius unpack the Silicon Valley company’s bumpy…
Everything PC S01E01 - 'AMD: Ryzen from the dead - part 1'
Welcome to the first-ever episode of Everything PC, a new South African podcast aimed squarely at computer enthusiasts. In this episode, the first of a two-parter, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius unpack why Advanced Micro Devices - the US chip company better known as AMD - is worth…
Llew Claasen on how exchange controls are harming SA tech start-ups
South Africa’s exchange control regulations and intellectual property transfer rules are harming the potential of South Africa’s start-up ecosystem. This is the view of Llew Claasen, co-founder – with Vinny Lingham – of venture capital firm Newtown Partners, who says the regulations make it difficult for venture capital providers to…
The inside scoop on OVEX's big expansion plans [promoted]
In this podcast, TechCentral talks to OVEX CEO Jonathan Ovadia and marketing lead Nicola Bergonzoli about the crypto company’s ambitious expansion plans in Africa. Ovadia unpacks OVEX’s plans to expand to 20 African markets by the end of the year and how the company intends getting there. With a trading…
Decentralised finance, the 'end of banks' - and what comes next
Simon Dingle and Steven Sidley believe a revolution is coming to the world of finance, and it could mean the end of banks – at least as we know them. Dingle and Sidley join TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod to discuss their newly published book on “decentralised finance”, or DeFi, and…