Alphabet’s lifetime revenues break $2trn mark
The parent company of Google and YouTube - Alphabet - has seen its lifetime revenues hit an astounding $2,082-trillion, according to Stocklytics.com. "Alphabet initially relied heavily on search engine advertising for its revenue," says Stocklytics.com financial...
Citizen scientists spot object moving a million miles per hour
Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way's gravity and shoot into intergalactic space....
Strong Q4 growth fails to fuel overall peripherals market
The worldwide hardcopy peripherals market saw overall shipments grow 11,6% year-over-year (YoY) to nearly 25-million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Hardcopy Peripherals Tracker. Shipment value during the quarter...
Most major firms fail to disclose operational emission targets
New research from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Microsoft indicates that a massive 84% of major global companies have yet to set public science-based targets to reduce direct operational emissions from their supply chains - and that only 11% have actually...
US race for digital dollar fuels case for Bitcoin
With the US government's work on a potential digital dollar accelerating - meaning a digital greenback could soon be a reality in the US - the case for Bitcoin becomes "significantly stronger", according to deVere Group CEO and founder, Nigel Green. Green says his...
Trends influencing FP&A and controller functions in finance
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and controllership leaders need to have a plan to harness the ways digital acceleration is disrupting legacy processes in their functions, says Gartner. "We're seeing widespread acceptance among finance leaders that...
This is why SA companies would outsource security
Kaspersky's annual IT Security Economics report reveals that the complexity of cybersecurity solutions forced companies to outsource some functions to external infosec providers: they have more relevant expertise and can manage the technologies more efficiently than...
Instant payment transactions to exceed 235bn by 2027
A study from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumer instant payments will exceed 235-billion in 2027; up from 74-billion in 2023. This growth of 218% will be driven by lower merchant acceptance costs when compared to traditional card schemes. This is...
This is what an asteroid looks like when hit with a spacecraft
Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1 200-pound NASA spacecraft called DART on 26 September 2022. The primary objective of DART, which...
Least developed countries face deepening digital divide
The digital connectivity divide separating the globe's least developed countries (LDCs) from the world as a whole shows no sign of narrowing. In fact, it is widening on key factors, according to ITU's Facts and Figures: Focus on Least Developed Countries. While the...
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Alternative wireless connections
In certain instances it is not possible to connect network components utilised in industry with a fibre connection. Therefore alternative wireless connections must be made available. "When wireless connections are needed for the inter-networking of devices ie. the...
Quantum cryptography will be ultra-secure
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Westcon-Comstor is Cisco’s Africa Distributor of the year
Westcon-Comstor was awarded the title as Africa Distributor of the Year (2017) at the recent Cisco Partner Summit held in Dallas Texas this month. The award recognises the efforts made by the Comstor arm of the company, through the execution of innovation, leadership...
Hit the ground running in the new year
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Online short courses provide practical ICT skills
South Africans seeking to meet growing corporate demand for high-end and specialist IT skills could increase their employability by combining world class online short courses with practical experience, instead of committing to years at a college or university. This is...
Shopping online is a big deal
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Cloud archiving versus tape
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Making IoT a reality in Africa
Although the Internet of Things (IoT) is still in the early stages in Africa, it is starting to gain traction in Africa across different verticals. The maturity level varies between different markets, with some in the exploring phase and others with much more concrete...
Equipping Gen Z for the 4th Industrial Revolution
Generation Z -- those born between 1996 and the present -- are watching less television than their predecessors. Instead they are spending all that free time on their phones - in fact, they are spending over 15 hours a week on their smartphones, which are a mode of...
AData debuts XPG Storm RGB M.2 2280
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