Jan 9, 2018
Investors with an interest in education have called on Apple to help guide young peoples’ device usage. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) and JANA Partners sent an open letter to the technology vendor, laying out their concerns and...
Jan 9, 2018
South Africa has been ranked 81 out of 180 countries in the 2017 Index of Economic Freedom, with an overall economic freedom score of 62.3, making it a “moderately free” economy. The score is up by 0.4 points from 2016 when it scored 61.9. Released by the...
Jan 9, 2018
IBM inventors received a record 9 043 patents in 2017, marking the company’s 25th consecutive year of US patent leadership and crossing the 100 000-patent milestone. The new patents were granted to a diverse group of more than 8 500 IBM researchers, engineers,...
Jan 9, 2018
A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight estimates that the global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 56% during 2017 to reach 647,5-million. The accelerating growth is expected to take the global installed base to almost 1-billion at...
Jan 8, 2018
MTN is conducting the first live 5G trial in Africa. The indoor trial is running from today at MTN’s Johannesburg head office, with an outdoor trial planned for later in the year. A commercial pilot is expected to start in about 2019 or 2020. Ericsson is the...
Jan 8, 2018
Intel has launched its new 8th Gen Intel Core processor with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics, designed for gamers, content creators, and virtual and mixed reality users. The new processor is optimised for small form factors like 2-in-1s, thin and light notebooks, and mini...
