Clicks and bricks to tempt SA shoppers

Thinking in terms of bricks versus clicks is outdated – bricks-and-clicks is the current and future retail reality; especially in emerging markets, including South Africa. This is the word from Nielsen’s new global research “What’s in-store for online grocery...

Spam botnet mailings post a decline

The world’s largest spam botnet, Necurs, demonstrated a relative decline in its fraudulent mailshot traffic during the first quarter of 2017. According to Kaspersky Lab’s “Spam and phishing in Q1 2017” report, in December 2016, Kaspersky Lab’s spam traps...

Intel debuts new Xeon processor family

The new Intel Xeon Processor Scalable family, dubbed as the biggest platform advancement of the decade, is the new foundation for secure, agile, multi-cloud data centres. The processor family is architected for workload-optimised performance and hardware-enhanced...

Huawei, Samsung lead smartphone boom

The entry level smartphone market has experienced a significant spike since mid-2016, due largely to the affordability of devices that offer advanced features and capabilities. This is according to statistics released by local online cellular contract comparison...

Connectivity to drive African education

Information and communication technologies (ICT), and the Internet in particular, can have a transformative effect on education in Africa, says a report launched today by the Internet Society. At the Africa Regional Internet and Development Dialogue in Kigali, Rwanda,...

Telecoms mergers, acquisitions to ramp up

African mobile telecoms operators, infrastructure owners and service providers are ramping up investment and targeting acquisitions across the region to meet the surge in demand for connectivity, according to a telecom transaction adviser. “The African TMT vista...