MEA PC decline slows

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market experienced a 13.3% year-on-year decline in shipments in the second quarter of 2016 to total 2.9-million units, according to IDC, and while this is a continuation of a long-running tend, the overall decline seen in Q2 2016...

Dell Technologies to launch next week

Dell and EMC have announced that they intend to close the transaction to combine the two companies next Wednesday (7 September) and that Dell Technologies – the name of the new company – will begin operating immediately following that. The announcement...

Huge potential for intra-Africa trade

Despite an average annual growth in exports of 8.5% since 2010, trade between African regions remains low when compared to other parts of the world, according to The Africa Economic Outlook Report 2016. Intra-regional trade accounted for 16% of Africa’s total...

EOH establishes PoP in Amsterdam

Global network provider EOH Carrier Services has selected NewTelco SA as its service partner for the establishment of a new international Point of Presence (PoP) in Amsterdam. The selection was made following a decision to move one of the three PoPs already held by...
CEOs don’t get digitalisation

CEOs don’t get digitalisation

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Connect in Shanghai – Digitalisation is a reality and companies know they have to transform their businesses – but remarkably few of them understand how they will accomplish this move. Nigel Fenwick, vice-president and...

Moving towards the connected elevator

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Connect in Shanghai – Every time you get into an elevator, you are putting your life into the hands of a sophisticated piece of technology that you assume is well designed and maintained. More than 15-million elevators are being...