Jan 20, 2020
The smart home market in Europe continued to grow in the third quarter of 2019, reaching almost 23,8-million units, an increase of 18,1% compared to the same quarter in the previous year. This is according to IDC which says that between July and September, more than...
Jan 20, 2020
Two inaugural reports from IDC indicate that quantum computing services will play an important role in banks’ infrastructure arsenal going forward, delivered through cloud services. The research group says that this initial research will help IT leaders within...
Jan 20, 2020
Science fiction often imagines our future on Mars and other planets as run by machines, with metallic cities and flying cars rising above dunes of red sand. But the reality may be even stranger – and “greener”. Instead of habitats made of metal and...
Jan 17, 2020
Google South Africa has appointed former Ogilvy SA chief executive Alistair Mokoena as its new country director. He will take up the position in April and oversee the commercial business for Google SA. Google Africa director Nitin Gajria says the company is excited to...
Jan 17, 2020
Microsoft has announced an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by...
Jan 17, 2020
Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments – including public and private cloud – declined in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19). This was against the backdrop of the...