Windows 11 upgrades pushed global PC shipment growth over 9% in 2025

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 71,5-million units in the fourth quarter of 2025, a 9,3% increase from the fourth quarter of 2024, according to preliminary results by Gartner. For the full year, worldwide PC shipments totaled more than 270-million units, a 9,1%...

They don’t know how, but execs believe AI will drive business growth

New research from the IBM Institute for Business Value reveals that nearly eight in 10 (79%) surveyed executives expect AI will significantly contribute to their revenue by 2030 – up from 40% today. But few (24%) have a clear view of where that revenue will come from....

Cedarberg reveals tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start life

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global mass extinction. The team, led by Dr Claire Browning, an Honorary...

CEOs take the lead as AI investment gains pace

Corporate AI investment is growing significantly and it’s not about to slow down. Companies are planning to double their spending on the technology in 2026, accounting for about 1,7% of revenues - more than twice the increase for 2025. Meanwhile, CEOs are rolling up...

First snapshot of polar heat emissions

NASA’s newest climate mission has started collecting data on the amount of heat in the form of far-infrared radiation that the Arctic and Antarctic environments emit to space. The measurements by the Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-Infrared Experiment (Prefire) are...

Competition Commission approves sale of Telkom masts and towers

An important milestone has been reached in the proposed disposal of Telkom’s masts and towers business. The South African Competition Commission, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa, has approved the disposal of the assets housed in the Swiftnet business, subject...

Half of executives are experiencing a ‘resiliency gap’

Despite three straight years of ongoing disruption and economic ambiguity, when it comes to resiliency, 53% of executives admit their company is not where it should be, according to new research by SAS. The analytics company’s latest report - Resiliency Rules...

Spend on IT and business services proves resilient

Global IT and business services revenue is expected to grow (in constant currency) from $1,13-trillion in 2022 to $1,2-trillion in 2023, or 5,7% YoY, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker. In nominal dollar denominated revenue based on...

Zero-day in Windows used in Nokoyawa ransomware attacks

In February, Kaspersky experts discovered an attack using zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Common Log File System (CLFS) whereby a cybercriminal group used an exploit developed for different versions and builds of Windows OS - including Windows 11 - and...

Dispelling myths in the lithium supply chain

Rare earth minerals finds in India and falling prices could inform future lithium demand, but one should never underestimate the resilience of the supply chain. That’s the view of Oliver Chapman, CEO of supply chain specialist OCI, who says: ““Supply chains adjust,...

New MD for Vertiv Africa

Digital infrastructure specialist Vertiv has appointed its former South East Africa regional director, Wojtek Piorko, as its new MD for Africa with immediate effect. Piorko takes over the reins on the continent from Pierre Havenga who will be leaving the company at...

Economic activity deteriorates again in March

South Africa’s economic activity, measured in the monthly BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI), declined on a monthly and quarterly basis in March and reached its lowest point in almost two years. “The BETI reached an index level of 130,2, the lowest...

ISPA announces Inspires 2023 winners

The Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa (ISPA) has announced the recipients of its Inspires 2023 award - Thembelihle Mzobe, a 24-year-old Durban University of Technology graduate with a Diploma in ICT business analysis;  and Mduduzi Shangase who is...

SA companies unprepared for today’s cybersecurity risks

A mere 19% of organisations in South Africa have the “mature” level of readiness needed to be resilient against today’s modern cybersecurity risks, according to Cisco’s first-ever Cybersecurity Readiness Index. The index has been developed against the backdrop of a...

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Nokia completes Unium acquisition

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One Channel scoops FlowCentric award

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SA Florist helps transform township businesses

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How tech will shape the world in 2018

A lot can happen in a year. And when that year is 2018, a year in which we stand on the threshold of an exponential future driven by technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, IoT and blockchain, the world may look very different by the end of it than it...

Automation on the back of digitalisation is big

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SMME IoT, SqwidNet aim to connect 1m devices

Ecosystem management solutions and IoT strategy provider SMME IoT has signed a channel partnership agreement with SqwidNet to connect 1-million devices within the next three to five years in South Africa. The partnership opens up excellent opportunities for SqwidNet...

Cabinet takes stand on security

The Government of Egypt is setting up a specialised digital forensic lab for intellectual property (IP) as part of its enforcement schemes of combating software piracy. The new lab, the first of its kind in the MENA region, is mainly designed to resolve business...

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