Connectivity vital for SA diversity

Connectivity vital for SA diversity

With millions of South Africans still unable to connect to the Internet, costs across the board – from data fees to devices – need to come down. This is the word from Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, minister of communications, telecommunications and postal services, speaking...

Special feature: the data centre’s role in transformation

The data centre has gone from top of the CIO’s priorities, to the back-burner – but it’s back in the spotlight as data and the data centre has become central to business survival.   Digital transformation spending to hit $2trn by 2022 Worldwide spending on the...

Finance departments lead in tech adoption

A majority of finance departments expect to deploy one of several top emerging technologies by 2020, according to a worldwide survey of more than 400 organisations by Gartner. “More than a quarter of organizations surveyed expect to deploy some form of...

Scootersharing fleet to reach 2,6m in 2023

The scootersharing fleet is forecasted to grow from 14 400 vehicles worldwide in 2017 to more than 2,6-million vehicles in 2023. Market research report by IoT analyst firm Berg Insight indicates that the market today consists of traditional sit-down electric scooters...

AR/VR spending to top $20bn

Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to be nearly $20,4-billion in 2019, an increase of 68.8% over the $12,1-billion International Data Corporation (IDC) expects will be spent this year. The latest update to IDC’s...

Japan could halt Huawei, ZTE procurement

Huawei’s global woes continue to intensify this week. Hot on the heels of Canada’s arrest of the company’s chief technology officer, reports are now swirling that the Japanese government plans to stop purchases of Huawei equipment, along with that of...