Chinese vendors lead smartphone surge

Global sales of smartphones to end users totalled 380-million units in the first quarter of 2017, a 9,1% increase over the first quarter of 2016, according to Gartner. Mobile phone buyers are spending more to get a better phone, resulting in the rise in average...

Poor controls doubled IoT DDoS attacks

The number of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attacks doubled from 3% to 6% in 2016, due to the lack of sufficient security controls in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Of all IoT attacks, 60% originated from Asia, 21% from EMEA...

Mobile could solve many of Africa’s issues

Mobile technology presents Africa with an unsurpassed opportunity to address its most stubborn development challenges: health, poverty, hunger and education. That’s the view of Vuyani Jarana, chief officer of Vodacom Business, who points out that while major...

Industry dominance and the privacy puzzle

Data has become the most valuable commodity in the world, just as oil was a century ago – and the concerns are similar, with most of the world’s data in the hands of a few giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. NordVPN examines the...

Huge Group reports better revenue, profits

The Huge Group has reported a revenue increase of 14% for the year ended 28 February 2017. Gross profit margins were up 18% from 41% to 48%, and EBITDA margin increased 42% from 15,1% to 21,4%. Operating profit was 84% higher, while the operating profit margin...

Digital Bank services from Deloitte

Deloitte has launched Digital Bank, a new services offering for banks to accelerate their digital transformation. It is based on the Salesforce Intelligent Customer Success Platform and uses the Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, to help banks provide tailored...