Double-digit growth forecast for wearables

The worldwide market for wearable devices, now inclusive of wireless headphones with smart assistants, is forecast to grow 15,3% over the previous year to 198,5-million units by the end of 2019, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...

Beware of rogue adware SimBad

Checkpoint Mobile Researchers have discovered a new Adware campaign on the Google Play Store, which it has dubbed “SimBad” due to the fact that a large portion of the infected applications are simulator games. This particular strain of adware was found in...

Deregulating the economy a matter of urgency

Mpiyakhe Dhlamini, a data science researcher at the Free Market Foundation, offers his analysis on the issue of deregulation. Small business is widely acknowledged as the engine of economic growth in both developing and developed economies. The South African...

R12,8bn from 22m eWallet transactions

FNB has revealed that consumers have sent over R12,8-billion worth of eWallet funds from 22-million eWallet transactions processed between July and December 2018. This is a 25% year on year increase in the value of funds that consumers have sent via eWallet. In...

Airport asset tracking systems to hit 0,4m

Berg Insight has found that that the global installed base of active airport asset tracking systems was less than 0,2-million units in 2018. This includes all airport asset tracking systems deployed for various motorised ground support equipment (GSE), non-motorised...
First exascale supercomputer is on the cards

First exascale supercomputer is on the cards

Intel and the US Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the US. The contract is valued at more than $500-million and will be delivered to Argonne National Laboratory by Intel and sub-contractor Cray in...