Future of self-service is customer-led automation

In order to cope with the avalanche of digital information and activities customers, like organisations, will increasingly turn to automation moving forward, says Gartner. “There is often a lot of discussion about how enterprises continue to invest in artificial...

New processors, innovation programme from Intel

Intel has made a sweeping set of product and technology announcements, including 10th Gen Intel Core processors, a new gaming processor with an all-core turbo of 5GhZ, and details about its Project Athena innovation programme. “No one wants to compromise; people...

Another challenging year ahead for smartphones

According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, global smartphone shipments will face another challenging year in 2019 with volumes forecast to decline 1,9% from 2018. This will mark the third consecutive year of market contraction driven by highly...

Realtek SDK exploits on SA devices on the rise from Egypt

ASERT’s IoT honeypot network, which continuously monitors known exploit vectors, says it has detected a spike in exploit attempts targeting the Realtek SDK miniigd SOAP vulnerability in consumer-based routers from the end of April 2019 until the first half of...

Enterprise WLAN market experiences moderate growth

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 6,9% year over year in the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), finishing at $2,4-billion. According to results published in IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly WLAN...

Strong growth for wearables in Q1

Global shipments of wearable devices reached 49,6-million units during the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), up 55,2% from the previous year according to data from the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. While wrist-worn wearables accounted for the...