Tech support burden causes family rifts

Technology has transformed how we live our lives, but it has come at more than just a financial cost for many of us. A new global Kaspersky survey has found that more than a third (35%) of over 55s would struggle with daily technology challenges if it wasn’t for...

MEA PC market continues to struggle

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, declined 13,4% year on year in Q1 2019, according to the latest insights from IDC. The global technology research and...

How technology changes our brains

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London – There’s a belief that the fourth industrial revolution is coming – but we should acknowledge that it is here already. “There is an idea that we are preparing for it, but this implies we can put it off,”...

Strong growth in cellular IoT modules

Global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 16% in 2018 to a new record level of 221-million, according to research group Berg Insight. Annual revenues grew faster at 24%, reversing the previous trend of decreasing average module prices. The 3GPP standards for...

Making retirement great again

The 2019 Sanlam Benchmark research – South Africa’s most comprehensive and respected retirement industry study – contains the country’s first analysis of how the default regulations were implemented by retirement funds. David Gluckman, head of...

Technology at the core of Eastern Cape education vision

Kathy Gibson is at the E-Learning Summit in East London – The Eastern Cape has a clear vision to use IT and e-learning to help it meet its education goals. Mfanawethu Cele, CES: e-learning at the Eastern Cape Department of Education, stresses that the EC DoE aims to...