Healthy Q4 growth drives Ethernet switching

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) produced revenues of $5,8-billion in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15), an increase of 1% year over year and an increase of 7,6% quarter over quarter. Meanwhile, the worldwide total enterprise and service provider...

Online degree comes to Joburg

Ireland’s Digital Skills Academy has opened an international office in Johannesburg as the organisation targets professionals in South Africa to participate in the world’s first online degree in integrated digital technology, business and design. The aim...
Brain drain real for SA engineers

Brain drain real for SA engineers

South Africa’s lack of engineering skills is once again under the spotlight, with the ongoing “brain drain” a challenge for the country.

Obi has learnt from the best

By Mark Davison in San Francisco – With the launch of the Obi Worldphone SF1 and SJ1.5, the company has set the cat among the pigeons in the smartphone world with devices offering the features of a $700  smartphone, but at a price point of $199. So just how do...

Apple debuts in wearables at number 2

In its first appearance in the wearables market, Apple finds itself within striking distance of the established market leader, Fitbit. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, Apple shipped a total of...

Facebook hits 1bn users in one day

More than 1-billion people – or one-seventh of the planet’s population – used Facebook in one day. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media site reached the milestone of 1-billion people using the social network in a single day.