Intel co-founder Gordon Moore dies

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore dies

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation report that he died peacefully on Friday, 24 March 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii. Moore and his longtime colleague Robert Noyce founded...

Smartwatches spur strong regional growth for wearables

The Middle East and Africa wearables market experienced strong annual growth in both unit and value terms for the whole of 2022, according to newly-published insights from International Data Corporation (IDC). The latest edition of the firm’s Worldwide Quarterly...

New phishing method drives 40 000 new attacks

An evolution in phishing attacks now leverages popular businesses and services to infiltrate people’s inboxes. Named “Phishing Scams 3.0”, this method involves attackers using actual legitimate services to execute their attack, according to Check...

SA consumers use digital-only money transfers, but want choice

Two in three (64%) consumers in South Africa prefer using digital-only platforms when transferring money internationally, according to Western Union’s inaugural Global Money Transfer Index. But looking to the future, being able to choose between digital and...

Cloud diversity adds data management complexity

IT infrastructure is increasingly diverse, with organisations challenged with integrating data management and control. This is according to Nutanix’s fifth Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with cloud...

Waning consumer confidence drives renewed rental opportunities

The national vacancy rate – the number of residential rental properties standing vacant – increased from a low of 6,92% in the third quarter of 2022 to 8,13% in the fourth quarter, according to the TPN Vacancy Survey for the fourth quarter of 2022. The...