Financial services spend hits $114bn

According to a new IDC Financial Services Insights Perspective, Worldwide Financial Services 3rd Platform IT Spend 2014-2019 – Opportunities Abound, the financial services industry spent $114-billion worldwide on mobility, cloud, and big data and analytics (BDA)...

Skills key to Africa’s development

With a high unemployment rate, Africa is sitting on a largely untapped pool of resources that has the potential to drive economic growth. The problem, says Pitso Kekana, head of public affairs and corporate citizenship for Samsung Africa RHQ, lies in both the lack of...

1bn cellular M2M subscribers by 2022

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the global number of cellular M2M subscribers increased by 23% during 2015 to reach 265,2-million at the end of the year. Over the next five years, the installed base of cellular M2M devices is...

Huawei hits 100m smartphones in 2015

The Huawei Consumer Business Group shipped more than 100-million smartphones worldwide in 2015. Over the last five years, shipments of Huawei’s smartphones have increased more than 3 000%, from 3-million in 2010 to 100-million in 2015. This year’s performance...

Thin client market in decline

The global thin and terminal client market deteriorated during the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), declining -6,7% year over year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker. Shipments continued to be...
Earth rising: new NASA image

Earth rising: new NASA image

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon. “The image is simply stunning,” says Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for LRO at NASA’s...