Shipping losses fall, but waters are still muddy

The international shipping industry is responsible for the carriage of around 90% of world trade, so vessel safety is critical. The sector continued its long-term positive safety trend over the past year but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the growing number of...

Ransomware hits more than half of SA companies

Sophos’s new State of Ransomware 2022 report shows that 51% of South African organisations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021. Forty-nine percent of the organisations that had data encrypted paid the ransom to get their data back, even if they had other...
Spectrum key to driving digital and economic transformation

Spectrum key to driving digital and economic transformation

It has been more than a decade since the significant release of spectrum for mobile broadband services in South Africa – a limitation that has impacted the industry and citizens in measurable ways. It has constrained growth within the telecommunications market...

NASA rocket aims to measure Earth’s life-supporting secret

Why does Earth support life, while Venus and Mars – and for all we know, any other planet in the universe – do not? “It’s one of the most fundamental questions in all of science: Why are we here? And it’s what Endurance is after,”...

Accessibility stymies SA smart home adoption

South Africa lags behind the world in smart home ownership, with a 23% gap between South African and global consumers when it comes to embracing the use of internet-connected devices to enable the remote monitoring and management of appliances and systems....

Good growth in global telecoms services but future is uncertain

Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services reached $1.566 billion in 2021, an increase of 1.6% year over year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker. IDC expects worldwide spending on...