5% decline in tablet shipments

The worldwide tablet market declined 5% year over year during the second quarter of 2019 (2Q19) as global shipments fell to 32,2-million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Apple led...

Flowing Antarctic ice mapped more accurately

Far more accurate than any previous map, a new representation of glacier flows in Antarctica opens the door to an improved understanding of the vast continent and the future pace of sea level rise. To create the new map, researchers at the University of California and...

Why good leaders fail

Leadership development would be far simpler to manage if leadership were a singular, finite competency or set of competencies that applied in all situations across the organisation. However, the fact remains that this is not the reality with which we live and work....

IBM goes all-in with Red Hat, cloud

IBM has transformed its software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimised it to run on Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical applications once and run them on all leading public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform,...

Capital One hack could be the tip of the iceberg

The data breach of US bank Capital One that this week exposed the personal data of more than 100-million US customers may be only the start of a series of breach notifications from other organisations. The potential victims could include UK-based telecoms carrier...

Double-digit growth forecast for IoT spend

Spending on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is set to top $8,47-billion this year, according to the latest forecast from global technology research and consulting firm International Data Corporation (IDC). A recent update to...