Top tips and tricks from road warriors

A majority of connected road warriors1 (69%) admit to always bringing their mobile computing device on vacation, and nearly one in three (32%) indicate it makes them nervous to travel without it. A new Intel survey conducted by YouGov reveals that road warriors demand...

Grant beneficiaries hit with scam

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is concerned by the increasing number of scams and false information targeting beneficiaries of social grants. The latest false information being circulated is that SASSA offices will be closed during the December month...

Car sales to peak in 2022 as robotaxis take off

Canalys predicts that 93,7-million cars will be sold worldwide in 2017, up just 1,7% on 2016. It expects low single-digit percentage sales volume growth to continue for the next five years, peaking at 99-million cars sold in 2022. Annual global sales will then decline...

Smartphone Top 5 show strong growth

Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 383-million units in the third quarter of 2017, a 3% increase over the same period in 2016, according to Gartner. All of the top five smartphone vendors achieved double-digit growth apart from Apple, which achieved a...

Connected care solutions on the rise

A new report from IoT analysts Berg Insight says around 5,9-million people in Europe were using connected care solutions at the end of 2016. The figure refers to users of traditional telecare, next-generation telecare and telehealth solutions in the EU28+2 countries....

Smartwatches to dominate wearables market

The US wearables market will grow from $4,8-billion in 2016 to $9-billion in 2022, representing a compound annual growth rate of 9% from 2017 to 2022, according to new research from Forrester. The research group says this will translate to annual market revenue of...