PC shipments tank as memory crunch bites

Worldwide PC shipments fell 4,9% year-over-year in Q2 2026 to 68,2-million units, according to IDC — the first decline after nine consecutive quarters of growth. A persistent memory chip shortage drove the reversal, pushing vendors to pull inventory forward as far as...

AI, cross-border trade reshape e-commerce in SA

AI could soon choose what we buy, sustainability has shifted from nice-to-have to non-negotiable, and second-hand shopping is rapidly becoming mainstream, according to DHL’s E-Commerce Trends Report 2026. Based on survey findings from 29 000 online shoppers and 5 800...

How air transport industry plans to move 10bn passengers a year

It really sounds like a frequent flyer’s dream: Borders cleared in 10 seconds; weather delays cut by 65%; lost luggage down 90%; AI continually driving efficiency. But all this is becoming reality, says the SITA Impact Report 2025, documenting a year of customer-led...

Euclid space telescope marks a milestone in cosmic history

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has discovered 31 of the most ancient quasars ever found - and two of these giant and dazzling galaxy cores, powered by gargantuan black holes, are the earliest quasars yet observed in cosmic history. They shone with...

More threats to software supply chains

Kaspersky reports that, by the end of 2024, a total of 14 000 malicious packages were found in open-source projects, a 48% increase compared to the end of 2023. A total of 42-million versions of open-source packages were examined by Kaspersky during 2024 in search for...

What needs to change to empower MSMEs

With high unemployment remaining one of South Africa’s most urgent challenges, the role of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in scaling job creation and stimulating inclusive economic growth has never been more critical. Yet, as Finfind’s SA MSME Access to...

Watch the solar eclipse

Yesterday, 8 April 2024, parts of Northern Mexico and the US experienced a total solar eclipse. You can see the phenomenon here.

Nvidia boosts robotics with Project GR00T

Nvidia has announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots which is designed to further its work driving breakthroughs in robotics and embodied AI. As part of the initiative, the company also unveiled a new computer, Jetson Thor, for...

Nvidia ushers in a new era of computing with Blackwell

Aimed at powering a new era of computing, Nvidia has launched its Blackwell platform which it says will enable organisations everywhere to build and run realtime generative AI (GenAI) on trillion-parameter large language models (LLMs) at up to 25-times less cost and...

Canal+ makes a firm offer for Multichoice

Multichoice and French media company Canal+ have reached an agreement by which Canal+ would acquire the Multichoice group, offering shareholders R125.00 per share - a 66,6% premium over the R75.00 closing price on 1 February 2024. The announcement constitutes a firm...

EdTech transforming into $350bn industry

The global education technology (edtech) market is expected to reach $348,41-billion by 2030 - growing at a CAGR of 13,4% from 2024 to 2030 - according to a new report by Grand View Research. The process of learning is evolving gradually in line with advances in...

Beware of deepfakes in the age of AI

The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies in recent years is providing threat actors with sophisticated new tools to perpetrate their attacks, says Kaspersky. One of these are deepfakes which include generated human-like...

Africa Data Centres, DPA SA break ground on Free State solar farm

Africa Data Centres (ADC) has broken ground on the construction of a solar farm in the Free State in collaboration with DPA Southern Africa. The project is a component of the 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) inked in March 2023 with DPA Southern Africa, a joint...

Nvidia looks to advance wireless communications with AI

Nvidia has unveiled a 6G research platform that empowers researchers with a novel approach to develop the next phase of wireless technology, offering them a comprehensive suite to advance AI for radio access network (RAN) technology. The Nvidia 6G Research Cloud...

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Xerox positioned as a Quocirca leader

Xerox has been positioned as a Leader in the fourth consecutive Quocirca Channels to Managed Print Services. The report states: "Xerox has long led the market by virtue of a scalable, cloud-based MPS platform and an expanded ConnectKey workflow solution portfolio."...

Westcon-Comstor to distribute Check Point Software

Westcon-Comstor Sub-Saharan Africa has been appointed as a Check Point distributor for the sub-Saharan African region. The appointment highlights further expansion of the Westcon-Comstor Security Solutions portfolio, providing its resellers across sub-Saharan Africa...

Automating supply chain innovation

Refining the last mile journey with the potential of technology, writes David Slotow, CEO of Trackmatic Automation offers the supply chain significant advantages across efficiency, capability and reducing complexity. It can take on the tedium while opening up...

Reduce the attack surface to ward off security risks

As industry marches to a digital and mobile first approach to technology, we are running the risk of greatly enhancing the attack surface for cyber-criminals, making it more important than ever to ensure day-to-day apps are secure. This is according to Thiani Naicker,...

MainOne expands data centre in Ghana

MainOne has announced the expansion of its data centre brand, MDXi, into Accra Ghana, in line with its ongoing West African expansion plans. The company's MDXi subsidiary, the largest commercial data centre services provider in West Africa, is extending its imprint...

Trend Micro named a leader in endpoint security

Trend Micro has been cited as a leader with the second-highest score in the current offering category in The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Security Suites, Q2 2019 report. In reference to Trend Micro, Forrester remarked that: "[Their] endpoint security offerings span the...

Independent recognition for Check Point

Check Point Software Technologies has been recognized as a "Leader" in Forrester's newly-published report, "The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Security Suites, Q3 2019". For this report, Forrester's assessment evaluated 15 endpoint security providers and their products,...

Executive insights for reducing security complexity

Mimecast has announced the availability of Decluttering Your Security Environment, the latest e-book from the Cyber Resilience Think Tank (CR Think Tank). The e-book is designed to provide expert insight and prescriptive advice to global industry influencers on how...

Working towards better data management

Big data is seeing organisations becoming more mindful of aligning their data management practices with newer paradigms such as data lakes, elastic and cluster computing, and realtime data. As such, the cloud provides an environment capable of managing the volume and...

New SearchWorks update aids KYC

Eleven years since its initial launch of SearchWorks, fintech company e4 says that the web-based search application service has continued to prove itself as a vital administrative tool. As a key service to professionals across a multitude of industry sectors, e4 has...

Developer – Gauteng Centurion

Top employer seeks qualified Developer with a minimum of 3years solid work experience to be responsible for delivery on strategic projects; best practice testing; system maintenance and enhancment as well as support and ensuring that best practice development...

Test Analyst

We're looking for a Test Analyst to join our QA team and work closely with the business analysts, developers, and project managers in different delivery streams.What you'll do:All manual testing activities during all phases of the SDLC from analysing business...

Test Analyst – Western Cape Cape Town

We're looking for a Test Analyst to join our QA team and work closely with the business analysts, developers, and project managers in different delivery streams.What you'll do:All manual testing activities during all phases of the SDLC from analysing business...

Data Engineer

To collect and validate business information (which can then be used by data scientists and business stakeholders).To design and implement data models and architectures that enable business stakeholders to gain insights from large-scale datasets.To design and develop...

Data Engineer – Gauteng Randburg

To collect and validate business information (which can then be used by data scientists and business stakeholders).To design and implement data models and architectures that enable business stakeholders to gain insights from large-scale datasets.To design and develop...

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