Digitalisation a top CEO priority

CEOs have underlined that growth will be their top business priority for 2016, according to a recent survey by Gartner. The 2016 Gartner CEO and senior business executive survey found that despite indications that the global economy is struggling in early 2016, CEOs...

Smartphone top online sales in Q1

Smartphones have once again dominated sales from Orange’s online store in South Africa. The company has released statistics on the best-selling products in the first quarter of 2016. The top 10 products in 2016 Q1 were: * Wileyfox Swift * LG G2 Mini * Samsung...

Industrial PC market to stabilise in 2018

While the global market for industrial PCs has experienced ups and downs in recent years, it is forecast to pick up in 2016 and will start to stabilize in 2018. The key reason for the increase in short-term growth is an expected improvement in the outlook for process...

Cell C launches LTE-Advanced in SA

Cell C has announced the commercial availability of its next generation broadband technology, LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. LTE Advanced is the next major step in the evolution of our LTE network that will deliver customers faster data...

Spending on IoT security set to rocket

Worldwide spending on Internet of Things (IoT) security will reach $348-million in 2016, a 23,7% increase from 2015 spending of $281,5-million, according to Gartner. Spending on IoT security is expected to reach $547-million in 2018. Although overall spending will...
Data is not used effectively

Data is not used effectively

While digital marketing spend continues to grow, companies could be missing out on making full use of all the information at their disposal. This is according to James McCormick, Forrester principal analyst serving customer insight professionals, who says: “The...