Sep 21, 2017
Africa is fast becoming the dumping ground for eWaste with a growing amount of computer equipment from western nations being found on toxic eWaste dumps throughout the continent, often being pulled apart by children as young as five. A computer monitor from a...
Sep 21, 2017
Despite challenging economic conditions, retail sales growth for July 2017 was the highest recorded for that month since 2015, according to the Mastercard SpendingPulse report, a macroeconomic report tracking retail sales. Nominal (not adjusting for price...
Sep 21, 2017
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $6,43-billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2017 (2Q17), an increase of 7,8% year over year, according to IDC. Meanwhile, the worldwide total enterprise and service provider (SP) router market recorded...
Sep 21, 2017
While more companies are investing in cybersecurity regardless of ROI (63% in 2017 compared to 56% in 2016), a new study from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has found that the average cost of a cybersecurity incident is growing. According to the report ‘IT...
Sep 20, 2017
Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – Technology has opened up a variety of ways to collaborate – but there’s not that much collaboration going on. Gartner analyst Jeffrey Mann points out that there are more choices available now than ever before from...
Sep 20, 2017
Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town – Over the last decade the macro-perspective of technology within organisations has changed radically. And this means CIOs who don’t change as well may find themselves redundant. In the past, IT did what it was...
