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...

SA artists double Spotify earnings

Spotify's latest Loud & Clear transparency report has unveiled extraordinary growth in the South African music industry, with local artists generating nearly R400-million in royalties in 2024 on Spotify alone  - more than doubling their earnings since 2022. This...

Call to correct Africa’s map distortion

For centuries, the Mercator map - one of the most widely used world maps - has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million square kilometers - large enough to fit the US, China, India and most...

VMware by Broadcom simplifies lineup, switches to subscriptions

VMware by Broadcom announced a simplified product portfolio, while transitioning from a perpetual to a subscription model. Krish Prasad, senior vice-president and GM of the VMware Cloud Foundation Division, says that, in terms of product simplification, the VMware...

GenAI-powered skills development to drive $1trn in productivity gains

In a business landscape where productivity and revenue growth stand at the forefront of organisational priorities, the role of generative AI (GenAI) is taking centre stage. International Data Corporation (IDC) foresees a major paradigm shift taking place, with 35% of...

GenAI startups raise record sums

Startup funding has been subdued in 2023 with $224-billion in total venture capital funding (as of 8 December 2023) falling 65% since 2021 when startups raised a record $655-billion. But the story is very different for Generative AI (GenAI) startups, which have raised...

Intel demonstrates next-generation transistor scaling

Intel has unveiled technical breakthroughs that maintain a pipeline for the company's future process roadmap, underscoring the continuation and evolution of Moore's Law. At the 2023 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Intel researchers showcased...

AMD showcases AI solutions from data centre to PCs

At its Advancing AI event this week, AMD was joined by Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro, Arista, Broadcom and Cisco to showcase how they are working with AMD to deliver advanced AI solutions spanning from cloud to enterprise and PCs....

Africa’s Top 100 business opportunities to watch in 2024

Despite rising food and fuel costs, weakening currencies, climate change effects, security threats, political instability, rolling power cuts, infrastructure limitations, and several economic and social challenges, Africa will be one of the fastest-growing global...

Key actions for I&O leaders to navigate economic headwinds

In the face of continued economic headwinds, only 12% of infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders rate their function's performance as exceeding CIO expectations, according to a new Gartner survey. "I&O leaders must support senior leadership by proactively...

Security violations by staff do as much harm as hacking

Employee violations of an organisation's information security policies are as dangerous as external hacker attacks according to a recent study from Kaspersky. In the last two years, 19% of cyber incidents in businesses in South Africa occurred due to employees...

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Veritas NetBackup certified for protecting Docker containers

Veritas Technologies has announced that NetBackup 8.1.2 has received certification for protecting Docker container-based workloads. Veritas' customers will be able to protect their containerised data and other legacy or modern workloads like SAP Hana, Hadoop or...

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In spite of bank fees accounting for a fraction of the average consumer's income, individuals can still do much more to reduce their cost of banking. This is according to Ancley Jacobs, CEO of FNB Consumer Core Banking, who says smart technology has been a game...

Commvault extends application and cloud scalability

Commvault has announced that its IntelliSnap snapshot technology has been tested and validated to work with Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged systems to protect application workloads, file systems and virtual machines (VMs) without the need for third party tools,...

Ericsson, Qualcomm complete 5G data call on 2.6 GHz band

Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have achieved a non-standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) data call on 2.6 GHz, adding a new frequency band to those successfully tested for commercial deployment. The bi-directional downlink and uplink data call was made at the...

ZTE, Heavy Reading release 5G transport white paper

ZTE has released the white paper "Meeting 5G Transport Requirements With FlexE" together with the consulting firm Heavy Reading. Based on the new trends of the 5G network architecture and the new requirements for the transport network, the white paper focuses on the...

Skyworth wins at CES 2019

At CES 2019, Skyworth was awarded 2018-2019 Global CE Brands TOP 50, 2018-2019 TOP 10 CE Brands, and 2018-2019 Global TV Brands TOP 10. Skyworth has also received a product award, the AI Smart Dual Ecosystem TV Experience Gold Award for 65S9A/XA9000. It supports both...

Gemalto advances global IoT connectivity

To meet booming global demand for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) IoT connectivity, Gemalto has announced a platform of innovative Cinterion IoT Modules based on the latest Qualcomm 9205 LTE IoT modem. The new solution is designed to support global LTE M and NB IoT...

Obsidian confirms platinum sponsorship of DevConf ZA 2019

Open source technology and services Obsidian Systems has confirmed its Platinum Sponsorship of the DevConf ZA event in Cape Town on 26 March 2019 and in Johannesburg on 28 March 2019. The community-driven and developer focused DevConf ZA has been organised to provide...

Fujitsu reduces investment risk for service providers

With IT-as-a-service becoming more and more popular, Fujitsu today introduces the financial solution uSCALE, providing service providers with cloud-like sourcing options to increase their agility in responding to quickly changing customer needs, while reducing their...

How to navigate the digital journey

Data is everywhere. Everything from smartphones to cars produce vast amounts of data every second. By Helmut Reisinger, CEO of Orange Business Services Each time we make a transaction, in store or online, we generate data. We post billions of photos on social media...

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