Apr 11, 2013
The worldwide PC market saw its steepest decline ever in the first quarter of 2013, the fourth quarter of year-on-year shipment declines. Worldwide PC shipments totalled 76,3-million units in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), down -13,9% compared to the same quarter...
Apr 11, 2013
Despite efforts in the past decade to improve information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, there remains a new digital divide in how countries harness ICT to deliver competitiveness and well-being. This is according to the...
Apr 11, 2013
Threats posed by the Bitcoin malware go well beyond initially-reported Skype and Bitcoin mining. And about 350 000 users are at risk, having unwittingly downloaded the malware through Skype and Gtalk. This is according to Cyberoam’s Threat Research Labs (CTRL), which...
Apr 11, 2013
Significant shifts will occur in the customer relationship management (CRM) market in the next two years. Gartner predicts mobile CRM apps available for download on app stores will grow to over 1 200 by 2014 from over 200 in 2012. More than 50% of total CRM software...
Apr 11, 2013
By 2015, between 34% and 42% of large enterprises will seriously consider procuring unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications as a premise-based, but managed, service. While businesses should not ignore cloud options – particularly as more become...
Apr 11, 2013
Trading conditions continued to deteriorate and the growth in retail sales volumes slowed further during the first quarter of 2013, according to results from the latest Ernst & Young/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Retail survey. Derek Engelbrecht, retail and...
