Coronavirus fears drive spread of malware

The presence of the novel coronavirus has been confirmed in the UK for the first time as the UK’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, confirms that two people from the same family had tested positive for coronavirus. While concerns of the spread of coronavirus...

SA set to spend $26bn in IT

Overall IT spending in South Africa is set to reach $26,4-billion this year, up 2,5% on 2019. That’s according to the latest predictions revealed by International Data Corporation (IDC) at its IDC Directions 2020 event. IDC’s associate vice-president for...

Workforce disruption presents opportunities for African businesses

The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings about great change, driven by the interdependent forces of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), network-based logic, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality and quantum computing. This has led to many...

Ginni Rometty steps down as IBM CEO

Ginni Rometty is stepping down as CEO of IBM, with Arvind Krishna yesterday named to assume the role from 6 April. Rometty, who has worked for IBM for 40 years, will continue as executive chairman of the company and will serve until her retirement at the end of the...

Coronavirus reaches the web

Kaspersky detection technologies have found malicious files disguised as documents related to the newly discovered coronavirus – a virus disease which has been at the top of media headlines due to its dangerous nature. The discovered malicious files were masked...

Stable economic growth for Africa

Africa’s economic growth remained stable in 2019 at 3,4%, and is on course to pick up to 3,9% in 2020 and 4,1% in 2021, according to the African Development Bank’s (AfDB.org) 2020 African Economic Outlook (AEO). The slower than expected growth is partly...