Connectivity key to SME success

Connectivity key to SME success

SMEs are learning from each other as they share ideas in a mobilised economy. These are some of the findings from the Future of Business Survey, and ongoing collaboration between Facebook, the OECD, and the World Bank. So far, almost 200 000 SMEs in 40 countries have...

Samsung’s Gear to lead smartphone VR

Competition in the high-end smartphone virtual reality (VR) market is heating up in 2017 with Google’s Daydream platform emerging to offer an alternative to the established market leader, Samsung’s Gear VR. According to the latest forecasts from business information...

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Thinking in terms of bricks versus clicks is outdated – bricks-and-clicks is the current and future retail reality; especially in emerging markets, including South Africa.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...