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The fourth wave of cloud is imminent
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Fast IO-Link Encoders with COM3
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SA innovation: delivering life sustaining oxygen efficiently
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Telkom has decided to withdraw Part A of the court application. Last month it...
Time to join the ML adaption curve
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5G spreads Covid-19 virus a myth
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Attacks targeting healthcare organisations spike globally
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The digital sensor age is here
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Temperature Sensors with Plug & Play
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Too big to care?
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Obsidian adds silver lining to cloud service adoption
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Kaspersky reveals two APT incidents related to vaccine research
In the autumn of 2020 (for the northern hemisphere), Kaspersky researchers identified two APT...
Six Tech Insights for 2021
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$20 Billion Market Comes into Sight.
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Small business resolutions to boost your cashflow in 2021
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Panel discussions
Three initiatives to make 2021 great
For the EngineerIT November Panel discussion we invited five businessmen from a wide spectrum of the world of work and asked their opinion about...
Jira can do everything but, it can’t make your coffee!
Jira software has been an integral part of the way that Obsidian Systems work. The evolution of a bug tracking tool to a fully...
Obsidian Podcast: If the shoe doesn’t fit, do you still wear it?
Obsidian Systems is an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, they started as Atlassian products users and are continually building solutions and solving customer problems. With the...
Teraco keeping African Traffic in Africa
Andrew Owens, peering and interconnection specialist at Teraco Data Environments, joined Hans van de Groenendaal, editor of Engineer IT, to virtually discuss a number...
EngineerIT
The slow-motion AI explosion
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for years. It has crept into systems and solutions with determined, algorithmic intensity, and it has layered its...
EngineerIT
Time to join the ML adaption curve
Machine Learning (ML) has become more commonplace in enterprises as the number of areas where it is effective grows. “If your organisation or vertical...
EngineerIT
Attacks targeting healthcare organisations spike globally
At the end of October 2020, Checkpoint reported that hospitals and healthcare organisations had been targeted by a rising wave of ransomware attacks, with...
ICT
Tech predictions and advisory for decisionmakers
A rush to fill the skills gap in order to benefit from an innovative future of greater AI, automation...
Security needs to sit at the heart of the organisation
Security remains a consistent and ever-present challenge to the organisation today. The statistics that follow in its wake are...
Microsoft launches two new Surface devices in SA
The Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3 deliver productivity, security, mobility and speed Microsoft is expanding its Surface device...
Fak’ugesi Festival 2020 is Powering Up Africa’s Resolution
#POWERTOTHEPIXEL 2020 invites artists to enter now!
The Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct and Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg has...
Cancelled Exhibitions? Keep markets focused on your company
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Live streaming platform to support creative industry
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Measurement & Instrumentation
SA innovation: delivering life sustaining oxygen efficiently
A group of South African doctors, engineers and designers based in East London has invented and developed a medical...
The digital sensor age is here
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Temperature Sensors with Plug & Play
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Too big to care?
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Data and analytics can model a football match
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Anritsu releases functional test solution of IVS
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Automation & Control
Ultra-Robust HMI Devices with IP67 Protection
Turck's TXF700 series now offers for the first time an ultra-robust HMI series with complete all-round protection to IP67...
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RFID is a ‘must-have’ technology
The benefits of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology are far-reaching, pertinent to many industries and for a variety of...
New automation platform eradicates the traditional boundaries between machine control systems, IT and the Internet of Things.
With the new ctrlX AUTOMATION platform, centralised and decentralised automation topologies can now be created flexibly. A Linux real-time...
Things just got real: 80% of businesses already use IoT platforms despite security risks
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Africa Automation Technology Fair 2021 aims at bringing the African Continent to South Africa
Headlined as a new immersive industrial automation and technology experience, the 2021 Africa Automation and Technology Fair will be...
Electronics
Cypress parts join Infineon portfolio
EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company. is now supplying key products from Cypress Semiconductor's portfolio, following the acquisition of Cypress...
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Free technology webinars
RF Design invites technocrats to free Marki Microwave technology webinars. 14 May 2020 at 15:00 SAST (SAST = local time...
Space scientists to coordinate respirator project
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition has mandated the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) to manage the...
Electric cars: thermal management bigger headache than batteries.
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iSERT becomes first Sigfox accredited test laboratory
iSERT, a company specialising in turnkey testing solutions for EMC, RF and safety testing, has collaborated with SqwidNet, the...
Gadgets4Geeks
Gadgets4Geeks – June 2019
Light on weight, big on sound LG’s XBOOM Go waterproof Bluetooth Speakers are designed with...
Gadgets4Geeks – May 2019
Wireless charging for gaming controllers Powercast’s Wireless Charging Grips are apparently the world’s first genuinely...
Gadgets4Geeks – March 2019
Durable speakers with extra bass Sony has launched the new SRS-XB41, SRS-XB31, and SRS-XB21 extra...
Gadgets4Geeks – February 2019
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Amateur Radio
Radio Amateurs turn to crowd funding for beacon projects
South African Radio Amateurs are turning to crowd funding for an ambitious VHF beacon...
Three amateur radio multi-mode beacons planned to study Tropo
Several years ago, the South African Radio League started a VHF workgroup with the...
Amateur Radio today as relevant as 95 years ago
Today 20 May 2020, Amateur Radio is still as relevant as 95 years ago...
Radio amateurs need a mindset shift
Since its inception, amateur radio has moved with technological developments and often led some...
Aerospace
Curiosity detects sunspots
In July 2015 NASA's sun-monitoring spacecraft STEREO-A was almost exactly behind the sun from...
SANSA calls for collaboration with industry
Speaking at a space and industry dialogue business breakfast, the CEO of the South...