Jan 16, 2020
Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2019 were the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Globally, 2019 temperatures were second only...
Jan 16, 2020
Cyber-security attacks are once again the top risk faced by South African businesses, according to the ninth Allianz Risk Barometer 2020. Cyber incidents (46% of responses) ranks as the most important business risk in South Africa for the fourth time since the launch...
Jan 16, 2020
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,9-trillion in 2020, an increase of 3,4% from 2019, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Global IT spending is expected to cross into $4-trillion territory next year. “Although political uncertainties pushed...
Jan 16, 2020
The vast majority of retailers (87,5%) have identified hybrid cloud as the ideal IT operating model. These are among the retail industry findings of Nutanix’s second Enterprise Cloud Index Report, measuring retailers’ plans for adopting private, hybrid and...
Jan 16, 2020
On 14 January Google published a blog post announcing its acquisition of Pointy, a start-up based in Dublin, Ireland, that lets bricks-and-mortar stores make their products discoverable online. GlobalData technology editor Lucy Ingham comments: “The deal, which...
Jan 16, 2020
The strongest chess players have been found to display almost zero programming skills. The is the unexpected finding from a survey of the world’s strongest chess players, conducted by World Chess, the organiser of the FIDE Grand Prix Series, and software...
