MEA’s PC shipments on a 15-year high

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, recorded incredible year-on-year growth of 36,6% in the first quarter of 2021 — the highest annual growth seen in the...

Chip shortage fails to dent global PC growth

Despite ongoing concerns around semiconductor shortages the PC market continues to be one of the many consumer technology markets that is thriving. According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device...

Edge computing critical to analytics success

Edge computing has been identified as a critical factor that businesses must harness to both successfully navigate and understand data both now and into the future. According to a new Intel report, “The Edge Outlook”, industries can extract real business...

Green Software Foundation aims to put sustainability first

The Green Software Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft and ThoughtWorks, has been set up with the Linux Foundation and the Joint Development Foundation Projects to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and...

Africa Cyberlympics 2021 pre-qualifier is now open

The Africa Cyber Defense Forum (ACDF), a continental platform for public-private cooperation, today announced the launch of the annual Cyberlympics pre-qualifying round, sponsored and facilitated by CompTIA. The pre-qualifier is open to African nationals of any age...

Global tech provider M&A activity set for boom

By 2022, the level of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity involving technology providers will surpass previous highs recorded in 2018. According to Gartner, acquisitions of tech providers were briefly impacted in 2020 by the onset of the pandemic, but...