Pandemic drives privacy concerns and benefits

The importance of privacy protections is enhanced during the pandemic, and there are increasing benefits for businesses that adopt strong privacy measures. This is according to Cisco’s 2021 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, which analyzed the responses of 4 400...

Covid puts pandemics squarely in the risk spotlight

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that it will be imperative for businesses to reprioritise risk and to innovate and explore new risk management strategies. An Aon survey, “Reprioritising Risk and Resilience For a Post-Covid-19 Future”, finds that 82% of...

The ongoing race for drones in the upper atmosphere

In 2017, after four years of setbacks and crashes, Alphabet shut its project flying solar-powered fixed-wing drones in the upper atmosphere to beam the internet to those cut-off. Facebook then exited its similar project. And Alphabet has now dumped its...

Huge set to make a firm offer for Adapt IT shares

Adapt IT has confirmed that Huge Group intends to make a firm offer to acquire or any of its shares. The company has constituted independent board of directors, consisting of Craig Chambers, Oliver Fortuin, Zizipho Nyanga and Catherine Koffman for the purpose of the...

5G phones will account for 35% of sales in 2021

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users will total 1,5-billion units in 2021, a 11,4% growth year over year, according to Gartner. “In 2020,consumers reduced spending on smartphones but availability of new products, will see users drive significant uptick in...

Chinese smartphone market declines as Huawei loses ground

The smartphone market in Mainland China finished 2020 with 84-million units shipped in Q4 2020, declining 4% year-on-year. That meant for the full year, the China market declined 11% to arrive at just over 330-million units, as market recovery was stalled by the rapid...