Connected wearables to reach 262m by 2021

Shipments of connected wearables reached 96,5-million in 2016, up from 75,1-million devices in the previous year, says Berg Insight. Growing at a CAGR of 22,2%, total shipments of smartwatches, smart glasses, fitness & activity trackers, people monitoring &...

Healthy growth for public-display

In contrast to stable or declining consumer TV sales, worldwide public-display revenues are forecast to reach a healthy CAGR of 18,2% from 2016 to 2021, according to IHS Markit. The global public display market, which includes public-display monitors and...

FibreCo expands its network

ADVA Optical Networking has been selected as the technology partner of FibreCo Telecommunications to enable the fibre network operator to roll out high-bandwidth services across South Africa. FibreCo, one of the country’s leading communication service providers,...

Tuition-free varsity for South Africans

University of the People, the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, accredited US online university, officially opened its new academic year for more than 400 South African students last week. UoPeople says it continues to see a growing increase in the numbers...
IBM,MIT create AI lab

IBM,MIT create AI lab

IBM and MIT have announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240-million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT. The lab will carry out fundamental artificial intelligence (AI) research and seek to propel scientific breakthroughs...

Enabling the cloud with networking fabric

Kathy Gibson at Huawei Connect in Shanghai — Organisations are looking to cloud computing as their digital transformation enabler, but there is still a tremendous amount of innovation taking place lower down the stack at the network level. That’s the word...