PC shipments fall to Q1 2023 levels

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 55,4-million units in the third quarter of 2026 – down 22,4% from the third quarter of 2025 – according to preliminary results from Gartner. “The impact of higher memory and storage costs is now fully reflected in PC...

IBM a step closer to building a fault-tolerant quantum computer

IBM has been selected for Stage C, the third phase of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) led by DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – which will advance it through DARPA’s verification process in which independent experts...
Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...
President Ntuli to leave HPE

President Ntuli to leave HPE

By Kathy Gibson – President Ntuli has resigned as member of the board and MD of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) in South Africa. “We can confirm that, after 14 years with HPE, President Ntuli has decided to take a career break as he considers the next chapter...
PC market plunges by 20% as pull-in hangover, supply constraints bite

PC market plunges by 20% as pull-in hangover, supply constraints bite

Worldwide PC shipments fell 20,1% year over year in Q3 2026 to 62.7 million units, according to preliminary results from IDC Research (IDC), the second consecutive decline and a deeper one than the 3,8% drop in Q2. Shipments also slipped 9,1% sequentially, upending...

Education minister aims to widen matric focus

Education minister Siviwe Gwarube wants to move the nation’s focus away from the matric pass rate number to focus on a wider range of outcomes. She says the country has a “collective obsession” with the matric pass rate, and the quality of our basic education system...